Thoughts?

I would have been more okay with it if they had gone with this design FOR the reboot
instead of having her recover first from the leg/spine injury, then graduating to a high-tech
suit, and now, seemingly, reducing her age and body mass to that of a younger girl.

Seems a better "starter" outfit for her.

It was posted in the DC thread a couple of days ago. I think it's a great design and approach (fun without being exploitative).

I am dying to know what Linda thinks.

As for me, I'm torn. It's a nice design that would work well in a movie or TV show but not sold on it for Batgirl.

Why can't they just do a total reboot if they are going to do one at all. Everytime they screw themselves over by keeping this or that. Batgirl starting out for the first time, maybe make Cloe from Smallville the new Oracle as a way to keep both?

I like the Chloe idea. And I used to hate total reboots but boy is one needed now.

Crossposting this from the Windows 9 thread -- the first alpha build has a Batgirl-coloured theme:

Does this mean yay or nay?

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Got it.

I dig it, immensely.

She's got that Shelby not-looking-at-the-camera thing down.

While it's not bad by contemporary standards, I'm inclined to agree with Linda that it's overdesigned.

She definitely looks girlish.

Batgirl will always be a young woman or woman to me.

Supergirl I can accept as a teen, since that's how she began her career.

I likes it.

"Working more "librarian style" into Barbara's clothing choices?" All kidding about tightly pulled hair buns and granny glasses aside, I'm not sure what that would mean. Most libraries do have dress codes that encourage fairly conservative, professional attire, but within those limits there's a pretty fair amount of diversity.

Of course I'm not the person to weigh in on questions of style, since I don't really have any. Just enough to avoid completely pulling a faux pas most of the time. Lucky I work in a rural library where we can get away with being more casual.

Well, I'd go to the library more often.

Okay, we're informal here, but showing off one's midriff at the circ desk is one of our definite no-nos!

Well, DC's writers and artists would more likely depict their naughty librarian fantasies rather than what librarians actually wear to work.

I'm curious why this is even a press release, though. Is it really a selling point for their products to offer more librarian content? You and I might be sitting on a goldmine, Daphne.

I'm surprised that the Batgirl revamp was only supposed to be six issues.

But I don't WANT some comic book writer sticking me in a refrigerator!