Gotham Girl's return sits at the messy intersection of trauma and superpowers
Gotham Girl was one of several young, new heroes introduced with much fanfare in 2016, but since then she's had a rough road. Now she's back on her own two feet, and starring in her own three-part story beginning in April's Detective Comics #1059.
The three-pack backup serial 'Gotham Girl: Interrupted' will be written by Sina Grace, with art from David Lapham and colorist Trish Mulvihill.
"Claire Clover's reintegration into society after an extended stay at Arkham is thrown a curveball by way of a gossip site using her Gotham Girl moniker to air the city's dirty laundry," Grace tells Newsarama. "Gotham Girl has to keep it together long enough to find out who's running the site while fending off half of Gotham City's criminal underworld, all while maintaining appearances as a normal high school girl that Batman need not worry about."
The title, 'Gotham Girl: Interrupted,' is taken from the 1993 memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. The book chronicles her experiences as a young woman in the psychiatric hospital system after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. You might know it best for the 1999 film adaptation starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.
As Grace tells Newsarama, this DC serial will also be delving into mental health issues - something that was a key component of the character since her creation in 2016 by Tom King and David Finch.
"Many of the conversations I see about mental health in pop culture are focused on 'getting better,' which feels like an incredibly unfair angle for those whose struggles don't go away with a pill or talk therapy," says Grace. "Gotham Girl is a story that redefines and brings heroism to the concept of 'getting by.' Looking at her entire backstory, there's
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