![]() It's colorful, unique, and really pops off the page. Maybe it is, and I just need to accept that and move on. I found myself wondering at several points if this really IS Babs, or if it's another character altogether. A good chunk of her appeal comes from her bookish personality, which seems to have been all but dropped here. Maybe I'm just old and bitter, but Babs partying all night and using text lingo just feels "off" on a fundamental level. ![]() ![]() A lot of the attempts at relating to a younger crowd came off as "hip dad" (e.g., people using hashtags in actual conversat. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing but it felt so.forced. Besides, a younger, fresher take on Batgirl is a nice antidote to all the excessive brooding elsewhere in the DC universe.Or so I thought.Right off the bat (hurr), it's clear this is going for a teenage girl audience. Review 1: So I'm still sour over the New 52, but I was at the comic store buying gifts when I spotted Batgirl doing a selfie and something inside me just said, "Give it another shot." I was pretty annoyed by how the New 52 handled Oracle/Batgirl, but it's been years and I think I'm at the point now where I can accept that this is a new universe and new rules and change isn't a bad thing. ![]()
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