Comments on: PR for superheroes http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7156 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:20:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Tim Carmody http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7156/comment-page-1#comment-34307 Tim Carmody Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:10:14 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7156#comment-34307 Having had some experience getting to know people w/paralyzing spinal injuries, I'm going to be very interested in how they handle Barbara Gordon going from Oracle --> Batgirl. One thing I loved about Oracle (and love about Daredevil) is that she is a disabled superhero. Not a superhero with a secret weakness, but a superhero with a disability. Daredevil, sometimes they tip his radar super-senses too far, but Oracle was totally there. (Also, it's just an awesome idea for a superhero: a broker in information and group coordinator/communicator who isn't like an android, just a smart woman who knows how to hustle). If they keep Batgirl a disabled superhero, someone who through hard work gradually and continually pushes against her physical limitations, at least at the Daredevil yes-she-is-but-we'll-occasionally-act-like-she-isn't-or-is-even-extra-capable levels, then I'll be interested. If she presto-chango gets some kind of superhero chiropractor to make things right and we never hear about it again, then DC can go fuck itself. Having had some experience getting to know people w/paralyzing spinal injuries, I’m going to be very interested in how they handle Barbara Gordon going from Oracle –> Batgirl.

One thing I loved about Oracle (and love about Daredevil) is that she is a disabled superhero. Not a superhero with a secret weakness, but a superhero with a disability. Daredevil, sometimes they tip his radar super-senses too far, but Oracle was totally there. (Also, it’s just an awesome idea for a superhero: a broker in information and group coordinator/communicator who isn’t like an android, just a smart woman who knows how to hustle).

If they keep Batgirl a disabled superhero, someone who through hard work gradually and continually pushes against her physical limitations, at least at the Daredevil yes-she-is-but-we’ll-occasionally-act-like-she-isn’t-or-is-even-extra-capable levels, then I’ll be interested.

If she presto-chango gets some kind of superhero chiropractor to make things right and we never hear about it again, then DC can go fuck itself.

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