The first two or three pages of this issue – in which Barbara is busy worrying about make up and outfits – were hard for me to get through, and on the whole fairly cringe worthy. Objectively, the craft of this issue is actually pretty good. Here’s the thing: what Stewart, Fletcher, and Tarr are doing with the character isn’t for me. It seems that everyone I know who reads comics is reading (and loving) Batgirl, and taking every opportunity to try and get me to read it. So, when given the opportunity to review this issue, I took it, if only so that I could have a better understanding of why people seemed to love the book, and the new interpretation of the character, so much. The thing is, all that I’ve heard about it since that point has been positive. I saw issue #35 as a betrayal of Barbara Gordon’s character, a character that I had really fallen in love with over the course of the previous two or three years. When Cameron Stewart, Brendan Fletcher, and Babs Tarr first took over from Gail Simone on issue #35 (funny to think that it’s been almost a year at this point), I was rather unimpressed, angry even. Written by: Cameron Stewart & Brendan Fletcher
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