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jlewenda 's review for:
Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl of Burnside (the New 52)
by Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart
This review isn't much of a review, but more a series of thoughts that are haphazardly put together. I don't have the energy to deal with DC anymore. I used to be able to talk coherently about all the things they ruin with their grubby little fingers, but they've fudged so much up that I just give up.
This is not the Barbara Gordon I knew.
But then again, most people reading this aren't used to Babs. Most people who are reading this are new to comics, and new to Batgirl.
If so, that's great. I'm glad people are getting into comics.
But I'm disappointed with how far from the mark they made Babs. She's completely unrecognisable.
Barbara Gordon wouldn't wear a leather jacket to a fight, even if all her gadgets were destroyed.
She wouldn't leave her thesis saved onto only one source.
etc etc
What really gets me is that this reads like someone young and juvenile. If they wanted to use Babs so much, the least they could do was make this a pre52/pre Killing Joke, post-Zero Year Babs. But no, this is after she's been batgirl for years, after she was shot and paralysed for a few years, and after the several years that she was the N52 Batgirl. Which brings me to ask:
why is she 21 years old? I thought she was meant to be 23 years old? If she's 21, how old does that make Dick (since he's canonically younger than her), and Jason for that matter? How does her timeline make sense with all that? Does DC even know how old their characters are anymore?
I'm just sick of bad writing in comics.
And I'm sick of DC 'rebooting' characters and forgetting their importance to the world.
Barbara is one of the most important characters in the DCU because she was paralysed, because she was Oracle. But once again, we see the erasure of this iconic character. I thought it was bad during the N52 reboot, but this is an all new low.
This is not the Barbara Gordon I knew.
But then again, most people reading this aren't used to Babs. Most people who are reading this are new to comics, and new to Batgirl.
If so, that's great. I'm glad people are getting into comics.
But I'm disappointed with how far from the mark they made Babs. She's completely unrecognisable.
Barbara Gordon wouldn't wear a leather jacket to a fight, even if all her gadgets were destroyed.
She wouldn't leave her thesis saved onto only one source.
etc etc
What really gets me is that this reads like someone young and juvenile. If they wanted to use Babs so much, the least they could do was make this a pre52/pre Killing Joke, post-Zero Year Babs. But no, this is after she's been batgirl for years, after she was shot and paralysed for a few years, and after the several years that she was the N52 Batgirl. Which brings me to ask:
why is she 21 years old? I thought she was meant to be 23 years old? If she's 21, how old does that make Dick (since he's canonically younger than her), and Jason for that matter? How does her timeline make sense with all that? Does DC even know how old their characters are anymore?
I'm just sick of bad writing in comics.
And I'm sick of DC 'rebooting' characters and forgetting their importance to the world.
Barbara is one of the most important characters in the DCU because she was paralysed, because she was Oracle. But once again, we see the erasure of this iconic character. I thought it was bad during the N52 reboot, but this is an all new low.