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DID YOU GUYS KNOW THAT ANDERSEN GABRYCH. YES THE ANDERSEN GABRYCH THAT GAVE US BOTH STEPHCASS HALLUCINATIONS + CREATED BRENDA + GAVE US THE LINE "STEPHANIE WAS MY FRIEND. I CAN'T TALK ABOUT HER, NOW." THAT ANDERSEN GABRYCH. HE'S GAY. THAT IS ALL.
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I really like Tenji as a character sans the whole plot twist reveal and maybe that's why I'm not really upset about Cass having ANOTHER secret sibling.
Plus... idk Brombal feels just like Gabrych to me, he's not doing anything Gabrych wouldn't have done, lol.
I do think people are overreacting a bit because if you actually read the issue, I think Brombal sets up Tenji so well that I'm willing to let him cook with this.
Whatever happens, I just want more of Tenji, he is a beautiful baby boy and needs to be protected.
Have you read Batman: War Games (2004) by Andersen Gabrych, Bill Willingham, and various others?
Yes (Main Book + Tie-ins)
Partially (Main Book, No Tie-ins)
Partially (Main Book, Some Tie-ins)
Partially (Some/All Tie-ins, No Main Book)
No
I've never heard of this
Can you tell us more about Gabrych and the end of the 2000 run? Why was it cancelled?
Near the end of the comic book event "Infinite Crisis", Batgirl Vol. 1 was axed. This was not due to low sales (several DC Comics at the time were selling worse and continued on when the relaunch "One Year Later" program was to hit) but for a rather sexist reason.
Back in 2010, the inker for Batgirl Vol. 1, Jesse Delperdang, posted on Deviantart the real reason the series was canceled, "canceled to make room for the coming Batwoman."
That "coming Batwoman" was an ongoing series by Devin Grayson, and would never see the light of day (DC got cold feet when the character got more publicity than they realized and decided to retool the character (which we got with Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III over in Detective Comics a few years later).
Because more than "one female bat comic" was one too many. Not only that but just last year Dan DiDio posted on Facebook the original outline he had for "OYL" regarding Cass:
Of course, DiDio always changed his mind and instead, we got the racist caricature in OYL. Nor would this be the last time DiDio would change his thoughts on what to do with Cass (2009, 2011, and 2016. Each a can of worms of themselves).
So that's why Batgirl Vol. 1 was canceled, due to sexism.
As for Gabrych, he continued to work with DC until an Omega Men mini in 2006-2007 and began to go back to his life outside DC Comics. He did come back to write a 2010 graphic novel Frogtown for the Vertigo label.
The thing is, DC Editorial under DiDio was a nasty business. Sometimes you followed the edicts or didn't and walked altogether (Kelley Puckett for a brief run with Supergirl Vol. 5 in 2008 and Dylan Horrocks with the "War Games" event when he and Grayson objected to Stephanie Brown being brutally murdered and DC taking away Babs from the comic too). Or you got nasty pricks in editing to deal with like Eddie Berganza (a noted DiDio toadie). It was just a toxic culture altogether, and I'm glad it is over when DiDio got fired in early 2020.
Two have left comics altogether (Puckett & Gabrych) and Horrocks is doing indie comic work in his native New Zealand, but avoiding the Big 2 after the "War Games" experience.
The sad truth is, if you write a Batgirl ongoing there's a 75% chance you're gonna get out of the industry. Literally, there's only a handful of Batgirl writers who've done stories on the ongoings and not left.
We just got Bryan Q. Miller back to DC in a few months (they're also reprinting the Batgirl Vol. 3 run he did), and that's probably cause most of the old regime left (see an SDCC 2020 Batgirls panel he was on with Sarah Kuhn and others where he goes onto a tale regarding his clashes with the heads over Cass).
Puckett did do a new foreword to his Batman Adventures run which got an Omnibus recently. So MAYBE there's hope for him too.
I hope I answered your question to the fullest on why Batgirl Vol. 1 ended and why Gabrych left the industry.
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