I think Gail has come with a new twist on the Ventriloquist and I think it works for Barbara. She's mixing elements of celebrity obsession, the desire to be beautiful and an almost Joker-like feel to the character and I'm not sure who the villain really is the Ventriloquist or the dummy.
Also I would have bought this book just for the cover.
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I almost picked this up; Batgirl is one of the New 52 books where each storyline is catch-as-catch-can with me, and this one (a flip-through showed me a bunch of helpless, terrified victims) just seemed a little darker than I felt like reading yesterday. (In comics, that is...I'm knee-deep in NOS4A2 right now!) It seems to me that a lot of the Bat-Books -- Batman (in "Death of the Family"), Batgirl, Batwoman, at least -- are veering as much toward horror as they are toward crime/superheroics.
I'm glad to hear the new Ventriloquist is working for you, though; hopefully I'll be more in the mood for it later on.
Hmmm ... I've been on the verge of dropping Batgirl, because it's been a little too grim for me. She also, a little too often for my taste, has to struggle mightily against her opponents and barely gets out of her battles alive, and is usually pretty battered and mangled when it's all over.
I know things should come too easily for the hero, and it's admirable that she presses on when she's overmatched, but, yeah, sometimes I would like to see her get an easy win. Plus, it's getting to be too much like what made me quit the Batman books, that you never see Barbara Gordon doing Barbara Gordon stuff.
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I almost picked this up; Batgirl is one of the New 52 books where each storyline is catch-as-catch-can with me, and this one (a flip-through showed me a bunch of helpless, terrified victims) just seemed a little darker than I felt like reading yesterday. (In comics, that is...I'm knee-deep in NOS4A2 right now!) It seems to me that a lot of the Bat-Books -- Batman (in "Death of the Family"), Batgirl, Batwoman, at least -- are veering as much toward horror as they are toward crime/superheroics.
I'm glad to hear the new Ventriloquist is working for you, though; hopefully I'll be more in the mood for it later on.
I think Batgirl started off a bit rocky but it's doing ok now. Since I don't like celebrity culture I like the angle on this villain.
Hmmm ... I've been on the verge of dropping Batgirl, because it's been a little too grim for me. She also, a little too often for my taste, has to struggle mightily against her opponents and barely gets out of her battles alive, and is usually pretty battered and mangled when it's all over.
I know things should come too easily for the hero, and it's admirable that she presses on when she's overmatched, but, yeah, sometimes I would like to see her get an easy win. Plus, it's getting to be too much like what made me quit the Batman books, that you never see Barbara Gordon doing Barbara Gordon stuff.