With DC Comics‘ relaunch coming in August and September, it’s still up in the air who will get the big makeover and who will get left by the wayside. What we do know so far is that most of the Bat-Family is getting in on the relaunch action. So far DC has announced 8 Batman-related titles alone, one of the most important being the return of Barbara Gordon as Batgirl in Batgirl #1.

Gail Simone talked a little bit about how excited she is to be handling Barbara’s return. Here is the official statement she released over at The Source.

 

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“Barbara Gordon is pretty much my everything. Because of the Batman TV show, she was the reason I fell in love with superheroes. Because she was a redhead who could kick ass, she is the reason I fell in love with comics. She was always forward-looking as Batgirl, a girl who was smarter than the male characters, who had class and elegance and style, as well as tough-as-nails grit. For a long time, there was simply nothing else like her in comics, and for me and a lot of other readers, her every appearance was joyful and explosive.

For many years, I got to write the character as Oracle, and there is to this day, no character who means more to me. This is classic Barbara as she was originally conceived, with a few big surprises. It’s a bit of a shock, to be sure, but we’re doing everything we can to be respectful to this character’s amazing legacy, while presenting something thrilling that a generation of comics readers will be experiencing for the first time…

…Barbara Gordon leaping, fighting, and swinging over Gotham. Now, when citizens of that city look up, they are going to see BATGIRL.

And that is absolutely thrilling.”