In honor of ALL the Batgirls, I’m starti
ng this thread. Please add links to fan art, convention sketches, whatever, anything that HASN’T appeared in an actual comic, that is Batgirl art.
And please no porn, if you don’t mind, okay?
Any Batgirl, just link your favorite Batgirl art! Thanks!
Gail Simone commands, and I obey. Especially when it involves Batgirl.
Here’s one:
An “alternate Batgirl” that I cooked up between the introduction of Oracle and the introduction of Cassandra Cain:
And then there’s this, posted earlier on this very site:
I do love Batgirl!
I am still on the fence about what to do with comics after the Incredible Hulk wraps up its current run Wednesday. Despite my strong feelings about Oracle, her Birds of Prey, and the advantages of a multi-generational DC, (as well as the Steph Brown Batgirl) I’ve been considering at least giving the first issue of the new Batgirl series a try, due to my love of the character and my faith in writer Gail Simone. Part of me hasn’t wanted to— after reading the debates on the matter I can’t shake the feeling that, despite the quality or merits of the book, supporting it is the wrong thing to do. Even if failing to support the book means Barbara gets swept off to the side with Cass and Steph— as was apparently intended back in 1988.
This preview, posted originally in the New York Post, did not help DC’s case. Aside from not loving the art, I just feel that the attempt to shoehorn this story into the new truncated timeline devised by DC’s editorial is doing both the writing and the character a disservice. I think Gail Simone is doing her darndest to make Bab’s return feel genuine and earned, but the de-aging issue takes a lot of the legitimacy out of it. All the parts do not add up to a cohesive whole.
I may be judging the story unfairly based on these five pages that are out of context, and that realization keeps a glimmer of hope alive, but I’ve been looking for reasons not to buy the book even more than reasons to buy it, and this preview has made a stronger case for simply making a clean break from monthly superhero comics after this week. :(
From the NY Post this morning. Give the story a read, it’s a fair take on the issues. Those who have still questioned whether the Killing Joke happened, see below. It did, and apparently three years before the book begins. I assume that she was a teenager then? Ack, my head.
The writing is snappy, as you’d expect from Simone. She even gets a Batwoman joke in.
Scroll down to the bottom of this post. This page sums up what I loved about the DCU. The characters evolved. There was history. The teen sidekicks grew up, some to develop their own identities (Arsenal, Troia, Oracle,) and a few to assume the mantle after their mentors had gone (Wally West, Dick Grayson). In turn, they trained a new generation of heroes—Mia Dearden. Cassie Sandsmark. Cass Cain and Steph Brown. Bart Allen. Damien Wayne. Looking at the intelligence and wisdom in the eyes of Barbara Gordon as she forges a relationship with a new Batgirl and takes another step in her own development is beyond cool. And it’s something I’m going to miss as the DCnU kicks in next month and the ”classic” generation (Clark, Bruce, Diana, Arthur, Hal, Barry), with the exception of all the (male) Robins, a de-aged Barbara Gordon, and some unrecognizeable Teen Titans, becomes the only generation.
The world has a past and a future. We don’t throw our hands in the air because the centuries of human history make life “inaccessible.” When we meet people we like, who are interesting to us, we naturally want to learn more about them and the history they have. An understanding of their past makes us appreciate them more and helps us enjoy the changes that come as time moves forward. That’s one thing that have made superhero comics unique among other media. It’s a shame that’s now seen as a liability.
This past week we saw, after twenty two years, what is probably the last appearance of Oracle for the foreseeable future. As a send-off for this great character, I’ve been doing a series of tribute posts that include thoughts and memories by some of the creators who have written Oracle through the years.
Yesterday I included memories by Scott Peterson, who wrote her first standalone story, Devin Grayson, who wrote the character, Joan Hilty, who edited Birds of Prey, and Greg Rucka, who has written the character in a book and in comics. Today I bring you two of her most recent writers; Tony Bedard who wrote her Birds of Prey (at left is from a page I own of his Birds of Prey #119 with art by Nicola Scott) and Bryan Q. Miller, who wrote her in the most recent volume of Batgirl. Their thoughts follow.
Yeah, I’ll reblog this. I love when larger than life characters get the time to be human. This is great stuff.
Behold child … Barda. Tony Bedard’s classic Barda moment from his Birds of Prey run. Today is the birthday of Jack Kirby Barda’s creator (among many other things).
(Source: holavicente)
So it would seem the dream of having Lauren Montgomery direct a DC Universe animated film adaptation of Batgirl Year One (or even a Showacse short for “Birds of Prey”) finally dies for good here. Still, I hear Avatar rocks, and this show’s got a female protagonist, so good for her. It can only benefit from her involvement.
Kaiju Versus Amazon by *RFComics
This is currently my second most popular bit of art at dA, after this one. Had a lot of fun drawing it, too!
I never quite got hooked on Secret Six, but posts like this make me recognize how special this book was. I hope when DC inevitably realizes its mistake and brings it back, it gets better treatment than the misfired—and aborted— relaunch of Birds of Prey.
So, tomorrow the final issue of Gail Simone’s Secret Six comes out. This has easily been my favourite book for the past two years, since I started picking it up; I have a soft spot for the villains anyways, and the morally ambiguous, hilarious, twisted heroics of the Six have…
I have grown to love Steph Brown over the past two years, and this costume makes me happy. What a great, eye-catching photo as well. :)
Today was one of my best days on Tumblr EVER. I have never received so many nice messages and positive feedback before! Furthermore I reached 80 FOLLOWERS!! This is absolutely incredible! I don’t deserve this! Guys, you are AWESOME!! ♥♥♥
By the way here’s another picture of my
unfinishedBatgirl/Stephanie Brown costume. I really hope you like it!!
[Costume made by me; Photo + Edit by Acorea]
Another drawing in reaction to the DCnU—my take on a modern Supergirl costume that incorporated then rumored, now debunked “girls wear pants” mandate. Always thought the big appeal of Supergirl was that she’s a girl just like the young female readers she was created for, but she still can do anything Superman can do.
http://illustrious-crackpot.deviantart.com
I love Barbara Gordon as Batgirl. She was one of the main highlights of the 90’s Batman cartoons for me in my impressionable youth, and when I started getting into the main DC Comics canon a few years ago, she was one of the first characters I started searching for stories of. In fact, I’m almost totally unashamed of having the world’s biggest, geekiest girl crush on her.
And I learned to love her as Oracle too, not only because as an information jockey to the superheroes she was an incredibly unique sort of character, but because she still managed to be amazingly independent despite her confinement to a wheelchair. Despite being paralyzed below the waist, she could still take out a bunch of assailants whether in her chair or out, using nothing but her brain and some tonfa. Not to mention that her wheelchair didn’t have any handles, because she refused to let other people push her chair for her, and often got offended when they offered to.
But like I said, I love Barbara Gordon in both forms, so I’m still happy to see her return to being Batgirl in September (as long as her paralysis is somehow addressed in-story, as opposed to just rolling back the clock to before she was shot, but because Gail Simone’s the writer, I’ve got faith). The only problem is, I love the other Batgirls too, and their respective relationships with Oracle as a mentor and a support system. Heck, between the three of them, if asked who my favorite Batgirl is, my response is almost always going to be dependent on which one of them I’ve read most recently. They’ve all brought distinctly different things to the role—Barbara her sass and inventiveness, Cassandra her childlike innocence and role as a societal outsider, Stephanie her perseverence in the face of overwhelming odds including her own failings. I just love all these girls, they’ve all been a part of my life in their own ways, and I hope to continue into the future with them in whatever forms they take.-R. Ordway
This is a great little drawing. I likes me some joy in my superhero comics, and you don’t get that much anymore. But you sure get it here.
Stuff I drew, stuff I wrote, stuff I collect, stuff I like.
![I have grown to love Steph Brown over the past two years, and this costume makes me happy. What a great, eye-catching photo as well. :)
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Today was one of my best days on Tumblr EVER. I have never received so many nice messages and positive feedback before! Furthermore I reached 80 FOLLOWERS!! This is absolutely incredible! I don’t deserve this! Guys, you are AWESOME!! ♥♥♥
By the way here’s another picture of my unfinished Batgirl/Stephanie Brown costume. I really hope you like it!! [Costume made by me; Photo + Edit by Acorea]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9qkmmzBT1qjfib7o1_1280.jpg)
