Gail Simone No Longer Writer of Batgirl, and When Babs Met Ollie

[espanolbot]

Gail just confirmed over twitter that the new Batgirl editor, Brian Cunningham, that she is no longer the writer of Batgirl, despite her refuting rumours that she'd been replaced just earlier this week. Hm.

I will admit that despite my not being as much of a fan of her current Batgirl run as I've been of her other work, this still kind of saddens me, if only because she always seemed to be having a ball when it came to her writing and promoting this work.

And right after the all-female team-up book she'd spent a year working on was rejected right out of the gate when she pitched it too (probably because she wanted to use Steph in it).

Wonder why it happened, it wasn't as if she wanted to leave or that the book wasn't successful...

On the topic of Batgirl, here is a part from Birds of Prey that involves Babs and men's relationships with her. Though I'm pretty sure Simone didn't write this version of Babs, I kind of prefer this one to the one in her current solo series, sorry.











In addition, here's a page from the Batman 15 preview, which I'm actually looking forward to quite a bit...
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=14496

Comments

[doomisay]

"do these people not even work in the same office?"

For the most part, no. This isn't the 60s where everybody is working out of the "bullpen".

[wizardru]

If you read "Marvel: The Untold Story", you realize that the Bullpen was pretty much a mythical construction almost from the start. There was a small office area and freelancers might come in from time to time, but there wasn't ever truly some amazing place where you could walk in and see all the artists and writers collaborating at the same time. DC had a larger presence than Marvel, but the general idea was that most of these people only got together once in a while, if at all.