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natopotato's review against another edition
4.0
Cassandra no me gustaba como Batgirl (soy mas fan de Barbara que de su traje), pero este volumen me enganchó.
mapatchli's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
4.0
captwinghead's review against another edition
4.0
I really liked this one as well. That's saying something considering I knew nothing of the arc where Cain and Slade Wilson drugged Cassandra.
It was interesting to see Cassandra work with more women like her that were treated more like weapons than daughters. It made the differences between Cassandra's coping mechanisms and Rose and Marque's. Cassandra has such a screwed up family tree and it keeps branching out.
I adore Dick Grayson so watching him so distrustful of Cassandra was hard. Tim was the most trusting here aside from Babs.
Watching Cassandra fight Cain is always interesting. Her talking about how she wanted to read and talk and be a real kid broke my heart. Not gonna lie, if I was her, I think I would've let him fall.
The ending made me tear up a bit. Cassandra is definitely a Wayne. Through and through.
4.5 stars because the beginning was so exposition heavy but overall, this was an enjoyable read.
It was interesting to see Cassandra work with more women like her that were treated more like weapons than daughters. It made the differences between Cassandra's coping mechanisms and Rose and Marque's. Cassandra has such a screwed up family tree and it keeps branching out.
I adore Dick Grayson so watching him so distrustful of Cassandra was hard. Tim was the most trusting here aside from Babs.
Watching Cassandra fight Cain is always interesting. Her talking about how she wanted to read and talk and be a real kid broke my heart. Not gonna lie, if I was her, I think I would've let him fall.
The ending made me tear up a bit. Cassandra is definitely a Wayne. Through and through.
4.5 stars because the beginning was so exposition heavy but overall, this was an enjoyable read.
ari_odinson's review against another edition
3.0
One of my favorite parts about Cass Cain is the lack of dialogue throughout the plot. The fact that most of her story focuses on an internal narrative introduces an interesting side to her character. There is more of a stream of conscious feel to the storytelling of her as Batgirl. Yet the start of Batgirl: Redemption branches out too much into past events to explain or give reason to the hatred on Nightwing, Robin and Batman's part about her. This I thought was unnessesary. I felt as if the comic was hard to start reading because it allowed them to get away with a handful of comics rather than truly build the story. Cass's narrative provides enough of an explanation to what happened especially as she starts to team up with Marque and later Ravager.
Batgirl: Redemption focues on the struggle of Cass Cain and how she needs to deal with her past pain. Does she or does she not kill her father? Batman told her to never kill. But can anybody stop her if she has the chance to kill the man who caused her all the pain in her life? The story is interesting. It is a slow start due to the enormous amounts of dialogue offered to other characters in order to give them a "valid" reason to hate Cass Cain.
After Marque and Ravager leave the main storyline, it becomes more interesting because the stream of conscious develops again as Cass searches for a normal life. She wants to be loved. One of the reasons to why she is my favorite Batgirl is because she battles with such human issues. Her traumatic past along with the struggles of learning how to read and speak. Later when she meets Cain she brings up the fact that she wants this normal life building her into a fascinating character for later issues.
This is not my favorite collection. It gave me more reasons to hate Nightwing rather than more reasons to love Cass Cain. Yet the ending is worth reading because in that moment I felt satisfied with everything. It provides an in depth look into the relationship between Cass and Cain for later events along with why she is the way she is. I'm always looking forward to reading more that involves her character and regret the fact I jumped so late onto the "bandwagon" because it's a challenge to find single issues and tpb all about her.
Batgirl: Redemption focues on the struggle of Cass Cain and how she needs to deal with her past pain. Does she or does she not kill her father? Batman told her to never kill. But can anybody stop her if she has the chance to kill the man who caused her all the pain in her life? The story is interesting. It is a slow start due to the enormous amounts of dialogue offered to other characters in order to give them a "valid" reason to hate Cass Cain.
After Marque and Ravager leave the main storyline, it becomes more interesting because the stream of conscious develops again as Cass searches for a normal life. She wants to be loved. One of the reasons to why she is my favorite Batgirl is because she battles with such human issues. Her traumatic past along with the struggles of learning how to read and speak. Later when she meets Cain she brings up the fact that she wants this normal life building her into a fascinating character for later issues.
This is not my favorite collection. It gave me more reasons to hate Nightwing rather than more reasons to love Cass Cain. Yet the ending is worth reading because in that moment I felt satisfied with everything. It provides an in depth look into the relationship between Cass and Cain for later events along with why she is the way she is. I'm always looking forward to reading more that involves her character and regret the fact I jumped so late onto the "bandwagon" because it's a challenge to find single issues and tpb all about her.
nickpalmieri's review
2.0
A way for Beechen to clean up the mess he had made of Cassandra Cain in his Robin run and the "Titans East" storyline in Teen Titans. Aside from that, this book does very little. After one of the most exposition-heavy first issues I've ever read, which was a combination of recap and useless retcon, the story goes on an overly decompressed journey to find Cain. The Deathstroke/Ravager scenes were mildly interesting, as was the final issue's fight, but everything else felt like an attempt to stretch things out to six issues. It's all so shallow and devoid of most things I love about Cassandra. She's reduced to simply "assassin's daughter" here. It's no surprise she was taken off the table for the next 7 years, only to eventually be rebooted in a new continuity.
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