Posts Tagged ‘ Batgirl ’

I mentioned recently that I thought that Batgirl might be dying in the conclusion of the Titans East storyline in Teen Titans as I felt like there was little else left to do to redeem the character somewhat.

But now I’ve been looking at the cover for Teen Titans #47 and the just-released cover for a Countdown issue in July – and looks like I’m wrong (I’m assuming this is the same funeral…):

From Teen Titans #47:

From Countdown:

Yep, that looks like Batgirl on the right in that second image. Running down who we have on these covers: Nightwing, Cyborg, Donna Troy, Beast Boy, Robin, Wonder Girl, Speedy and Batgirl are all now known to be safe. Given that Jericho (worthless character, IMO) only just returned I guess that leaves two options from the current roster – Kid Devil or Ravager.

And, as someone pointed out to me, those are roses on the coffin…

I wanted to write about Batgirl because she’s been on my mind lately.

I picked up the latest issue of Teen Titans yesterday and it was pretty good. Almost a shame to see Match devolve into a poor man’s Bizarro, but I can live with it. Also sorry to see just how low Risk has sunk – I may have been the only person who enjoyed the Jurgens-era Teen Titans book (speaking of, whatever happened to Argent? Having seen her for ages…)

But the main talking point about the issue is, of course, the revelation regarding Batgirl and why she moved to the dark side during the one year break – and if you’ve avoided the issue or internet title, stop reading now.

So Deathstroke’s been injecting her with the loopy juice to get back at the bat-family for taking his children away from him, eh?

Well…okay, I guess. I mean it explains the homicidal behavior, but as has been pointed out elsewhere, it really doesn’t explain the whole plot a while ago in Robin about her going crazy because she found out that David Cain had been training others (which actually didn’t make any sense at the time either) but okay, I can live with it – and I suspect we’ll see Deathstroke grabbing Cassie at some point in either the closing weeks of 52 or World War III.

But does this mean there’s hope for Batgirl after this? Maybe yes – what she could turn into is an even more angsty version of her former self. You think she had trouble dealing with the guy she killed when she was little? Wait till you see her now!

Maybe not.

But hey, the possibility is there.

The other big Titans news yesterday was, of course, that Geoff Johns and Tony Daniels are leaving the book, handing over the reins to Adam Beechen and an as-yet unnamed artist. While I’ll miss the team, I think that Adam’s a fine choice; his Robin work has been great – the editorially-mandated Batgirl stuff notwithstanding – and I look forward to seeing where he goes with the book.

One last thing; Newsarama has a great interview with Geoff Johns up right now looking back at the past four years, and at one point he says:

Originally we wanted Supergirl on the team, but she was in Legion and they
didn’t want to confuse people. And she was also going through some kind of
“rebellion” phase or something, so we thought — oh, we’ll just make up our own
alien character. And if we would have made Supergirl up, maybe we would have
made her more like this. And we just came up with the idea — a hero with a
mysterious background as a White Martian, but making her a very delicate
character who got her feelings hurt really bad.

Ah ha! I knew it!! I knew I wasn’t going crazy when I said that Miss Martian was the new Supergirl!!

Sometimes it’s good to be right….

A few thoughts for the end of the week…

• I really like Ed Benes’ artwork but his site sketches seem to be veering more and more towards cheesecake these days. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
• I bought my final issue of Ghost Rider last night – I like the character and the art but for my money Daniel Way’s scripts leave a bit to be desired. Like the plot and direction, but as others have said, when you have a better idea of what’s been going on from reading the recap page than reading the issue it’s time to move on.
• Loren has a poll up on his blog about Supergirl. Go vote, I’ll still be here when you get back.
• Supernova’s identity – while not a huge surprise – made me smile as the reveal should make a few DC decriers eat their words. That said, how this particular character pulled it off did involve a sleight of hand trick that may come back into play later in the series…
• Well it certainly didn’t take them long to crack the code in the back of the DC books this week, did it? And it looks like we’ve seen at least 2 of the missing 52 seconds too…
• Kalinara has a pretty interesting post up about why she doesn’t like Cassandra Cain’s Batgirl – and I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything she says. As usual.
• Looks like the variant covers and I were right – the New Avengers roster is now confirmed
• Mike Wieringo has a new DEVIANTART Gallery that’s definitely worth a browse.
• CB Cebulski is in a kimono. That is all.

And that’s it for the week – have a good weekend all!