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In response to
"Isn't he supposed to be a bad guy? He can't do bad things anymore?"
by
Guigue
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you'd be right. Here is the issue...the comic Batgirl was currently remade into a book for young teens/young women. The tone of the book is very light
Posted by
Remlik (aka remlik)
Mar 17 '15, 16:11
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from Bleeding Cool:
It is, that of all the comics for it to appear on, Batgirl right now, is the wrong one. A year ago, it would have been a lot more acceptable, given the darker tone of that book, and there may have been a reaction against it, but not to this extent.
But Batgirl was reinvented and relaunched as a light’n’brighty, female positive, progressive fun comic book. It found an audience that wasn’t being served by mainstream superhero comic books and brought them into the fold. It represented something new, and became totemic for that approach. It was a rejection of The Killing Joke, it was a rejection of the tone of the New 52 Batgirl, it was an attempt to forge a new identity and, in turn, has seen DC remodel much of their line in June, not as a copycat, but to find other new audiences that might be out there. And internally nicknamed in DC Comics as “Batgirling”. It is as appropriate to put that cover on the new Batgirl comic book, as it would be to put this cover on something as much loved and revered as The Killing Joke.
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