![]() ![]() But they know (for reasons I don’t recall, and which don’t matter) that Batman can’t be there, so who is this? It turns out to be Batgirl. But that Batgirl moment…ĭick Grayson and Alfred are at Wayne Manor, when they see the famous silhouette of Batman at the window. Here, the overall story is Conway being pretty mundane. The writer was Gerry Conway, who generally is a workaday comics writer, but capable of occasional moments of brilliance (aged twenty, he wrote the classic death of Gwen Stacy story in Amazing Spider-Man). My favourite Batgirl moment is one of the first I read, in Detective Comics 526, the five hundredth appearance of Batman in Detective, back in 1983. Of course, sometimes she was badly written, especially in the early days, when writers could get away with more sexist nonsense than they can now. So sometimes she employed Bat-compacts, carried a Bat-purse, or stayed out of a fight because she had a run in her tights (though that turned out to be a ruse to distract the bad guys so that Batman and Robin could clobber them).īut sometimes she was written brilliantly. ![]() After all, this was an independent career woman, with a Ph.D., who had been head of a major public body – the Gotham Public Library – and subsequently a United States Congresswoman. When written properly, she was of a lighter disposition than Bats, but she still took her superheroics seriously, and wasn’t frivolous. Sure, she was a female knock-off of Batman, but she was never as broody or miserable as Batman. She was more than just a female knock-off of Batman. Why did I want to write her? Because she was cool. She was Barbara Gordon, daughter of Batman’s ally Commissioner Gordon. Technically the second Batgirl (though the first was a hyphenated Bat-Girl), this heroine was created as a character that could be employed in the Batman television series in the 1960s, and simultaneously appeared in the comics (in a different, and rather less gaudy, costume, designed by the late Carmine Infantino). But top of the list of characters I wanted to write was Batgirl. Not the obvious ones, like Superman or Batman. I did want to write the Avengers, and Captain America. ![]() But let me tell you who was top of the list of characters I wanted to write. Fortunately, I never got to do so – most of my plot ideas were rehashed from my favourite stories by other people. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Tony Keen ruminates on how he wanted to portray the Dominoed Daredoll, comparing and contrasting her with other ladies of the DC Universe …īack in my youth (in my case, my early twenties), like many comics fans, I had a fancy to write superhero comics for a living. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. ![]() The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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