“Yes! And that somehow our other selves are elsewhere — on some strange world!”
Batman #146 featured Bat-Girl, Robin, and half of Batman and Batwoman sent to other planets. It’s nice to see that, even split in half, they have spot-on instincts.
The issue starts with Bat-Girl standing on a swinging swing, hitting a man who is on the top of a see-saw, because another man is stuck at the bottom of the see-saw.
This raises so many questons.
I always welcome more Batgirls, but I don’t see it happening for the following reasons.
1. All of the Birds of Prey know Cassandra Cain and know her well. Sure, White Canary in Birds of Prey was wearing a half-mask, but they’d still know her. And wouldn’t it be a little awkward to introduce this big mystery character on the last page of Birds of Prey only to have the characters go, “Oh, hey Cassandra,” in the next issue? I guess we’ll see.
2. White Canary? Really? That’s the title? A spin-off of an already shuffled around character? That’s not the strongest title for a book. ‘Cassandra Cain,’ would be a much better title all on its own. You have the alliteration, the allusion to the homicidal Cain in the Bible. It’s like Damian Al Ghul. That’s an evocative enough name, and by this time a well enough known name, to stand alone.
3. As I understand it, when Ian Sattler was asked at Heroes Con, about any upcoming Cassandra Cain books, he said they planned to leave the character alone for a couple of years. In my experience, the default answer for these things is ‘sure, ____ might come back soon,’ no matter how unlikely it is, so if someone is actually willing to say that there’s nothing planned, there’s probably nothing planned.
Or are they running a double game on us?
So, it appears that because of slow initial sales of the Wonder WomanDVD made Warner Brothers rethink their plans to make a Batgirl animated movie. And what’s more, it caused them to rethink making a Batgirl: Year One animated movie.
This saddens me.
In fact, it caused them to rethink making any movie with female leads. This angers me, a little.
Let’s focus, for now, on the saddening part, and what we can do to fix it. For starters, there is an internet petition already started to restart the Batgirl: Year Oneproject. I know, I know, internet petitions suck. However, I’m very much of a ‘throw everything at the wall and see what sticks’ mentality these days, and so I signed it and hope you will, too. I also hope you will blog, will ask questions at conventions, and will, if you’re old fashioned, drop DC a letter talking about how much you’d like a Batgirl:Year One movie. That is, if you do. And if you don’t, well, you’re a fool. Below I will list the reasons why I think that even if Wonder Woman had sold badly entirely, and not just initially, it would be a good idea to make a Batgirl: Year One movie.
-The Fourcast is one year old this week!
-(We took a six week break last year when my work schedule got crazy and I officially stopped sleeping.)
-We talk about things we liked last year: Wednesday Comics, Amazing Spider-Man, and Gastrophobia
-We have a wish list for the next year, too!
–Batgirls
-More ongoing series of graphic novels
-Happy Fun Comics
-Esther’s love of Frank Miller
-More Crime and War Comics
-David’s complete inability to add properly
–Absolute Flex Mentallo
–Wednesdayer Comics
-Dead Heroes
-No wait, No Dead Heroes
-6th Sense’s 4a.m. Instrumental for the theme music.
-See you, space cowboy!
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The trick with interviewing comics creators is not coming off like that kind of fan. You know the one: the fan that takes things personally, gets overly involved in every story arc and character moment, and generally makes life miserable for anyone unlucky enough to get their attention.
This is particularly hard when you most definitely are that kind of fan, especially when it comes to – oh, I don’t know, let me pick a character out of a hat – Batgirl. I admit, when I came up to Bryan Q Miller, the current writer of Batgirl, I was bouncing on my heels a little. Despite everything, though, he agreed to an interview.
