What Women Don’t Want - Feb 15, 2007 - 11:39am
I'm a gal who regularly drops about 100-200 bucks a month on comics, and I'm not reading Supergirl. I have no plans to, either, and I love the superhero comics. If DC wants to know what I read (and what so many of my female peers read, as well)... I think they will be shocked by our number one books. Yeah, yeah, we've all read the usual girl-suspects ( Fables, Y, Sandman, Powers, Runaways) ... but I'm telling you right now, my favorite comic character is Batman. And I'm not alone in my girlie-love for the Bat family. DC already has us reading their books, they just don't seem to know it. The Gotham Knights run, especially Devin Grayson's part of it, is often quoted as the run that got many of us into comics. These guys always think that girls want to read about other girls being powerful or having some kind of romance. Er.. I guess that's fine. I'll read it if it's well written and the art (ie.Michael Turner) doesn't make me hold my nose. But I would much rather read about Batman solving crimes and kicking ass and, yes (here's the girly part) growing as a person and dealing with the relationships in his life. And he does all that already without DC realizing girls are reading... even though he's supposedly a character being written for the fanboys. Just throwing that in there.

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