Brenden Fletcher

It's always nice to have a good news day in comics -- and DC probably agrees after the rapturous reception to yesterday's announcement of the new direction for Batgirl from the new creative team of Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, Jordie Bellaire, and new discovery Babs Tarr (who we've been telling you about for aaages). Judging by all the Batgirl fan-art produced since yesterday's announcement, we feel sure there's a big appetite out there for a Batgirl comic deliberately designed to appeal to a female and family audience -- and for Batgirl's smartly designed and stylish new costume. With credit to Batgirl fan ComixBookGurl for her Twitter call-to-action, we collected all the new Batgirl fan art we could find in order to celebrate what may be the best Batgirl... ever?

The past few weeks have brought some truly surprising and exciting announcements from the Batman corner of the the DC Universe, but this one tops them all. Today it was announced that Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher would be taking over as the new writers of Batgirl, with Stewart providing covers and layouts for new comics artist Babs Tarr. Any one of those creators alone would be a pretty big deal deal, but while Stewart and Fletcher are pretty intriguing choices for the adventures of Barbara Gordon, the biggest news by far is Tarr, who will be best known to ComicsAlliance readers for her incredible cosplay-inspiring art and frequent appearances in the Best Art Ever (This Week) feature. This is, to say the least, a move that we never saw coming but are completely in favor of.

Between three monthly titles, a spot in the Justice League, an ongoing weekly series in print and an ongoing weekly digital-first series, you might be under the woefully mistaken impression that there were enough comics about Batman going around to satisfy everyone's needs. If you are, then you, my friend, are wrong. We always need more Batman. And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so. Today, DC Comics announced not one, but three new Batman comics, set to be released soon: Arkham Manor by Gerry Duggan and Shawn Crystal, Gotham Academy by Becky Cloonan, Brendan Fletcher and Karl Kerschl, and a digital-first collection of Jiro Kuwata's Bat-Manga, translated and reprinted in its entirety for the first time since it was originally published in Japan in 1966.

Ubisoft has announced that Cameron Stewart, Karl Kerschl and Brenden Fletcher are teaming for Assassin’s Creed : Brahman, the latest comic set in the AC universe following 2011's The Fall and 2013's The Chain.