It was hotter when Harley Quinn and Ivy weren't a couple, but partners in crime out to seduce Bruce Wayne and use his credit cards for an X-mas shopping spree.
If a writer has to consistently completely ignore all previous characterization and backstory to write the story they want to tell, they perhaps aren’t as masterful as folks think they are.
People are referring to this as “true flawed Gwen Stacy”…but here’s the thing. This dialogue and reaction is not what I’d call “a flaw”.
Getting upset at somebody who misses out important moments without explanation & then expects you to comfort them about it is not a flaw.
LUKE, DUKE, AND KATE INCLUDED IN A BAT FAM IMAGE!!!! And also a Steph Crumb.
(There is a cruel trick about DC’s most visible Jewish woman showing up basically only on the Christmas cover with her family)
For Batman 140 (Dan Mora)
This is starting to annoy me.
It made sense that a young woman, particularly a black one, who runs a bar knows how to handle & protect herself physically.
Somebody who runs a local watering hole and is actively engaged in the community would know lots of people too…
The Judas contract isn’t an outlier or unusual in comparison to the characterization of Slade in the vast majority of Deathstroke comics.
It was created to be his definitive story and consequencely recanonized across continuities for a reason. That is who he is.
Casual reminder that Babs Batgirl had had a grand total of ONE solo issue come out prior to TKJ, and that was the issue she retired in.
The myth of her being the most popular and recognisable Batgirl was a fabrication of several men in power who wanted to regress her.
“Comics are worse than they’ve ever been!”
Oh yeah? You ever try and read a comic about a woman, particularly a teenaged girl, written between 2005-2008?
DC also published explicitly anti Reagan, anti tory, and anti thatcher comics in the 80s.
If Trump and his fans see themselves in an anti immigrant villains…well, first of all, they’ve not been reading DC comics, because this is like the fourth events in 3 decades tackling it.
A casual reminder that THIS is what Helena Bertinelli should look like- that her time at Spyral as the matron is canon, and that Tim Seeley has confirmed that she is afro Italian.
@Croc_Block
And it’s a strongly established gimmick throughout her comics too, bud.
I don’t remember the Deadpool films establishing a “set reason” for it either.
A little update in regards to WFA’s latest fast pass: they listened to us about Helena B/Huntress.
(One on the left was the original, one on the right is the update)
Never met an Oracle fan who was not absolutely obsessed with Cass Cain, whose name you cannot even be bothered to spell.
Roy hasn’t got his own comic in YEARS, or even a team comic until very recently because he was DEAD.
Cyborg was great, but one piece of rep does not cut it.
Y'all want better disability representation? Why don't y'all talk about or read Cyborg? Or Roy Harper? Or Cassandra Caine?
Like there's plenty of Disabled Rep in DC, let's not act like there isn't. You niggas just like your purity testing and can't think beyond that.
I’m calling this a birthday present to myself.
Shake it like a batgirl up in Gotham (drawn by
@leendraws
)
[Nell Little, Nissa, Tiffany Fox, Bette Kane, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Barbara Gordon]
This is probably a unpopular opinion but no. Get Tim off this hypothetical lineup & Harper on it.
We all know what would happen with this lineup- Tim would be pushed into the leadership position, everybody else would be reduced to make him look good, his stans would…you know.
Bea doesn’t have to have a rich adopted pirate dad to have money or a business.
She doesn’t need to have been a Spyral agent to be interesting and worthy of Richard’s respect and affection.
Let civilian love interests be civilians. Let civilian supporting cast be civilians.
DC Comics announces 'JENNY SPARKS', a six-issue miniseries launching this August written by Tom King with art by Jeff Spokes this August.
The book stars the leader of The Authority and will be released through DC's Black Label imprint.
Today's QUESTION OF THE DAY for comics readers!
Do you have a favorite quote from any comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel?
Any quote you just love for whatever reason!
Let's hear it!
#FaveComicQuotation
Every time one of y’all complains about Steph being a main Robin, I will find an increasingly obscure female Robin to replace one of the boys with.
I’ve had enough.
The main robins are about to be Talia Kane, Stephanie Brown, Isabella Ortiz, Mary Wills, and Maps Mizoguchi.
There have been two Bat girls, and one Bat Woman.
How many more lady bats do you need? I honestly think the Bat hero market is oversaturrated as it is.
90s/00s DickBabs worked because Barbara retained her personality, her autonomy, her incredible skills and had her own stories, her own team, and her own identity outside of “the ‘original’ batgirl, robin’s childhood sweetheart”.
Yet another victim of n52’s rewrite of her.
Every time I see folks put the DC trinity against anybody, I am aggressively reminded of how little the average person knows about Wonder Woman outside of her name and look.
Marvel’s Tin man is not beating her. Be so serious.
It’s always interesting to see who non comic DC fans view as “essential” to the bat family & who they don’t.
I’ve noticed they tend to present a lineup which has never existed in the comics (Alfred,batgirl Babs, red hood Jason, Nightwing, Bruce, & tim or Damian but not both)
I like the concept of Steph having a mask like this (armoured mouth cover, retractable domino), especially given we’ve seen two different people exploit two forms of weaknesses in her face cover lately & spoiler originally had full face coverage.
(From Joker: TMWSL, issue 10)
It really really angers me that Batman and basically everybody else around Steph framed her early days as Spoilers as her "just having fun and treating it as a game".
She literally created Spoiler as an identity because somebody had to take her dad down and Bruce didn't take him
(
#Batgirl
is trending so here’s a brief reminder that these women have, on page, all been presented as batgirl at some point
(Nell Little, Nissa, Tiffany Fox, Bette Kane, Stephanie Brown, Cass Cain, Barbara Gordon)
I shouldn’t allow myself to get annoyed by this but it’s really upsetting to see post crisis content be recommended consistently for the boys, whilst DC is afraid to let folks know about Steph and Cass’ past/more fulfilled identities.
(At least they recommended post crisis Babs)
I love to see this and I’m glad for it and the anthology…but it’s a little hard for us to find our stories when only three of these characters have ongoing comics this year (and one is ending)
@ChrisRBarron
No, I'm not a monarchist. But she is a 92 year old woman to which a man in a supposed place of power was disrespectful to. And that should be enough.
@bethanyshondark
My boyfriend, who happens to be an immigrant of colour, was recently followed by somebody in a black truck with trump flags who screamed profanity at him until somebody called the authorities. We live in a liberal city.
Perhaps you should write about the gross empowerment there
Steph being closer to almost all of Tim’s siblings than he is is so funny to me.
Like, Cass is the obvious one, but her & Dami in their Batgirl & Robin era, her & Duke, & now her and Jason being thick as thieves in Joker: TMWSL.
…Dick is perhaps the only one.
With all due respect, I really don’t think the sister who is heavily morally against killing folks (to the point that Kate doing it once almost permanently destroyed civility, let alone a relationship) has all that much in common with her brother, mister duffle bag full of heads.
Y’all get more mad about harmless fanon additions which ultimately don’t impact character identity (Tim is a coffee fiend) than you do actively damaging fanon misrepresentations (Steph is abusive, Duke is a mindless rule following good boy, Damian is a violent egomaniac, etc).
Elseworlds and black labels get a lot more wiggle room, and I do understand that the writer hasn’t always read the previous run.
But so often with especially more political characters, the radical shift has been made for somebody who actively disagrees with the core message.
@MANlSMONET
I understand that you're not looking for a serious answer but he's got very charming mannerisms in Eternals (and in interviews for what I've seen), and his character has the whole "I hate the world/but never you" thing that straight women lose their mind over.
This makes the thorns officially top ten in terms of attendance when it comes to US club soccer.
Higher than 15
#MLS
clubs (and all of their
#NWSL
counterparts.)
Donna was present for the coronation of Nubia. (Tales of the Amazons, wrapped up in March 2022)
If the writer didn’t know this, somebody else should have. This was the focus of a WW event. Is Nightwing set in the past? Lazarus Planet has Hippolyta in Olympus.
David Ayer did absolutely not invent Harley’s accent.
Every single version of Harley has had some degree of variation of it- it’s what Arlene Sorkin (the lass who inspired Harley) used.
Here’s the original Harley, in the animated show, who also has…a clear accent.
I don’t blame folks, especially young ones, who’ve bought into Didio revisionism.
Kim Yale (who was desperate to give Babs BACK her autonomy)fought for Oracle wrote her origin in The Batman Chronicles 5 as her last project before cancer got her.
@ComicsMeta
Even her being oracle is misogynistic. She can graduate but she can only be the "guy in the chair", she can no longer be independent and fight villains like she used to
Obviously, Gwen should and does have flaws.
But being upset after losing her dad, and not letting Peter do a kicked puppy routine for missing out on saying goodbye is not one.
The great “responsibility” Peter has is not just the one he fulfills as Spider-Man.
Anyway, some actual panels of dialogue published by DC through the decades (oldest is from 1989) including queer folk talking about their queerness, since Dixon apparently can no longer recognize poor photoshop from anything else.
@Samiel_Reese
@wearewatcher
He’s probably also seen the completely horrific & over the line things people have been saying about him on every platform.
Like the awful decision they’ve rolled back on deserved criticism but I feel like lots of folks chose to solely blame him because Shane & Ryan are likeable.
@ViewerAnon
For all the people in the QRT who have never bothered to read it- this is the canon comic origin for Babs batgirl too.
Batgirl: Year One. Came out in 2002.