Batgirls

[ComicNoobie]

I'm bummed that Batgirls is getting canceled. Where will I be able to read Steph's adventures now? The future looks bleak

[Digifiend]

Wayne Family Adventures?

[Factor]

I wish they'd call Sterling Gates and have him write Batgirls.
His run with Steph is my favorite Batgirl ever and I think he'd do a great job with Cass and Babs too.
I'd put someone like Sami Basri or Yasmine Putri on art.

[Felipe Silveira]

Rosenberg said a while that he was planning a Jason and Steph book.

[Factor]

Rosenberg said a while that he was planning a Jason and Steph book.

Oh god no. I haven't liked one single thing he wrote.
One of the worst X-writers ever and his DC stuff like Wildcats is a total missed opportunity.

[Frontier]

I wish they'd call Sterling Gates and have him write Batgirls.
His run with Steph is my favorite Batgirl ever and I think he'd do a great job with Cass and Babs too.
I'd put someone like Sami Basri or Yasmine Putri on art.

I think you mean Bryan Q. Miller?

He was going to write a time-travelling team-up story with all three Batgirls at some point.

Oh god no. I haven't liked one single thing he wrote.
One of the worst X-writers ever and his DC stuff like Wildcats is a total missed opportunity.

I haven't been reading his Joker but at least Steph and Jason have a good dynamic.

[sunofdarkchild]

Not surprising, considering how terrible the sales have been. If anything, I'm shocked it lasted this long. Batgirls was better than it's been given credit for, but it's never been great.

[Factor]

I think you mean Bryan Q. Miller?

He was going to write a time-travelling team-up story with all three Batgirls at some point.

I haven't been reading his Joker but at least Steph and Jason have a good dynamic.

Oh yes! Sterling Gates wrote a great Supergirl run during the same time, but I meant Miller for his Batgirl run.
But I think either of them would do a good job.

[Godlike13]

19 issues isn’t terrible in this market. Was hoping for 24 though.

[millernumber1]

I haven't been reading his Joker but at least Steph and Jason have a good dynamic.

I think Rosenberg seems really likely to pick up Steph in the current DC writers' stable, but I don't really like him as a writer very much. He does the same basic thing as Tim Seeley and/or James Tynion, but significantly worse.

I do agree that his Jason and Steph have a very nice dynamic, but that doesn't mean it'll be a good story for them.

19 issues isn’t terrible in this market. Was hoping for 24 though.

I was also really hoping for 24, but 19 issues is longer than 9 other series that launched in the Infinite Frontier era. I'm glad we got it, and I also wish for more.

[Frontier]

I think Rosenberg seems really likely to pick up Steph in the current DC writers' stable, but I don't really like him as a writer very much. He does the same basic thing as Tim Seeley and/or James Tynion, but significantly worse.

I do agree that his Jason and Steph have a very nice dynamic, but that doesn't mean it'll be a good story for them.

Well, we can at least hope he doesn't use her badly...

[Factor]

19 issues isn’t terrible in this market. Was hoping for 24 though.

It’s pretty bad when all three lead characters have sustained longer series. Even Steph, whose 24-issues run was prematurely cancelled due to the New 52.
Batgirl is one of DC’s most iconic titles, they should always have a Batgirl book running. The fact that a book starring all three past leads couldn’t reach 20 issues is pretty sad and says a lot about it failing to reach readers’ expectations.
Same for Robin. A Bat franchise without strong Batgirl and Robin books is doing something very wrong.

[Frontier]

It’s pretty bad when all three lead characters have sustained longer series. Even Steph, whose 24-issues run was prematurely cancelled due to the New 52.
Batgirl is one of DC’s most iconic titles, they should always have a Batgirl book running. The fact that a book starring all three past leads couldn’t reach 20 issues is pretty sad and says a lot about it failing to reach readers’ expectations.
Same for Robin. A Bat franchise without strong Batgirl and Robin books is doing something very wrong.

I wonder if it's a matter of diminishing returns via relaunches or just because of how inconsistent the tone/style of the books have been over the past few years. Even dating back to the Burnside revamp.

[MajorHoy]

It’s pretty bad when all three lead characters have sustained longer series. Even Steph, whose 24-issues run was prematurely cancelled due to the New 52.
Batgirl is one of DC’s most iconic titles, they should always have a Batgirl book running. The fact that a book starring all three past leads couldn’t reach 20 issues is pretty sad and says a lot about it failing to reach readers’ expectations.

Mind you, it wasn't until 2000 that DC started publishing a continuing self-titled series starring Batgirl.
In the years before then, there were the occasional one-shots or shorter features that ran in other books.

Same for Robin. A Bat franchise without strong Batgirl and Robin books is doing something very wrong.

And the first continuous on-going series titled Robin didn't get launched until 1993.

So DC didn't have a self-titled Batgirl or Robin on-going series for more than fifty years after the debut of Batman.

[HsssH]

I wonder if it's a matter of diminishing returns via relaunches or just because of how inconsistent the tone/style of the books have been over the past few years. Even dating back to the Burnside revamp.

I wonder if many fans are really interested in such books. On paper it sounds like a slam dunk: take all 3 Batgirls and combine their fanbases into one. But if you are primarly Babs fan would you really buy this series? Especially when you can just buy Nightwing instead?