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A review by crookedtreehouse
Batgirl, Vol. 1: Silent Knight by Kelley Puckett
2.0
The concept of Cassandra Cain as Batgirl is one of the best ideas in the Batman chronology of the 90s. A teenager who was raised as an assassin who is fluent in body language but can't speak or read or understand oral languages.
There are four or five messy issues where Puckett cuts quickly between scenes and appears to be trying to tell the story with as few words as possible. It's an interesting conceit but it's not executed well. It feels badly written as opposed to artfully written, which is a shame. Telling a story with incredibly limited language is very difficult, though, and I appreciate Puckett's effort, if that's what he was trying to do.
After that, however, a psychic character is introduced who instantly scrambles her brains so that she can understand language (but still has trouble speaking it) and, to compensate, loses some of her ability to predict body movement. This happens way too early in the story and completely robs the title of its hook. Now it's just another generic bat book. Puckett attempts to walk this back a bit a few issues later but it's too late, the magic disappears before the series really got off the ground.
I can't really recommend it to anyone, even though I had high hopes for the story.
There are four or five messy issues where Puckett cuts quickly between scenes and appears to be trying to tell the story with as few words as possible. It's an interesting conceit but it's not executed well. It feels badly written as opposed to artfully written, which is a shame. Telling a story with incredibly limited language is very difficult, though, and I appreciate Puckett's effort, if that's what he was trying to do.
After that, however, a psychic character is introduced who instantly scrambles her brains so that she can understand language (but still has trouble speaking it) and, to compensate, loses some of her ability to predict body movement. This happens way too early in the story and completely robs the title of its hook. Now it's just another generic bat book. Puckett attempts to walk this back a bit a few issues later but it's too late, the magic disappears before the series really got off the ground.
I can't really recommend it to anyone, even though I had high hopes for the story.