New details on Simone’s Batgirl

Gail Simone revealed new details about the new Batgirl title she is writing at a SDCC panel this afternoon. Via  Newsarama:

- Jim Gordon will be in the cast

- Dick Grayson will have a big role in her life

- Another cast member is an unnamed family member

- “She has her own struggles during the day, a young woman just out of college, extremely brilliant”

- “The Killing Joke did happen, and we’re going to go through how she got from where she was to where she is now”

- “There are also things in the story of her dealing with the fact that she WAS disabled and how life is for her now”

- “She has gotten an advanced degree several years ahead of what an average person would’ve done”

- “She has a cool personal life, cool supporting cast, cool night life”