In Fiction: Batgirl, Batwoman Become Priorities
Source: IGN.
I haven’t spent much time looking at heroic women in fiction (outside of Eve herself, of course) since we launched Eve Is My Hero, so perhaps this is a fitting introduction.
In the world of comics (to say nothing of movies, television, etc) men have always dominated heroic roles while women stayed largely on the sidelines. There’ve been exceptions, of course, and more than once there have been characters such as Batgirl, Supergirl and so on, but they’ve rarely been priority characters, nor particularly breakout kinds of characters. As a rule, they tend to play second-fiddle to their male counterparts.
Things are apparently about to change. This coming fall, DC Comics will revamp their entire comics lineup, taking all their character books back to Issue #1 status, effectively “resetting” the world. As the new world begins, some of the major changes taking effect include the new prioritization of female characters, beginning with Batgirl and the all new Batwoman, who packs a surprise or two of her own.
So-Why Eve?
In preparing for this site, I’ve been asked time and again: why Eve? Isn’t she a figure of evil, the cause of the fall of humankind, the mother of misery and suffering? And my answer is always the same: No; Eve is, in many ways, the counterpart to the Greek Hero Prometheus, who in many ways is the metaphorical parent of what humankind actually is. Prometheus, for those who don’t know, stole fire–a metaphor for Reason, logic, intellect–from the Gods and brought it to humankind, imbuing them with that faculty which elevates human intellectual activity above those of other animals and allows us to achieve the greater things we are able to.
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