Sunday, April 26, 2009

Where The Hell Is Batgirl?

Back in February at the NY Comic Con, Dan DiDio and company announced that there would be 8 series "starting" in June spinning off of events in Battle For Simon Cowell: Batman, Detective Comics, Batman & Robin, Red Robin, Batman: Streets of Gotham, Gotham City Sirens, The Outsiders...and Batgirl.

Soon afterward, we started getting announcements of creative teams and preview artwork and other dribbles of information...but nothing for Batgirl.

Then the June solicits were released, and no Batgirl. All the other promised series were there, but no Batgirl. But nobody (myself included) seemed to notice in all the hoopla for Morrison and Quitely, etc.

Well, no biggie, right? It's just getting started a little later than the others.

Then, last week, the July solicits came out. And again, no Batgirl. Not a mention, not a hint.

So, what's the deal? Batgirl was announced with all the others, but in the intervening time, the title hasn't even had a creative team announced.

Is DC just waiting until the end of Battle for Simon Cowell (and Oracle: The Cure) for the big reveal of who the new Batgirl will be? They don't want to spoil it, and they don't want to release "blank" solicits like Marvel did for Purple Reign?

Or is the new creative really, really slow, and DC just wants to have a few issues in the bank before they start soliciting it?

Or, has DC reconsidered, and we won't be getting a Batgirl series after all? Given the complete and utter lack of follow-up information, that's become a serious possibility.

So that's the question of the week--Where the hell is Batgirl?!?

UPDATE: Dan DiDio told Newsarama on 4/29 that Batgirl "will be hitting shops in August." Still no creative team, though...

1 comment:

Christian Zamora said...

Oh, she's right here with me. She says "hi" ;)