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A review by nickpalmieri
Batgirl, Vol. 6: Destruction's Daughter by Andy Kuhn, Andersen Gabrych, Alé Garza, Pop Mhan
3.0
Since Cassandra is a big player in the next part of my Robin read-through, I decided to skim through these issues to refresh my memory. Pretty quickly I wasn't just skimming, I was reading a whole issue, and then the next, and the next. The book is very readable in a popcorn reading kind of way, putting Cassandra on a quest where I was as eager as she was to find out the answers. And the question of her true heritage was definitely satisfactorily answered.
But I'm also a little torn on the overall direction for the character. I'm the type who prefers my Cassandra to be monosyllabic yet high-emotion, and nobody had nailed that balance since the original creative team of this series. This volume pushed her further away from that, and all these years later I still don't know how to feel about the final few twists. Is this a bold direction, or is all of her growth undermined? Then again, how much longer could the character have developed past her original concept before she became "just another costumed hero"? At the very least, I understand the direction things ended up taking.
Next up: "Robin: Wanted"!
But I'm also a little torn on the overall direction for the character. I'm the type who prefers my Cassandra to be monosyllabic yet high-emotion, and nobody had nailed that balance since the original creative team of this series. This volume pushed her further away from that, and all these years later I still don't know how to feel about the final few twists. Is this a bold direction, or is all of her growth undermined? Then again, how much longer could the character have developed past her original concept before she became "just another costumed hero"? At the very least, I understand the direction things ended up taking.
Next up: "Robin: Wanted"!