On Friday, DC Entertainment released several Joker variant covers for their June comics. Among them was this homage to “The Killing Joke,” drawn by Rafael Albuquerque, for "Batgirl" #41. There was immediately fierce backlash. Since October, when Batgirl got both a new costume and a new creative team, the comic has been aimed at female teens and young women. Having Batgirl in tears at the hands of a man who, perhaps, crippled and tortured her was considered an extremely controversial situation by many. DC Comics and the creative team behind Batgirl agreed and pulled the cover. One of Batgirl's writers took to Twitter to explain the decision. "The cover was not seen or approved by anyone on Team Batgirl and was completely at odds with what we are doing with the comic" was one of his many tweets on the subject. Neither DC or anyone on Batgirl’s creative team have yet said if the creative director will create another Joker variant for the issue or if "batgirl" #41 will simply be variant-less this June.
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May 2015
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