Oracle: Year One from Batman Chronicles #5

Congresswoman Gordon is actually my favorite “moment”. I loved the idea that she was that smart, competent and personable, and they did some interesting things with her secret identity as a result of it. I’d see more of that era in a heartbeat.

I have an unusual choice - it was Convergence: Nightwing and Oracle.

I liked her as Commissioner Gordon in Batman Beyond. Or at least I liked the idea of it. Batman Beyond had some great premises but, sometimes disappointed in execution.

Agreed. I straight up loathe Killing Joke. Hard to believe the movie adaption doubled-down on making it worse.

Yvonne Craig IS Batgirl. But Animated Series Batgirl is also awesome. Really loving the Burnside Batgirl too. My three-year-old daughter’s first attempt at naming a superhero was “Ba-ba Gowdon”. Right now she loves the Superhero Girls version.

After Prince died last year, this became my favorite Batgirl “moment”…

Kim Yale and John Ostrander got it started, but Chuck Dixon and Gail Simone drove it home that Oracle was reason #1 why you don’t fuck with people smarter than you are. I have many favorites, but one of them was during No Man’s Land when The Huntress and a group of cops lay seige to The Clocktower and Barbara’s…

Definitely didn’t enjoy the victimization of Barbara through the years.

I think Batgirl: Year One is pretty much the most perfect story starring Barbara Gordon still.

Honestly, it was the first time I saw the live action Barbara turn into Batgirl (replete with secret, turning wall in her apt.) on the 1960s Batman show. Back then, you never knew when – of if – you’d see it again. It was a revelation.

Two from Morrison’s run on JLA stand out for me (though I don’t think he actually wrote either of them):

45 doesn’t negotiate. He is a tyrant in this regard.

I don’t think Musk is Naive. I suspect he’s hoping for the best, but planning for the worst.

This is where I think Musk is being overly optimistic if not outright naive. There’s nothing about this administration that makes me think they will listen

The problem with straight carbon tax, is that it would punish poor people for being poor. A 50c per gallon gas tax would be painful for the poor who can barely afford gas. And yet the rich would continue to drive their Range Rovers and 50' yachts as if nothing has changed.

“Are you aware of a single case where Trump bowed to protests or media attacks? Better that there are open channels of communication.”

Musk actually made sense here. What really surprised me is how the focus was more on an uninteresting (and well addressed) rehash of the very basics of a carbon tax (a policy which has been seriously debated for more than 20 years) and less on the fact that the Trump administration will never allow a carbon tax. …