Creative Team
Writer: Adam Beechen
Pencils: J. Calafiore
Inks: Jack Purcell
Art Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Story Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Overall Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Another solid mini-series from DC. Overall the series was good but I really liked this final issue. The battle between David Cain and his daughter Cassandra (Batgirl) was very well done. Cain tries to use get Cassandra to doubt herself. During the course of the battle, Cassandra demonstrates the fact that she is more like Batman than her father. This was Batgirl’s time in the spotlight and she shows that she has what it takes to be a hero.
Calafiore continues to supply good art. He excelled at the dark, moody, rainy scenes. I will look forward to whatever he project he moves on to.
Beechen surprised me with this series. Before Batgirl, I was not impressed with his writing. This series was very well written. Beechen really captured Batgirl’s personality. I will be curious to see if his next project is this good.
Recommended.
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The problem with Batgirl as a miniseries is that almost completely ignores all of her previous characterization.
For example, take the scene where David Cain takes her to a job when she was five. There are Cassandra Cain fans who are up in arms about that scene, because it’s an important part of her backstory that Batgirl didn’t know what she was being trained to do until she got her first assignment, and that part of her reason for becoming a hero was realizing on her first assignment that she didn’t want to kill people.
There are multiple other examples like this: her ability to read body language has been changed so much that she can’t tell somebody is lying to her, and her linguistic difficulties have been completely glossed.
Basically, Beechen didn’t do any research into the previous characterization or backstory of Batgirl. If this was a story about a completely new character, it would be OK (although there’s still atrocious scenes like the info dump in issue 1.) But it’s not a good Cassandra Cain story.