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A review by captwinghead
Batgirl: Stephanie Brown, Volume 2 by Bryan Q. Miller, Grant Morrison
4.0
4.5 Stars
Stephanie continues to be one of the happiest gems in the doomy, gloomy Batfamily. She and Dick somehow beat the odds and came out more shiney happy than the rest of the bats. This series is so much fun! I love Stephanie's personality, her perseverance and her clever ideas.
Every Batgirl has their own style:
- Babs had a bit more martial arts skill than Stephanie and she was an academic so I found some of her musings and narrative boxes to be a bit more full of literary classics and criminology based.
- Cass is the best fighter in the DC universe. Her stories were mostly visually because she didn't speak for YEARS and while she was a very internal character, a lot of her personality was on the page.
Stephanie is the most regular of all the batfamily. I don't mean that at all as an insult. Unlike Dick and Tim, she never really felt like she had Batsy's approval and over time, she stopped trying to get it. She fights to prove a point to herself: she is just as worthy to wear the Bat symbol as the others are. She may not have the physical prowess or quite the same level of detective skills but she is a great Batgirl. Stephanie's strength is that she's great with people. Dick can be as well but I always felt Stephanie understood them in a way he didn't.
There are some great moments between Steph and Babs, her mom, Proxy and the detective she bonds with. There's guest appearances from Squire, Bats, Supergirl and my favorite little demon. Stephanie's relationship with Damian is such an interesting one because she was the only girl Damian really got to know for a long time. While I still don't quite agree with Miller writing Damian as a chauvinist at times, I liked that Stephanie came to understand that Damian really didn't have a childhood and some of his dick-ishness is just him having no clue how to be around people.
So, it's definitely a recommend. I love this series and it's a shame they never got around to that team of supergirls.
I will say, once again: wouldn't it have been nice if a woman wrote this because there were still some moments where I read and wondered if Miller was just writing based on his assumption of what young women talked about all day long.
Stephanie continues to be one of the happiest gems in the doomy, gloomy Batfamily. She and Dick somehow beat the odds and came out more shiney happy than the rest of the bats. This series is so much fun! I love Stephanie's personality, her perseverance and her clever ideas.
Every Batgirl has their own style:
- Babs had a bit more martial arts skill than Stephanie and she was an academic so I found some of her musings and narrative boxes to be a bit more full of literary classics and criminology based.
- Cass is the best fighter in the DC universe. Her stories were mostly visually because she didn't speak for YEARS and while she was a very internal character, a lot of her personality was on the page.
Stephanie is the most regular of all the batfamily. I don't mean that at all as an insult. Unlike Dick and Tim, she never really felt like she had Batsy's approval and over time, she stopped trying to get it. She fights to prove a point to herself: she is just as worthy to wear the Bat symbol as the others are. She may not have the physical prowess or quite the same level of detective skills but she is a great Batgirl. Stephanie's strength is that she's great with people. Dick can be as well but I always felt Stephanie understood them in a way he didn't.
There are some great moments between Steph and Babs, her mom, Proxy and the detective she bonds with. There's guest appearances from Squire, Bats, Supergirl and my favorite little demon. Stephanie's relationship with Damian is such an interesting one because she was the only girl Damian really got to know for a long time. While I still don't quite agree with Miller writing Damian as a chauvinist at times, I liked that Stephanie came to understand that Damian really didn't have a childhood and some of his dick-ishness is just him having no clue how to be around people.
So, it's definitely a recommend. I love this series and it's a shame they never got around to that team of supergirls.
I will say, once again: wouldn't it have been nice if a woman wrote this because there were still some moments where I read and wondered if Miller was just writing based on his assumption of what young women talked about all day long.