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A review by spelingexpirt13
Batgirl, Volume 1: Batgirl of Burnside by Cameron Stewart
3.0
I'm afraid that there's one issue in this that means I just cannot go higher than 3 stars.
I know that they've apologised for the issue but the truth is it just should never have happened in the first place. It almost made me give up on Babs for life.
I'll say it once and then we won't go over it again: TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT OK. DON'T USE IT AS A SHITTY PLOT DEVICE AND MOST CERTAINLY DON'T USE IT IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SUGGEST TRANS IS CRIMINAL. IT'S A CLICHE AS HELL PLOT DEVICE AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. If it happens again then Babs and I are through for good,
Now moving past that and onto the volume itself. Well it's certainly no Simone. I would kill for the gritty, edgy, beautiful drawn Batgirl of the Simone era to come back. The era where we had Alysia and emotions I could relate to and the artwork made me want to frame half the panels. However, here we are. Cartoony and childish and trying way to hard to be hip. And yet, I quite like it. It will never be as good as it was but while Babs is out there kicking ass I'll be likely to come back.
I know that they've apologised for the issue but the truth is it just should never have happened in the first place. It almost made me give up on Babs for life.
I'll say it once and then we won't go over it again: TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT OK. DON'T USE IT AS A SHITTY PLOT DEVICE AND MOST CERTAINLY DON'T USE IT IN SUCH A WAY AS TO SUGGEST TRANS IS CRIMINAL. IT'S A CLICHE AS HELL PLOT DEVICE AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. If it happens again then Babs and I are through for good,
Now moving past that and onto the volume itself. Well it's certainly no Simone. I would kill for the gritty, edgy, beautiful drawn Batgirl of the Simone era to come back. The era where we had Alysia and emotions I could relate to and the artwork made me want to frame half the panels. However, here we are. Cartoony and childish and trying way to hard to be hip. And yet, I quite like it. It will never be as good as it was but while Babs is out there kicking ass I'll be likely to come back.