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A review by alice_digest
Batgirl, Vol. 5: Deadline by Javier Garrón, Gail Simone, Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Glapion, Fernando Pasarín, Robert Gill, Matt Ryan
4.0
This is the last in this New 52 run of Batgirl.. before they fucked it up all up with that fucking awful new one that bears no resembles to the character of Barabara Gordon... But anyway.. I won't rant about how terrible that is here..
This Gail Simone penned Batgirl series has been BRILLIANT. So I'm a bit disappointed by this last volume.. but over all it's still a great series. There's just a lot of WTF issues in this collection.
The first one I have no idea what the hell is going on. It's some weird alternate/dream/vision reality where the Joker sells ice cream and everybody is happy and Barbara wears a stupid while suit and is called Bluebelle for some reason?! You could skip that one.
Then we just jump right into this vampire story with some guy called Silver who I think is from another series. That was OK. Then there is a story where some college kids get strapped by some demon nightmare thing they summoned, and Batgirl has to save them. Again it was OK but a bit pointless. The story with Poison Ivy was kind of cool because I like that character.
There was also one where she has to save Alysia and her eco-activist friends from Ragdoll. That was better than expected and I actually think Ragdoll is a pretty cool, creepy assassin!
Finally we get to the conclusion of the Knightfall arc that has continued the whole run of this series. Knightfall as a big night planned to cleanse the city of all its criminals.. which I guess is a bad thing... Babs teams up with Black Canary, Huntress and enlists a lot of her other superheroine friends to help with the final fight. She also uses some of her Oracle computer skills which was cool. In the end she decides to leave Gotham with Alysia.. and I guess they're heading to Burnside to destroy everything I love about Batgirl..
The final story is the kind of alternate reality one-shot thing I HATE. It's some Futere's End thing where she's not a hero yet and steps up to help a group of survivors escape the city which is flooding. Again it feel a bit pointless.
This Gail Simone penned Batgirl series has been BRILLIANT. So I'm a bit disappointed by this last volume.. but over all it's still a great series. There's just a lot of WTF issues in this collection.
The first one I have no idea what the hell is going on. It's some weird alternate/dream/vision reality where the Joker sells ice cream and everybody is happy and Barbara wears a stupid while suit and is called Bluebelle for some reason?! You could skip that one.
Then we just jump right into this vampire story with some guy called Silver who I think is from another series. That was OK. Then there is a story where some college kids get strapped by some demon nightmare thing they summoned, and Batgirl has to save them. Again it was OK but a bit pointless. The story with Poison Ivy was kind of cool because I like that character.
There was also one where she has to save Alysia and her eco-activist friends from Ragdoll. That was better than expected and I actually think Ragdoll is a pretty cool, creepy assassin!
Finally we get to the conclusion of the Knightfall arc that has continued the whole run of this series. Knightfall as a big night planned to cleanse the city of all its criminals.. which I guess is a bad thing... Babs teams up with Black Canary, Huntress and enlists a lot of her other superheroine friends to help with the final fight. She also uses some of her Oracle computer skills which was cool. In the end she decides to leave Gotham with Alysia.. and I guess they're heading to Burnside to destroy everything I love about Batgirl..
The final story is the kind of alternate reality one-shot thing I HATE. It's some Futere's End thing where she's not a hero yet and steps up to help a group of survivors escape the city which is flooding. Again it feel a bit pointless.