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What began as a deep, dark assassin's tale has turned into a comic with characters showing the depths and appearances of action figures. Batgirl has been a great surprise, for the publishers more than anyone, as it has confronted its Killing Joke legacy head on, and creating an intelligent work about someone trying to regain her[...]

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that Stephanie Brown had been replaced in the Smallville Season Eleven comic book series, before her appearance as

Spoiler, Robin, Batgirl… this character had played a number of roles in Batbooks over the years but fans believed she had repeatedly received short shrift from DC Comics And recently in the DC New 52, she vanished completely and was replaced as Batgirl by Barbara Gordon. Then, recently, it was announced that Stephanie Brown would be[...]

I hope Dan DiDio has a lot of maple syrup in the DC Offices. Fans of the DC character Stephanie Brown, whether as Spoiler, Robin or Batgirl, feel that they have been hard done by over the years Amateur crime fighter Spoiler, then Robin, then dead Robin, then revived Batgirl where she starred in her own[...]

Robin, Jason Todd, died, and Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, was crippled. But then these are comics Jason Todd comes back to life and now as Red Hood leads The Outlaws. And Barbara became Oracle, and then Batgirl again, her revival ascribed to a procedure in South Africa. And DC's Zero Month looks likely to revisit all those experiences[...]

BatgirlWatch: DC seem to have a Stephanie Brown Batgirl by mistake on their New 52 Batgirl info page… GunWatch: Cobie Smulders, who plays gun toting Canadian Robin in How I Met Your Mother is actually scared of guns… so had to do some prep for the movie…  She hired a guy who trains SWAT teams. "I was also[...]

I get to do some character stuff with Jeremiah Arkham." Kind of an odd correction there. Bob Harras moves so that Gail Simone can sit at the table. Batgirl: Gail gets a huge applause She praises the Night of the Owls concept "Barbara is starting to put her past behind her and she will be moving into[...]

On Friday, DC editorial types were stating that there were no more plans for Stephanie Brown, previously Robin, Batgirl and Spoiler in the old DCU, in current books. They were lying. Yesterday evening at ECCC, DC Comics announced that joining The Robins by Jeff Lemire in the expected Third Wave of New DC books towards the end[...]

This could very well be the best comic you read this week. The new issue of Batgirl makes it incredibly clear, if it wasn't so before, that this run is steeped in The Killing Joke In fact, if they called it After Killing Joke: Batgirl, they may even have increased sales Because that is totally where[...]

It would save a hell of a lot of arguments. Gail Simone continues to not only explore the ramifications of The Killing Joke on Barbara Gordon, Batgirl, but also explore the themes of the original, featuring the origin of Gretel, steeped in abuse, both violent and sexual The Killing Joke has the Joker try and replicate[...]

It was doing my head in, and I was reading too many comics that I just didn't like, which is never good for the soul. But if I was still doing them, then this scene from this week's Batgirl would certainly have made it in In the light of the Occupy protests, we've joked about the[...]

Batgirl #1 was more controversial before publication than afterwards Bringing back Barbara Gordon to the lead role, it took her out of the wheelchair and lost DC its most prominent disabled character However, this was mollified by Batgirl#1 being really good, and the transformation in Barbara being directly addressed, and her history very much being[...]

Batgirl, it seems, presented quite a challenge Here are a few examples from his website.       Rian Hughes is best known by many as the artist on Grant Morrison's Dare But these days his influence is all around us, a specialist in design, logos, and commenrcial illustration Which happens to include a[...]

Guess which ones they are? I talked about the new Batgirl earlier and how smart it is, so there's only one more thing I want to say about this issue Want to commit a crime in Gotham? There's an app for that. Batwoman is beautiful JH Williams III continues to provide us with a book just just[...]

Find reasons not to address it. But with DC's Batgirl-out-of-the-wheelchair, this comic seems to revel in rubbing the reader's nose in it To bring the issue up at every opportunity And to tease, repeatedly tease that Barbara gained the use of her legs by a "miracle" – and then only giving us the most meager of details, even[...]