Hey Gail, Why is it that you never had a Bat on the Birds of Prey team, like Cassandra, Stephanie, or Kate? I know it might not have worked with the whole Bird theme but I was wondering what your reasons were, if there were any

Urgh.

I fought for ages to get Cass on the team. I didn’t have Steph or Kate because they already had books when I was doing Bop and we were trying to spotlight female characters who didn’t have a book already, who didn’t have a spotlight.

Cassandra had lost the Batgirl mantle…we fought, begged, bribed and pleaded to get her. When they did the new52 and she was benched, I argued with higher-ups CONSTANTLY trying to find ways where they would let me bring her back. I offered to do books I wouldn’t normally write JUST so she wouldn’t be on the bench. To no avail. 

It was not for lack of trying. And I used Stephanie and Kate whenever I could, but they had a spotlight where the rest of the BOPpers did not.