Bat-babes have suffered the most
And not just Barbara Gordon or even Spoiler, but even older female cast members like Leslie Thompkins. This article from Sequential Tart (H/T: Comics Worth Reading) features a lot of info on how badly mistreated a lot of the female cast members of Batman's own supporting cast have been in the past decade or so, making Batman's possibly the numero uno book that needs a repair job done.
Reading these also clued me in to a lot more about Bill Willingham's own writing "style", one more reason why I'd rather not read any of his books.
One more thing: is it just me, or, has Vicky Vale been out of sight for some time now? I know she was around in the early 90s, but since then, she seems to have joined the the list of ladies vanishing. (Update: she was written out of the Batbooks in the early 1990s by John Wagner.)
Reading these also clued me in to a lot more about Bill Willingham's own writing "style", one more reason why I'd rather not read any of his books.
One more thing: is it just me, or, has Vicky Vale been out of sight for some time now? I know she was around in the early 90s, but since then, she seems to have joined the the list of ladies vanishing. (Update: she was written out of the Batbooks in the early 1990s by John Wagner.)
Labels: dc comics, misogyny and racism
