Last week there were rumblings that Gail Simone had left Batgirl now that her exclusive contract had finished. Gail said on her tumbler that that was not true she hadn't left Batgirl. Well it turns out that was only half true.

So Gail was kicked off of Batgirl.

You have to wonder who is going to pick up the book next, Scott Snyder, Scott Lobdell, or Jeff Lemire that seems to their solution for everything at the moment,

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

i dont know what happened to gail. batgirl is so mediocre. she had phenomenal run on secret six and wonder woman.

Wow, shocking yet then again not surprising.

Sucks that she got kicked off in such a way. I wasn't a big fan of the book though, it was arguably one of, if not my least favorite works from Simone.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

I wouldn't be surprised, DC seems to be making a lot of writers want to leave. Winnick, Rozum, Rucka, Liefeld.

Brian Cunningham is a huge dick apparently. Who fires someone through e-mail? At least have the decency to pick up a phone asshole.

@The_Tree didn't realize Judd had left DC altogether. as for Gail, I think she could use a break from DC. I subbed to Firestorm partly because of her and that book wasn't very good and Batgirl was just starting to get better with the last few issues. I'm wondering if it was all editorial - specifically the meddling hands of Didio.

@The_Tree said:

Sucks that she got kicked off in such a way. I wasn't a big fan of the book though, it was arguably one of, if not my least favorite works from Simone.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

I wouldn't be surprised, DC seems to be making a lot of writers want to leave. Winnick, Rozum, Rucka, Liefeld.

well actually Winnick left to make his own project, as far s i know he didnt left in a bad note

@The_Tree said:

Sucks that she got kicked off in such a way. I wasn't a big fan of the book though, it was arguably one of, if not my least favorite works from Simone.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

I wouldn't be surprised, DC seems to be making a lot of writers want to leave. Winnick, Rozum, Rucka, Liefeld.

Not to mention Morrison@TheCrowbar said:

Brian Cunningham is a huge dick apparently. Who fires someone through e-mail? At least have the decency to pick up a phone asshole.

exactly

Well this is unfortunate news. I'm apparently in the minority when it comes to message boards in liking Batgirl thus far, but I have to wonder what goes into the decision of booting writers off titles. It can't be simply sales, as Batgirl is doing very well right now in that department. Problems behind the scenes, perhaps... Then again, new editor, maybe he just wanted someone else he was more familiar with writing the title, who knows. Kind of a poor way to let someone know that they're not the writer anymore, though. An e-mail? Really? Couldn't pick up the phone and give a formal call?

Well at least im glad that Batgirl has the chance to be readable again

@Jonny_Anonymous:

Morrison is just stopping with monthlies. He's still going to work for DC.
BB

@tim_mik said:

@The_Tree didn't realize Judd had left DC altogether. as for Gail, I think she could use a break from DC. I subbed to Firestorm partly because of her and that book wasn't very good and Batgirl was just starting to get better with the last few issues. I'm wondering if it was all editorial - specifically the meddling hands of Didio.

From what I understand, Firestorm was hugely held back by editorial mandates, which was why Gail was so frustrated when writing it. She's the one that chose to leave that title, because of so much interference.

@Billy Batson: Oh really? I thought he was done for good.

@Ravager4: There seems to be a lot of book with the same problem in the DCnU

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@Billy Batson: Oh really? I thought he was done for good.

no, he is going to write Wonder Woman Earth One in fact and he still has Multiversity next year

@Jonny_Anonymous:

Nah. He's doing Multiversity, Wonder Woman Earth One and the likes. Probably some Vertigo work too.
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@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@The_Tree said:

Sucks that she got kicked off in such a way. I wasn't a big fan of the book though, it was arguably one of, if not my least favorite works from Simone.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

I wouldn't be surprised, DC seems to be making a lot of writers want to leave. Winnick, Rozum, Rucka, Liefeld.

Not to mention Morrison@TheCrowbar said:

Brian Cunningham is a huge dick apparently. Who fires someone through e-mail? At least have the decency to pick up a phone asshole.

exactly

At least we've still got Multiversity and his Wonder Woman project to look forward to.

@arnoldoaad said:

@The_Tree said:

Sucks that she got kicked off in such a way. I wasn't a big fan of the book though, it was arguably one of, if not my least favorite works from Simone.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

I wouldn't be surprised, DC seems to be making a lot of writers want to leave. Winnick, Rozum, Rucka, Liefeld.

well actually Winnick left to make his own project, as far s i know he didnt left in a bad note

There were rumors that he was having editorial problems, which wouldn't be surprising if true. But he's left for the foreseeable future.

I wonder if this means she will be leaving DC

@Billy Batson said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:

Nah. He's doing Multiversity, Wonder Woman Earth One and the likes. Probably some Vertigo work too.
BB

Yea for some reason I was under the impersonation he had just dropped them. Have you ever read Joe the Barbarian? I think it's my favourite thing he's written.

@The_Tree: Perez said it was also the reason for the problems on Superman

@Mercy_: Someone tweeted to her asking if the reason she was fired was because she never had enough women in the refrigerators and she said "funny you should ask that. I wonder what she meant.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@The_Tree: Perez said it was also the reason for the problems on Superman

And Liefeld and many other writers

in fact i think Brian Cunninham is one of the editors that Liefeld complained about(im not 100% sure though)

it sucks that Simone has been taken off of the title that way but I'm not really sad to see her go....hopefully we'll get a writer who makes the book feel like every issue isn't a filler issue

@The_Tree: dc will survive without liefeld. no loss.

Damn shame. I'm beginning to get annoyed with DC now. First the mess with Vertigo now firing Gail Simone, one of the top female writers, via phone? That's a low pathetic blow. Bad editors are the bane of the comic industry

@Lvenger said:

Damn shame. I'm beginning to get annoyed with DC now. First the mess with Vertigo now firing Gail Simone, one of the top female writers, via phone? That's a low pathetic blow. Bad editors are the bane of the comic industry

Via e-mail, dude. A phone would have been a step up.

no no no

@Ravager4 said:

@Lvenger said:

Damn shame. I'm beginning to get annoyed with DC now. First the mess with Vertigo now firing Gail Simone, one of the top female writers, via phone? That's a low pathetic blow. Bad editors are the bane of the comic industry

Via e-mail, dude. A phone would have been a step up.

Ah that's what I meant to say. Was thinking phone when I wrote it.

@Ravager4 said:

@Lvenger said:

Damn shame. I'm beginning to get annoyed with DC now. First the mess with Vertigo now firing Gail Simone, one of the top female writers, via phone? That's a low pathetic blow. Bad editors are the bane of the comic industry

Via e-mail, dude. A phone would have been a step up.

Yea it's a pretty scumbag way to go about it

I think we need to wait to hear more information about the situation before freaking out and hating. Obviously something has happened behind the scenes. Plus, while I have been enjoying Batgirl, I am not heartbroken about a new writer. It was never something I looked forward to seeing. Maybe she is being put on a new project, maybe it is to simply try a different writer to boost sales? We don't know enough yet.

@theTimeStreamer said:

@The_Tree: dc will survive without liefeld. no loss.

I know, I was just giving examples of writer's who've left.

Wow. DC has really been making an effort to act like aholes lately. And now they've fired one of their most talented female writers. Through email!

I'm getting real tired of this. One year ago I used to only pick up DC books, but I'm quickly loosing my intrest in the company and their editorial. Hopefully they'll straighten out eventually so I can go back to enjoying their books like I used to. Meanwhile, thank God for Marvel Now!

wow.....so what good writers does DC still have? im having trouble keeping track

Being putting off a book via email is a dick move. That shouldn't happen to anybody regardless of the quality of work they're submitting.

It wouldn't surprise me if she ends up at Marvel.

@Avenging-X-Bolt said:

wow.....so what good writers does DC still have? im having trouble keeping track

Snyder, Morrison, Lemire? 52 books 3 writers. Welcome to DC, buddy

@JairamGanpat: Morrison isn't doing ongoings at DC anymore

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@JairamGanpat: Morrison isn't doing ongoings at DC anymore

but he's still working for DC... WW Earth One and Multiversity so he's still technically under DC :p

also I would like to add James Robinson and Joshual Fialkov to my list of good writers at DC :)

@JairamGanpat said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@JairamGanpat: Morrison isn't doing ongoings at DC anymore

but he's still working for DC... WW Earth One and Multiversity so he's still technically under DC :p

also I would like to add James Robinson and Joshual Fialkov to my list of good writers at DC :)

yea but it's going to be months if not years before we see them and it's not like there a continual

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@JairamGanpat said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@JairamGanpat: Morrison isn't doing ongoings at DC anymore

but he's still working for DC... WW Earth One and Multiversity so he's still technically under DC :p

also I would like to add James Robinson and Joshual Fialkov to my list of good writers at DC :)

yea but it's going to be months if not years before we see them and it's not like there a continual

You are correct :/

hopefully his last issues of Action Comics and Batman Inc are so amazing that we won't even mind T-T

Was Batgirl bad? I haven't read much of it, but I know that Simone is a good writer. I wonder what happened.

I hope she finds employment elsewhere.

@Twentyfive: Some people love it, some people hate it. Doesn't really seem to be any middle ground.

@Ravager4 said:

@Twentyfive: Some people love it, some people hate it. Doesn't really seem to be any middle ground.

Yea but it's still a dick move getting fired by email, almost as bad as getting dumped by txt

@Juandicimo_Magnifico45 said:

I think we need to wait to hear more information about the situation before freaking out and hating. Obviously something has happened behind the scenes. Plus, while I have been enjoying Batgirl, I am not heartbroken about a new writer. It was never something I looked forward to seeing. Maybe she is being put on a new project, maybe it is to simply try a different writer to boost sales? We don't know enough yet.

I don't see how it could be that, considering Batgirl has been selling very well lately (in fact, it's been the highest selling book with a female lead for the past couple months), but yeah I'd say there was definitely something going on behind the scenes. According to Gail, she already has several future issues scripted that aren't going to be used now. New editor just came in and kicked her out for some reason, we won't know the real story until more information comes out.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@Ravager4 said:

@Twentyfive: Some people love it, some people hate it. Doesn't really seem to be any middle ground.

Yea but it's still a dick move getting fired by email, almost as bad as getting dumped by txt

No doubt. What's worse is that when Mike Nelson tweeted her, asking if she didn’t “put enough women in refrigerators or something?”, Gail replied “Funny you should say that.” And I think it was at that point that everyone following her on Twitter collectively shat themselves and asked “Oh dear God, DC, what have you done this time?!”

@Ravager4 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@Ravager4 said:

@Twentyfive: Some people love it, some people hate it. Doesn't really seem to be any middle ground.

Yea but it's still a dick move getting fired by email, almost as bad as getting dumped by txt

No doubt. What's worse is that when Mike Nelson tweeted her, asking if she didn’t “put enough women in refrigerators or something?”, Gail replied “Funny you should say that.” And I think it was at that point that everyone following her on Twitter collectively shat themselves and asked “Oh dear God, DC, what have you done this time?!”

yea I seen that, something bad is going down at DC editorial

WHAT!?!?

That is awful. Truly. From Gail's tumblr I can tell she'd been having problems with DC lately...But not to this extent. Ugh. F*ck you DC for kicking off one of the best writers you had (let alone the best female writer)....Btw I know Batgirl wasn't exactly the best but you can't deny her run on Wonder Woman & SS were astounding. And BoP of course.

And Gail is one of those select writers that have a following of their own. So I don't see logic behind this. But then again, idk....I don't work for DC. I'm saddened because she inspired me a lot and got me in to comics the first place (BoP series) and just...ugh. She'd written out Babs' recovery story too :(

Being putting off a book via email is a dick move. That shouldn't happen to anybody regardless of the quality of work they're submitting.

It wouldn't surprise me if she ends up at Marvel.

@Mercy_: This may be a typecast but c'mon...She has to do something with the New Defenders. She is a self-confessed Misty stan.

@Twentyfive: Some people love it, some people hate it. Doesn't really seem to be any middle ground.

@Mercy_ said:

@Ravager4

@Twentyfive: Some people love it, some people hate it. Doesn't really seem to be much middle ground.

I'd be the middle ground on that. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't my favorite. I think Gail did well with what she was given, but it wasn't her usual standard ala BOP vol 1 and Secret Six, both of which rank in my favorite runs of all time.

Better? :)

Gail Simone on a black Widow ongoing.