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THB #197: Batgirl… Whose Baby Are You?

THB #197: Batgirl… Whose Baby Are You?

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David Poland
Aug 03, 2022
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THB #197: Batgirl… Whose Baby Are You?
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I am so over this story.

Well, I was. Will be again after tomorrow.

As the news of the erasure of Batgirl and Scoob 2: Holiday Haunt floated out yesterday, those pesky kids were out in full force, spinning all kinds of theories about what was going on over at Warner Bros Discovery. But Batman himself, being old, remembered the first rule of being a Hollywood detective… Follow The Money.

And to their credit, the trades did. They were told, as they asked everyone they could, that there was a tax benefit to WBD from dumping the two titles. But they clearly, from the writing, didn’t really understand what exactly that meant. So they did what everyone else was doing and danced around the fire, spinning yearns about every sort of intention.

But it became clearer, if you worked through it. WBD has some sort of agreement that may be directly connected to tomorrows Q2 financial results release, that apparently allows WBD to “return goods” to AT&T that they don’t want to own under their corporate…

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