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A review by xsleepyshadows
Batgirl, Vol. 2: Son of Penguin by Hope Larson
4.0
This is continuing from her last adventures in Japan and after the start of her new company and seeing how it affected Burnside in a negative manner. She cares a lot for her community and she decides to switch her major to library science! I'm really glad they decided to do this and the transition they took I thought was smooth and provided good character development for her. I really still love this new bat girl of Burnside version of bat girl, they show her doing problem solving and her balancing her superhero life and personal college life really well, I feel like they have equal time in the story and cover good topics for more modern problems. The art in these books still have a really nice pop of color and I feel the inspiration of Babs Tarr's past work on the art still running through the pages! The illustrations are really nice, has some great color and movement to these characters. The illustrator for this was a excellent choice.
The really only big thing that annoys me in this is the relationships, they are still making her fall in love with villains or suspicious people that she she knows she shouldn't get involved with. I feel like this would be different if it was a undercover to get information way, but it's always an actually dating type of deal. I just don't understand why because we see her intelligence through the series? If this just happens to be one of her character traits for falling for the bad guy it's kinda annoying.
Also the only plot bit that bothered me was [ If the penguin's son was jealous of Dick and Babs going on a motorcycle ride together and could see and identify the motorcyclist (or at least the bike and helmet) Then when bat girl tricked him to get him to the park and identified herself...couldn't he deduce easily bat-girls identity as Barbara? (hide spoiler)]
I was excited to see Nightwing in this book, and I hope they get together at some point. He's my fav. ~Ashley
The really only big thing that annoys me in this is the relationships, they are still making her fall in love with villains or suspicious people that she she knows she shouldn't get involved with. I feel like this would be different if it was a undercover to get information way, but it's always an actually dating type of deal. I just don't understand why because we see her intelligence through the series? If this just happens to be one of her character traits for falling for the bad guy it's kinda annoying.
Also the only plot bit that bothered me was [ If the penguin's son was jealous of Dick and Babs going on a motorcycle ride together and could see and identify the motorcyclist (or at least the bike and helmet) Then when bat girl tricked him to get him to the park and identified herself...couldn't he deduce easily bat-girls identity as Barbara? (hide spoiler)]
I was excited to see Nightwing in this book, and I hope they get together at some point. He's my fav. ~Ashley