HARLEEN FRANCIS QUINZEL YOU GO PUT SOME PANTS ON RIGHT NOW, YOUNG LADY. And a blouse. And lace your damn corset properly.

Did anyone post this yet? (Looking at the time stamp, I think no.) Gail Simone talks about the Batgirl reboot: [link]

Gail Simone talks about the Batgirl reboot:

An interesting conversation as she obviously wasn't keen on the reboot and losing Oracle and has decided to stay with the 'verse and do right by Babs as best she can.

I'm so very tired of DC's stunt reboots anyway. I don't like characters coming back from the dead. I think having narrative consequences is the only way to build a story.

That said, when you have a serial story with characters that exist in some kind of stasis for decades then it becomes almost impossible to work new stories on them.

But I prefer Gail's principle: "Don't negate."

And this is a huge negation. You don't have to lose all that narrative capital that's been built up. You can - as I mentioned before - take the Paul Dini route and keep all the good stuff and offload the bad stories.

That noted, I expect what will happen is this. They'll bring Barbara Gordon as Batgirl before the events of Killing Joke. And let her run for several years. And then she will become crippled but it won't be in a refrigerator episode. She'll be hurt doing something heroic and thus they'll be able to reclaim the Oracle narrative and excise the shitty begin.

But I don't know - they're being very coy about the canon after the reboot. I'm presuming this is not a healed Barbara, but a pre- or non- injured Barbara. That might not be the case, but I can't see how else they'd do a reboot. I guess they could have the Joker shoot her and then Super Science fix her.

It's still shitty. It's a bad move.

OTOH, DC's right that it will probably increase sales so they don't care.

I've been poking through other reboot articles on Newsarama, and I didn't realize there are huge rumors of reboot!Superman being a single dude. That feels gimmicky.

OTOH, if the reboot is making the characters younger, then it makes sense, timeline-wise.

HARLEEN FRANCIS QUINZEL YOU GO PUT SOME PANTS ON RIGHT NOW, YOUNG LADY. And a blouse. And lace your damn corset properly.

Yeah. I'm really not digging the new Harley Quinn.

And here I thought her outfits in the Batman: Arkham games were bad...

That interview with Gail Simone makes me feel a little better about the whole thing, though this still seems like a bad idea.

Also, what's up with everyone wearing black and red? First most of the Teen Titans, and now Nightwing.

Speaking of the Titans, who the heck is freaky cyborg-lizard chick in the lower left?

And here I thought her outfits in the Batman: Arkham games were bad...

Gnnnng. Don't remind me.

THANK YOU for having my back on the Harley... thing. I refuse to dignify it by calling it a costume, it's not an outfit, and it's most decidedly not a suit; it's just a ... thing.

Full list of September DC titles .

It is in desperate need of a defender, and from the ranks of Batman Incorporated comes a soldier to carry on the legacy of The Dark Knight in the most tumultuous region on Earth. Meet Batwing, the Batman of Africa!

Who now? Is this a new thing? Given the reference to Batman Incorporated, I assume so.

Resurrection Man can’t stay dead for long, though – and with each rebirth comes new and unexpected powers. But his many returns have not gone unnoticed, and forces are gathering to learn what’s so special about him – and to see which of them will finally stop Resurrection Man dead.

I am guessing...none of them. Who the hell is this guy?? Heh.

Holy shit this is awesome: Knightfall summarized.