Super mega Batgirl review the twelth- also, action figure reviewww!

[nevermore999]

So, I got my Steph action figure- Later I'll see if I I can manage to try to get pics for the wiki's sake- as well as geeky fanpics of her with the Cass figure (speaking of wiki, I still need someone to help co-run. Please contact me if you can!) I'm no figure expert, but I'll try a review.

Overall, this is pretty awesome (because it's a Steeeeeppph

Comments

[rdfox]

Knowing that Miller used to be a Smallville writer, I came into Steph's series with some trepidation, but the first year has utterly failed to disappoint me. Great work. There's some minor issues, sure, but I've enjoyed it thoroughly. I find his having pulled off a suitably epic twelve-issue arc to launch the title quite impressive, particularly for a first-time comics writer. (I can also see the same influence from TV writing as Paul Dini exhibits--lean storytelling, all the unnecessary fat trimmed away without cutting out any of the meat. Fast-paced, without being overly compressed, a habit TV writers display because of the rigid time limits they have to work with

[k9feline]

2 things I was glad to see absent from this issue: 1) no editor's note telling us to read Oracle: The Cure, and 2) no binary speak! :D Aside from those 2 welcome absenses, it was a good solid issue neatly wrapping up both The Flood and Batgirl Rising.

There are 3 things I look forward to when the latest issue of Batgirl comes out: your review, espanolbot's casstoon on it, and Esther's Play by Play in the 4th letter. So July was an exceptionally frustrating month for me. Here it was, Batgirl!Steph reaching her first full year, but you were stuck in California, espanolbot still hasn't done a Casstoon on it, and Esther...hasn't posted anything in the 4th Letter since June 30 (and there wasn't anything in that post to indicate she was going on a month long vacation). Still, of the three, yours is the one I look forward to and enjoy the most. If I can only get one out of three for this issue, I'm glad it's your super mega ultra Batgirl review.

Good luck finding a partner. *fingers crossed*

[aliasjack]

From what I understand, apparently Kid Eternity was killed back during McKeever's run on Teen Titans (and from this issue i'm guessing Calculator did it? i don't read TT), so this was more calling back to that than actually killing him.

and ngl i totally choked up at the "only person who ever gave a crap about me" line

[the_narration]

Given how when female characters in almost all media get into fights, their good looks are never mussed up in the slightest by any sort of injury, I do love how in this book when Steph's had a tough fight, she looks like she's been in a fight, not a beauty pagent. I do so adore her willingness to take a pasting and keep on fighting. So while her smile and cocked hip on the cover are a bit coquettish, that bleeding lip makes her seem fierce.

...but I did have to laugh a bit at Calculator's lasers that apparently tear costumes but leave skin unmarked.

Still, a pretty good end to a pretty solid year's run of Steph as Batgirl.

I'm rather glad for your wiki, because I had to look up who "Johnny C." was... I didn't remember it was the name of the bomber from that previous issue.

Possibility of Cass returning to fight alongside Steph = happy Narrator. I miss that friendship that they used to have. And Steph could use a "martial arts" mentor to go with her "brains" mentor, Babs.