scans_daily: Gail Simone on what's to come

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@ 2012-01-11 09:42 am UTC

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char: batgirl/oracle/barbara gordon, creator: gail simone, title: batgirl

Gail Simone on what's to come

An very insightful interview with Gail Simone on Newsarama concerning batgirl.

you can see it here, http://www.newsarama.com/comics/gail-simone-batgirl-cure-revelations-120111.html

Simone: Well, there's an unexpected date, some new neighbors of interest, including one who wants to be Batgirl, new villains, the return of an old one, the answers to the Oracle question, the back-story about her return to mobility, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Arkham, mom, a really unfortunate date, a BOP friend, pirates, a JLA guest star, the worst family reunion ever, muffins, the secret of her martial arts training, the answer to what really happened immediately after she was shot in the Killing Joke. And we're just getting warmed up.

Misfit anyone? my money is on Misfit :D
Also "The Answer to the Oracle Question" and a BoP Friend... and Worst Family Reunion ever. (James Jr?:)

Personal Thought: I know Snyder had James as Dick's archnemisis (his opposite, or Dark Mirror if you will :) but for some reason, i think he would make a better nemisis for Barbara... the good child and the dark child. Snyder showed him to be psychotic, but Brilliant! his whole scheme was imensely demented but shear genious. it would be interesting to have him be a villain for her... its probably not gonna happen but still.. :D

anyways some OH SO PRETTY Batgirl #6 cover art...

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	no subject damar148 2012-01-11 06:53 pm UTC (link)
	I'm still not buying someone well into her twenties still being 'Bat-GIRL'. They could have easily made a new Bat identity. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 11 comments) (Show 11 comments)

	no subject filthysize 2012-01-11 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	Elastigirl disagrees! Actually, who's older, Kate Kane or Barbara? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject shadowpsykie 2012-01-11 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	ummm i think Kate is older by a tad. I'd say she was 21 by the time she left to train to be Batwoman.... then traied for... 2-5 years? making her between... 24 and 26. where Barbara i think here is portrayed as.... 23-24? also kate is a contemporary of Renee who is a police detective.... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-01-11 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Provided you mean the Doom Patrol, Elasti-Girl was a former beauty queen and actress, and might reasonably call herself "girl" long after many would have switched to "Woman" (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

	no subject shadowpsykie 2012-01-11 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	the one in the Incredibles still went by Elastigirl didn't she? and she was still well into womanhood (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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icon_uk
2012-01-11 08:26 pm UTC (link)

Not really, she retired almost immediately after marriage because of the outlawing of supers, so when she came back years later, it was people like Syndrome and Frozone who called her Elasti-Girl because that's the name they'd last known her by, it's not necessarily what she called herself... if you see what I mean.

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	no subject shadowpsykie 2012-01-11 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	but didn't/doesn't she still go by it in the sequel comics? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-01-11 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	No idea, I wasn't considering them as part of the canon! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject filthysize 2012-01-11 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	When she got married, though, she was "well into her twenties" and still went by Elastigirl. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject lieut_kettch 2012-01-12 09:26 am UTC (link)
	Would she sue IMDB for publishing her birth year too? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-01-12 10:27 am UTC (link)
	May I assume that that's referring to a real case? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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junipepper
2012-01-12 07:03 am UTC (link)

*snork* It's surely no worse than Congresswoman Batgirl ... that was always a bit dissonant for me. Congressgirl, Batwoman, who are you?

A new Bat identity? They just made one recently for Cass - of course, it's gone now - but clearly it can be done. But the whole point of making Barbara Batgirl again was to have that character back in that specific, iconic role. Personally, I'd rather have left Babs as Oracle and Steph as Batgirl, but I think DC was pretty clear about what they wanted this to be.

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