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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.  Despite Didio publishing a DC Nation column across all DC issues one week, reiterating that there would not be a case, different creative teams began sneaking in nods to the campaign. Some were direct references to the lack of a case, as in the Booster Gold example above.  Teen Titans #43 had Tim create a case for Steph's Spoiler costume instead. Other titles just went ahead and gave Steph's Robin costume a case in the Batcave.        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. |