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Oracle: The Cure by Kevin VanHook, Julián López, Claude St. Aubin, Fernando Pasarín, Tony Bedard, John Floyd
2.5

While I don't hate Oracle: The Cure the story didn't really do much for me. I've never been fond of The Calculator as a villain. I don't think he's very interesting and rarely produces exciting stories for Babs or the Birds of Prey and this story is no exception.

The plot of this book is mainly technobabble gobbledygook as Oracle surfs the web trying to stop the Calculator. If you're fond of early 2000s depiction of "the net" and MMORPGs this might be more fun for you but it did nothing for me. 

The Cure halfheartedly tries to be about Barbara's relationship with her disability and her Killing Joke trauma but never explores it in a novel or interesting way. Chuck Dixon was writing stories like this with Babs in the mid-90s so to see it rehashed in such an uninspired way was tedious. Not to mention the comic never sufficiently address why Barbara disbands the Birds of Prey at all.

Overall Oracle: The Cure was a nothing-burger story with nothing interesting to say. I don't hate it, but it was very meh.