And the New Batgirl Is…
?
The new Batgirl is:
A) …revealed in last Wednesday’s Batgirl #1
B) …not that big of a surprise
C) …revealed after the jump
D) …all of the above
It’s D. Also, it’s Stephanie Brown, a.k.a. the Spoiler. This isn’t a huge surprise to DC fans, because Barbara Gordon hadn’t recently regained use of the her legs, Cassandra Cain was the last Batgirl and thus was more or less out of the running to be a new Batgirl, and basically the only other girl in the Bat-family left was Stephanie.
I admit, I didn’t think of Stephanie/Spoiler as a candidate for the new Batgirl mainly because I don’t think of Stephanie/Spoiler ever, not even when she was macking on Robin, being Robin, or being dead (she got better). You DC folks have to let me know how you feel about this. Basically, I’m only mentioning it because it seems like the kind of comics news nerds ought to know. I may be wrong.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.