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Creative Team on Batgirl Announced. No, I've never heard of the writer either.







From http://dcublog.dccomics.com/

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Well, a little more, at least. We’re not going to spoil the party right away and tell you who’s behind the mask. Heck, it might be someone you’ve never met before. Or it might not.

But, we can give you the lowdown on who the creators on this new ongoing will be. First up, the series will be written by Bryan Q. Miller, who is no stranger to superheroics, having done some writing for a little show called “Smallville.” Miller will also be penning a three-issue arc of TEEN TITANS, starting in July.

On art, we have Lee Garbett, who’s been doing a bang-up job as the regular artist on THE OUTSIDERS. Just wait until you see his interpretation of Batgirl — definitely a post for another day. He’ll be teaming with inker Trevor Scott.

And, for those of you kind folks chiming in on the comments, the cover artist is none other than Phil Noto, who did up the shiny piece of art you see above.

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From this guy's imdb entry... looks like the only things he's done are three episodes of Smallville.

"Smallville" (3 episodes, 2008-2009)

- Hex (2009) TV episode (written by)

At Chloe's birthday party, a mysterious woman named Zatanna, offers to grant Chloe one wish and the next morning, Chloe wakes up transformed into Lois Lane. With the real Lois out of the country, Chloe teams up with Clark to find the mysterious sorceress to find a way to reverse the hex spell. Meanwhile, Zatanna approaches Oliver to ask for his help to recover an ancient book of magic which she plans to use to resurrect her dead father.

- Bulletproof (2009) TV episode (writer)

Clark discovers John Jones was shot while working as a police officer, so Clark dons the uniform and goes undercover to find the culprit. Meanwhile, Lana confronts Tess and tells her Lex isn't the man she thinks he is. Lana's shocking news forces Tess to reevaluate her position as the head of Luthorcorp.


- Committed (2008) TV episode (written by)

After Chloe and Jimmy's engagement party at the Talon, they are both abducted by a mysterious man who kidnaps various couples and forces them to prove their love though a series of tests. Clark and Lois, investigating the abductions, decide to go undercover themselves as a couple to catch the thug, only to both end up as captives themselves when Clark is rendered powerless with Kryptonite. Meanwhile, Oliver seeks to rekindle his lost romance with Tess, only to discover that she no longer has any romantic feelings for him, or any moral feelings at all.


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For legality... I have no idea what this is. Thanks, google!






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From:[info]bluefall
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:11 pm (UTC)
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That is from "Elseworld's Finest," which I need to do a post on soon.

As for the Batgirl stuff, I'm past fear, rage, and annoyance and into boredom, at this point. Whatever, DC.
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From:[info]batcookies
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:22 pm (UTC)
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I really have to wonder, at this point.

They gave "Oracle: The Cure" to Kevin Vanhook, who wrote some really obscure movies, "Bloodshot", and "Superman and Batman vs. Vampires and Werewolves". But mostly he does those movies.

And the Batgirl series is going to... some guy that did a few eps of Smallville.

I've got all kinds of alarm bells going off. It sure looks like nobody that's been writing comics as a primary career is touching whatever's going on with a ten-foot pole.
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From:[info]tavella
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:48 pm (UTC)
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I've got all kinds of alarm bells going off. It sure looks like nobody that's been writing comics as a primary career is touching whatever's going on with a ten-foot pole.

Hmm, interesting take. I was thinking that it made it somewhat more likely that Levitz had Dick'd Didio's plans to re-Batgirl Barbara, as presumably he would want something of a name writer for his big "classic" reboot. But you have a valid point too -- maybe it's a case of him going to some TV writer "Batgirl! You know, the hot chick in the old Batman series!", because they can be counted on to write the 'classic' take he's looking for and not let any annoying bits of Oracle or past character development slip in.
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:May 8th, 2009 03:12 pm (UTC)
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It does seem pretty telling, doesn't it?

But it's still a bit weird, because, assuming that the end result here is Babsgirl as a new status quo, you'd think there'd be at least one writer in the stable who never liked Babs as Oracle, never had any affinity for her in the chair, and loves the new direction and would therefore jump to be the one who helps restore the "better" version that he liked more. I mean, we know that sentiment's not uncommon in the fanbase, even if it's not a majority, and the industry seems to mirror the fanbase pretty accurately. It seems strange to think that anyone would have such a *strong* opinion as to reshuffle the whole universe and piss off legions of fans while consciously sacrificing one of their best PR chips over a character they're not actually passionate about in any form.
From:[info]ebailey140
Date:May 9th, 2009 03:30 pm (UTC)
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How established a writer was Claremont before X-Men? Frank Miller before Daredevil? Neil Gaiman before Sandman? Let's see what this guy does before judging him.

A lot of folks writing for film and television over the last several years have been comic book fanboys. I'd guess these guys likely are, as well. Writing for another medium can certainly bring a fresh perspective from outside the usual comics bubble. Paul Dini, for example, could be argued to have a better sense of comic book storytelling than most of the folks in the industry today who've had comics as their main career.
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From:[info]04nbod
Date:May 10th, 2009 03:17 pm (UTC)
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If it makes you feel better his episodes of Smallville were OK. He wrote for Zatanna and Martian Manhunter in those and he did some great Lois/Clark stuff. However it was Smallville and with their budget its hard to do anything stellar (although Geoff Johns got the closest this season). With the scope of the comic world we'll see how he goes.
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From:[info]icon_uk
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:35 pm (UTC)
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I'm past fear, rage, and annoyance and into boredom

So those are the Yellow, Red, Turquoise and Mauve Lanterns, right?
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:56 pm (UTC)
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Yup. Don't expect to see the heliotrope of acceptance on my finger any time soon, though.
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:21 pm (UTC)
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Also - that's Noto? I would not have guessed. I can see it a little in the face, now that I know, but dang.
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From:[info]foxhack
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:50 pm (UTC)
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DISTRACTION BOOBS
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From:[info]taggerung301
Date:May 8th, 2009 03:43 pm (UTC)
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hahahaha, I think that's exactly what they are too
I'm kind of hoping that they're Cass distraction boobs and not Babs distraction boobs though . . . or at least steph
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From:[info]foxhack
Date:May 8th, 2009 03:54 pm (UTC)
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I managed to pry my eyes away from them to look at her mouth, and the color of the skin strikes me as the same one used for Cass in the past.

So I'm HOPING it's Cass, but I'm not holding my breath.
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From:[info]thebigapricot
Date:May 8th, 2009 02:57 pm (UTC)
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WTF -- Seriously why all the secrecy for this team?

I had hoped it was going to be Simone which would have telegraphed Babs as Batgirl and warranted the long reveal.

Now it seems given the "spoil" comment it's Steph. Fine. No hate there.

But now I am sad because if that's true what it really means is that Oracle will now be just a supporting character floating from Bat book to Bat book and from writer to writer and storyline to storyline.

Damn.





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From:[info]runespoor7
Date:May 8th, 2009 03:41 pm (UTC)
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Except that Simone was quoted (a while back) as saying that putting Babs back in spandex would be ridiculous.
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From:[info]batcookies
Date:May 8th, 2009 03:48 pm (UTC)

Not merely "ridiculous"...

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From:[info]sistermagpie
Date:May 8th, 2009 04:14 pm (UTC)
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It feels like the secrecy is covering up a lot of scrambling to work something out to me.
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From:[info]bluefall
Date:May 8th, 2009 04:28 pm (UTC)
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This. I've said it before, but my reigning theory right now is that we're seeing another Nightwing-dies-in-ICk thing, where a last-minute bid by cooler heads has taken "Oracle becomes Batgirl" off the table and they're all scrambling to compensate for the change.

I'm not sure how much of that is reasonable extrapolation and how much is hope, though.
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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:May 8th, 2009 04:44 pm (UTC)
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I think you're right.

I still can't quite get over the DCU blog entry about the Urgent Meeting, Topic: Batgirl. During which they Decided the fate of several characters. As usual, we created more questions then we set out to answer, but hey—that’s the fun part of the job. I’m surprised we ended up where we did, but WOW. Can’t wait to actually start on the title.

This is by the Batman Group Editor (!) about a meeting that supposedly took place on March 26 (!)

Okay DC! Thanks for the update! Be careful with those characters, okay?
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From:[info]scottyquick
Date:May 8th, 2009 05:49 pm (UTC)
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Because bringing in TV writers has worked so well in the past. Look at the critically acclamed "Love and Murder", "Justice League of America vol 2", "Green Arrow/Black Canary", (Aron Coleite's) "Ultimate X-Men", "Hulk vol 3" "Black Panther" and "Flash: The Fastest Man Alive" for evidence.
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From:[info]pepperspray101
Date:May 9th, 2009 07:17 am (UTC)
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Or Robin OYL and the Batgirl miniseries. *shudders*
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From:[info]thokstar
Date:May 8th, 2009 05:53 pm (UTC)
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If we're lucky, Miller will be another Sterling Gates.

If we're unlucky, Miller will be another Andrew Kreisberg.

Likely we'll get something in between.
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From:[info]xlineartx
Date:May 8th, 2009 06:14 pm (UTC)
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God, even if they aren't forcing Babs back into the cowl, why do they have to take the Bat away from Cass? Out of all the Batkids, she's the least likely to give it up willingly. Fuck you, DC. That's just mean.
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From:[info]runespoor7
Date:May 8th, 2009 06:26 pm (UTC)
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She's the least likely to give it up unless she's dead. It's not just an issue of fighting crime, to her the Bat is the Mission. Cass not having the Bat would be so wrong, on so many levels.
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From:[info]purpleprose
Date:May 9th, 2009 01:32 am (UTC)
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Bryan Q. Miller? Damn. I'm going to need to pick this up now. I love his eps of Smallville. He seems to be one of the few writers of that show who actually attempts to be loyal to the themes of the comics it springs from.

I just hope this doesn't mean he won't have time for Smallville next season. I need my fun Bryan Q. Miller eps to be free of the usual insanity of that show..
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From:[info]04nbod
Date:May 10th, 2009 03:25 pm (UTC)
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Your avatar is beautiful. Serinda nailed it. She was playful and threatening all at the same time although I wish the show would get away from the mould of their superhero episodes. You know, all other heroes are morally vague and clark has to set them straight. Zatanna tried to kill to get her father back, admits she was wrong and gets validation as a hero, legion try to kill chloe and admit they were wrong and clark accepts them as heroes and now oliver who killed Lex (which he couldn't have really) is being deemed a villain because he suggests he may have done the right thing! ffs.
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