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New Creative Team Headed to BATGIRL

Looks like Barbara is getting a new look as well.

There's been a bunch of new creative announcements at DC this past week. Looks like they're not finished with them just yet. DC has announced, via MTV, that BATGIRL will get a new creative team as well as a slightly new look.

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BATGIRL will now be written by Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher with art by newcomer Babs Tarr. This begins in October with BATGIRL #35

Stewart told MTV that Barbara "wants the opportunity to have some fun and live the life of a young, single girl in the city, so she packs up and moves to Burnside, the cool, trendy borough of Gotham, to focus on grad school."

Fletcher continued "Barbara allows herself to be immersed in youth culture for the first time, exploring the social side of life in Burnside. That’s not to say there isn’t mystery, of course! Try as she might to live a “normal” life, Barbara very quickly finds herself drawn back into the world of crime fighting."

Gail Simone will be taking on another project, soon to be announced.

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Well, I myself have never read Batgirl. But I was under the impression the only reason it was selling was because it had Simone's name attached to it. Wasn't there that story of how DC fired her then the fans raged until she was rehired? Was that all just some weird propaganda? Anyway, if that is true, this series probably won't last much longer. And Batwoman lost a lot of readers when its creative team was fired apparently so it's probably not got too much longer either. But then again, Catwoman continued for so long under Nocenti. But they really don't need three different female Bat-family characters to all have their own monthly series. They should cancel them all and do either a new take on Gotham City Sirens without the part where the main characters are villains, or some sort of Batman Family Showcase title.

Simone wasn't fired from this, it was creative differences, she said it on her twitter herself. But I like the idea of Gotham City Sirens returning. That was fun series.

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I know New 52 Barbara suppose to be young but come on...she is beyond this teenager crap. This would be more fitting for Stephanie Brown ( kinda glad they didn't do this to her though )

I won't judge the story until I see it but the first impression ? Not. Good.

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This is something Stephanie Brown would wear.

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I'm not sure how I feel about this. However, it makes me feel younger, as I'm the same age as Babs but she always feels so much more.... ahead(?).

I still think it should be an alternative book, like "before the current series". It's like a regression to the character :P

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Edited By DrApplebox

@nahuel said:
Functional and practical suit.

Sideways utility belt. Cape. Restrictive leather. Long exposed hair.

Yup, very practical.

Seriously, what's with this fetish for superhero costumes to be "practical?" The entire GENRE is inherently unrealistic, and none of the costumes are practical. NONE.

Or is practical just code for "not form-fitting?"

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That's...pretty terrible

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I think they are focusing the book to a younger female audience, which is cool but its coming off my pulllist. I am glad to see babs Tarr getting more work, she is a great artist. but like a few people have said it feels more a step backward than forward.