Nov 25, 2025
In or around 2014, after about a decade of doing everything in their power to shake female reader, leadership at DC decided—perhaps because the reboot titles had been hemorrhaging sales—that maybe it was actually okay for women and girls to like comic books. In order to gain more traction with these demographics, the company released a slew of titles that reimagined classic characters to fit into middle grade female empowerment narratives that were as shallow as they were condescending (your Batgirl of Bed-Stuys), or as fan service catering to the quote-unquote “female gaze” (your Graysons). Included in the latter category was, for some reason, of all DC’s thousands upon thousands of characters, Lobo.
