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A review by alice_digest
Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl of Burnside (the New 52) by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart
1.0
I expected to like this but wow, I really hated it. What have they done to Barbara! Why is Batgirl now an annoying hipster? And the villains in this are laughable, they're so cartoony its almost childish and yet there is a weird imbalance with the more adult content about drinking, hangovers, sex and dating apps.
I do not like the new bat suit, the doc martens and leather jacket combination is so try-hard hipster it upsets me. All the integration of social media - it's everywhere - into the art and the story grated on me too. I'm clearly too old for this, I felt like to was trying hard to be cool and I hated it. The idea of Batgirl being on Instagram is just wrong to me.
The villains are ridiculous and really shouldn't have been as a much of a challenge to Barbara. I don't know who my *favorite* was.. the cos-players from an obscure anime show or the crazy cross-dressing artist guy. There was also a little homage to the Bling Ring burglaries. They all added up to reveal the 'real' villain which felt like a story so overdone it was almost a face palm.
Barbara is pretty winy and selfish. I feel like shes has a total personality transplant. Black Canary is in this but has the unreasonable, bitchy adult character always nagging at Barbara for various reasons. She is justifiably upset that Barbara's usage of her storage lock up without asking lead to all her stuff being lost in a fire. She always has a grumpy face in the art and her function is mostly to stop the cool college kids from having fun. This bugged me too. Oh then she just randomly joins a rock band.
Also not a fan of the art style, that's my personal preference.
REALLY not for me, I was almost offended by it!
Such a shame because I really enjoyed the Gail Simone [b:Batgirl, Vol. 1: The Darkest Reflection|13228436|Batgirl, Vol. 1 The Darkest Reflection|Gail Simone|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1361895856s/13228436.jpg|18420381] and now that's dead in favour of Histper Batgirl.
Just glad I read it and work and didn't buy it myself!
I do not like the new bat suit, the doc martens and leather jacket combination is so try-hard hipster it upsets me. All the integration of social media - it's everywhere - into the art and the story grated on me too. I'm clearly too old for this, I felt like to was trying hard to be cool and I hated it. The idea of Batgirl being on Instagram is just wrong to me.
The villains are ridiculous and really shouldn't have been as a much of a challenge to Barbara. I don't know who my *favorite* was.. the cos-players from an obscure anime show or the crazy cross-dressing artist guy. There was also a little homage to the Bling Ring burglaries. They all added up to reveal the 'real' villain which felt like a story so overdone it was almost a face palm.
Barbara is pretty winy and selfish. I feel like shes has a total personality transplant. Black Canary is in this but has the unreasonable, bitchy adult character always nagging at Barbara for various reasons. She is justifiably upset that Barbara's usage of her storage lock up without asking lead to all her stuff being lost in a fire. She always has a grumpy face in the art and her function is mostly to stop the cool college kids from having fun. This bugged me too. Oh then she just randomly joins a rock band.
Also not a fan of the art style, that's my personal preference.
REALLY not for me, I was almost offended by it!
Such a shame because I really enjoyed the Gail Simone [b:Batgirl, Vol. 1: The Darkest Reflection|13228436|Batgirl, Vol. 1 The Darkest Reflection|Gail Simone|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1361895856s/13228436.jpg|18420381] and now that's dead in favour of Histper Batgirl.
Just glad I read it and work and didn't buy it myself!