Project Girl Wonder


Girl-Wonder.org


In 2006 I registered the domain Girl-Wonder.org, and with a team of friends created a website for feminist comics discussion.

Within the site, I ran Project Girl Wonder, a campaign to see Stephanie Brown memorialised in the same way Jason Todd had been, with a costume case in the Batcave.

The original page of Project Girl Wonder can be seen here: Project Girl Wonder.

Girl-Wonder.org was featured in publications including Mother Jones, Bitch Magazine, and The Big Issue, and Project Girl Wonder caused no small amount of controversy with DC Comics -- Bill Willingham told a packed convention hall that he wanted to "gun [us] down", while Dan Didio maintained that "She was never really a Robin" when asked about the lack of case.

Several creative teams snuck Stephanie's costume into the Batcave, or made references to the lack of it in backgrounds of comics.

When Chuck Dixon, Stephanie's creator, became the writer on Robin again, he brought Stephanie back from the dead and offered the following in-world explanation for a lack of case:



While having Stephanie back in comics is obviously the best possible outcome, this explanation reads more like an attempt to dismiss the fans upset by the initial lack of a case than anything else. Nevertheless, Stephanie's return marked the end of Project Girl Wonder.