Oracle, Take 2

[davidgillon]

How the hell did I miss this! Marieke Nijkamp is going to be writing Oracle: Rising - teen Barbara Gordon post Joker shooting.

I mean it's not as if I know Marieke or -- hang on, yes I do.

And Marieke's disabled, actually a bendy like me, so it's being written by someone with a clue.

I actually saw that by following up her tweet about Unbroken, the anthology of tales with disabled teen protagonists she edited being on the Kirkus best YA of 2018 list.

Comments

[sovay]

And Marieke's disabled, actually a bendy like me, so it's being written by someone with a clue.

That's cool!

Is that a first for the character?

[davidgillon]

Is that a first for the character?

I'm not actually sure. I am sure her creation, and fixing her when DC got bored with having a wheelchair-using superhero, weren't done by disabled writers.

[jesse_the_k]

Whoo hooo!

Do your comic book stores do pull list nonsense like they do here?

[davidgillon]

I think so, but to be honest I've never really been a comics buyer. I probably own no more than half a dozen issues total, plus a few graphic novels.