It does look like its time to find if she was Oracle. Interesting Ed Benes is drawing this.
BATGIRL #0
Written by GAIL SIMONE
Art and cover by ED BENES
On sale SEPTEMBER 12 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
• How did Barbara first become Batgirl? What led to her to don the cape and cowl?
• Witness Barbara Gordon’s shocking injury and her inspiring drive to recover and walk again!
• Witness Barbara Gordon’s shocking injury and her inspiring drive to recover and walk again!
Ugh. Really DC? We need to go over that AGAIN?
I know it’s an important part of her past, but do we really need to see Joker shooting her AGAIN?
You liked Oracle? That’s too bad, she was either erased or heavily retconned.
You didn’t like Babs being fridged in TKJ? HERE’S ANOTHER FLASHBACK
On the bright side, we may finally know if she was Oracle once and for all. Since this is being released in September, it took what? A year?
You know what needed revisiting? The fridging of Barbra Gordon. Even better? Let’s add the skeevy porno-traced artwork of Mr. Benes. GREAT.
DC, are you actively trying to run off your female fanbase? I just want to know if I should leave before it gets worse.
Is everyone enjoying the 4-pack of udders on her torso? Great. Thanks for pointing that one out @ShivaeStudios
oh good
now i’m angry at specific people for specific things!
The solicit is incredibly misleading, unfortunately. The issue is not about TKJ at all.
Misleading my foot, I didn’t even THINK of The Killing Joke until reading all the above
rantscomments about it. Here’s a thought, guys: maybe it’s TKJ that’s being retconned out? Maybe DC finally listened to all the feminist commentators (not to mention ALAN MOORE HIMSELF) who thought it was exploitative? This has the potential to be a really good issue! OR, yes, it could be terrible and disrespectful, but we don’t actually know that until it’s published. We’re in the Schrodinger’s Batgirl period right now.Also, the cover art? Yes, it is pretty ridiculous, but it’s a COVER. It’s SUPPOSED to be eye-grabbing! All it tells us about the actual story within is that it will feature Batgirl in some way. If you want to talk about the anatomy issues or the superhero medium’s continued over-sexualization of the female body, then great! Those are very important issues to discuss, but please try not to get it mixed up with the actual story that will be featured in the comic. They are two entirely separate topics (and the trend of featuring covers only vaguely related to the story within is a third topic also worthy of discussion. Just throwing that out there.)
I appreciate that a lot, but I totally understand why people would be concerned…we dealt with TKJ pretty heavily and this solicit makes it sound like the focus of the issue, which, no, it happens before then. I don’t blame anyone for taking it as read, I probably would, too.
The cover…hm. This is the first I’ve seen it, and that’s a little curvier than I like Batgirl. But it’s Ed’s first image of the character, I think, the interior pages are lovely and she’s got more of the shape she has in the book currently.
