It was announced that Gail Simone was being fired from Batgirl. Once I picked my jaw up off the floor and the anger subsided I decided to draw Barbara as a final tribute to Simone's run.
I'm not in a mindset to do Gail Simone's affect on me justice at the moment, so I'm just going to past what I wrote on Tumblr, the day I'd heard.
I started reading Batgirl expecting some weird cop-out, to see the next big issue everyone was yelling about on the forums as it happened, because of both Barbara’s past in the wheelchair and because of the other Batgirls that had risen in the interim. I didn't count on Gail Simone, mostly because I hadn’t read her work before.
Batgirl is one of the few books DC has put out that I’ve been able to get in to. It’s had some of my favourite moments and a drive behind it that was pretty damn original. I’ve seen heroes crippled. I’ve seen heroes beaten, bloody, with social disorders, out of their league, go through some incredibly traumatic experiences… but rarely have I seen them pick themselves up from something quite like what Barbara went through. The flashbacks, the anger, the fear, all of it spoke to me as someone who’s worked through depression, and seeing Barbara not just get past it, but leave it broken and bleeding on the floor in such a spectacular fashion… I loved it. I ate it up, and gladly so. Batgirl was one of those books I’d go homeless to keep reading.
Gail, whatever you’re doing next, know that you have my support, and know that Barbara has had an impact on what I do.
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