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A review by booksnarks
Batgirl, Vol. 4: Wanted by Gail Simone, Marguerite Bennett, Jonathan Glapion, Fernando Pasarín, Derlis Santacruz, Carlos Rodríguez, Daniel Sampere
2.0
In my review for Vol.3 Death of the Family I talked about how things would change going forward and how exciting I was to read all about it.
Her father is then left to pick up the pieces and hunt Barbara down for murder. He basically tells Batman to step out of the way and not protect her or cover of her. Although at this point the relationship between Barbara and Bruce is so broken that I don't think he really cares for her situation. And that's that really bugged me aside from her relationship with her dad which I will come to in a minute. Bruce does nothing! I mean Barbara goes ahead and does the unthinkable and he doesn't do anything! He doesn't go to talk to her, he doesn't seek her out. She doesn't seek him out either for that matter. I just don't buy it. They're suppose to be family! And I think that's the underlying problem: the story falls apart when the Bat Family is broken. They've been divided for such a long time, it's time to bring them back! You hear me new 52!! I get it, Batman has his own problems but still.....
Not to mention that they build up this great showdown between Barbara and her father and Barbara and her psyche, and then it doesn't go anywhere. It is so disappointing! It's was just not very good.... at all. They need to fix things and soon because I love Batgirl, I really don't want to hate her, but I am starting to. I almost wished that Barbara has stayed as Oracle even after her recovery. Because Barbara Gordon is fucking awesome!
Spoiler
And as we know from Vol. 3 Barbara finally snaps and kills her brother.Her father is then left to pick up the pieces and hunt Barbara down for murder. He basically tells Batman to step out of the way and not protect her or cover of her. Although at this point the relationship between Barbara and Bruce is so broken that I don't think he really cares for her situation. And that's that really bugged me aside from her relationship with her dad which I will come to in a minute. Bruce does nothing! I mean Barbara goes ahead and does the unthinkable and he doesn't do anything! He doesn't go to talk to her, he doesn't seek her out. She doesn't seek him out either for that matter. I just don't buy it. They're suppose to be family! And I think that's the underlying problem: the story falls apart when the Bat Family is broken. They've been divided for such a long time, it's time to bring them back! You hear me new 52!! I get it, Batman has his own problems but still.....
Not to mention that they build up this great showdown between Barbara and her father and Barbara and her psyche, and then it doesn't go anywhere. It is so disappointing! It's was just not very good.... at all. They need to fix things and soon because I love Batgirl, I really don't want to hate her, but I am starting to. I almost wished that Barbara has stayed as Oracle even after her recovery. Because Barbara Gordon is fucking awesome!