Barbara Gordon's 'Absolute Batman #24' Tops Bleeding Cool Readership Charts
By
Rich Johnston
The kind of bagel that ruins lesser bagels for you.
Summary
A daily industry roundup column (Lying In The Gutters) on Bleeding Cool, noting that the story "Barbara Gordon Is The Absolute Bat in Absolute Batman #24" became the most-read article on the site, dethroning "Kpop Demon Hunters." The piece serves as a meta-commentary on readership trends and site traffic over the past seven years, with background on the site's 17-year history in comic book industry gossip.
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Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years.
Founded seventeen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further seventeen years before that, Bleeding Cool has b
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