Run By a Cartoon

ca-the-nerd:

Batgirl 2000 is very good and i could point out the obvious things like the Shiva plotline or just how compelling batgirl is written, but I really want to mention something I don’t see people talk about is how well this book sells how powerful batgirl is. Every fight she’s in you have a glorious panel of her taking on at least 8 people at a time and the way people talk about her she might as well be inhuman.

And its really neat. Considering how much of the book was about the price that being the best costs. You see her push herself constantly, you see her giving up the idea of a life outside the mask time and time again. Most comic books focus on the super heroing but also focus on the heros personal life as down time from the action. Batgirl 2000 doesn’t have that because batgirl doesn’t have a life outside of being batgirl. She doesn’t even really go by a name at this point.

She was groomed to be the perfect killing machine, she ran away and reinvented herself as the perfect weapon for the batman cause. She is still not allowed to be a person, but instead of Cain making her, she is the one to withhold personhood from herself. Everytime she sees the light of the sun (that is a symbol for normal life here) she is blinded. The streets of Gotham at daytime are this beautiful gold while she is wearing black, removed from it.

My point is that it was amazing and I can talk about it forever. Definetly my favorite dc run so far.