Ray Fawkes to Fill In For Two Issues on DC's "Batgirl"

[Captain Jim]

I still don't understand what was so horrible about the way she was fired. How is a phone call any better than an email?

A phone call is personal; an email is impersonal. You have to interact with a person when you talk to them on the phone. You may have to answer difficult questions. Consequently, it can also be uncomfortable. You're exposing yourself to their emotions. You can't be exactly sure how they'll react, but you know it won't be pleasant. Still, common human decency and respect requires you to do it anyway. Firing someone by email is what a coward does. "I don't want to go through the nasty experience of having to talk to them, so I'll just deliver the bomb and be gone."

I don't know what kind of editor this guy is, but this sort of behavior tells me what kind of human being he is.

[carabas]

Are you speaking for her now? I thought Gail said Batgirl was her dream job.

Gail is an avatar of tact and diplomacy, and has probably said that every gig she's ever had was her dream job.

She's definitely said it about Birds Of Prey.
And she's definitely said she thought that reverting Babs to Batgirl was a really bad idea.

[Captain Jim]

she's definitely said she thought that reverting Babs to Batgirl was a really bad idea.

Sorry, I don't remember that at all. And it seems really odd that she would sign on to write a title that she thought was a "really bad idea."

[vampiric_cannibal]

Sorry, I don't remember that at all. And it seems really odd that she would sign on to write a title that she thought was a "really bad idea."

Something along the lines of 'I'll do a better job on this than anyone else'. I don't think she thought it was an awful idea, but she disliked the collateral damage.