The Batgirls, were named not after the winged creatures of the night, but because they began as an all-female baseball team in wartime Gotham City, who branched out into vigilante crime fighting. The Girls are just some of a vast cast of heroines and villainessss aiding and abetting the Nazis who are busy securing both advanced technological and supernatural help to aid them in winning the war, featured in the 2015-2017 series DC Comics Bombshells. Apart from their athleticism and fighting prowess, with nods to their later 1960s namesake, the Batgirls also literally use their baseball bats as weapons when taking down street criminals, crooked politicians and, in this case, the owners of an orphanage who are using it as a front to develop Nazi weapons and to supply the Fatherland with child slave labour.
These panels are from DC Comics Bombshells #21 (2015). The series was inspired by a set of collectible statuettes depicting various DC Comics heroines designed by Ant Lucia. Marguerite Bennett wrote the series, supported by a number of different artists and, like Lucia’s original designs, gave the title a retro 1940s look. The Batgirls are perhaps something of a curiosity, but what’s not to love about an anti-Nazi baseball playing girl gang?
I know I poke fun at the john constantine pink triangle incident but jokes aside i'm genuinely curious what other people think about it. imo it's a great blaring example of how incapable dc is at writing john's bisexuality into a story that doesn't surround corporate pride or getting together with a man.
I tried talking about it once on tiktok (idk what i was thinking either) and a few people defended it saying things like "how else would you explain a blond hair blue eyed man being sent to a ww2 ghetto?"
didn't the joker send him there? was that not reason enough? 'the joker' was kidnapping girls and ordering soldiers around, we can't suspend our belief that she had the power to send a british soldier caught undercover as a nazi away? the pink triangle and 'bunny that doesn't breed' comment was necessary to the plot?
"I listen to the sound of bells... to water, air, and light... The laughter of the children playing down below--alive, and happy, and free. And it's then that, for the first time, I don't grieve for our son. He is here with us. He is here with the birds, and the boys, and the freedom he bought with his choice, his love, his sacrifice. I remember our son and that last thing he asked, that last question... Where do the birds go when it rains? Where do the birds go when it rains... They take shelter. And when the rain have passed... they take flight."
Earth-24: Earth 24 is currently fighting its equivalent of World War II. Like most realities in the Multiverse it is populated by counterparts of people from Earth 0, however on this Earth the majority of its active heroes are female.
Earth 24 was considered an "unknown world" for much of its history, and inhabitants of other universes knew little about it.