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Batgirl, Vol. 1: Beyond Burnside by Hope Larson, Raphael Albuquerque, Deron Bennett, Dave McCaig
1.0

Wow I couldn't even finish this.

I guess it's my fault. I hadn't read ANY Batgirl since Gail stopped. So when I pick up this and in shock of how different (and worse it is) I guess I can only blame myself. So Batgirl is in Japan, a new fling, or old fling, is happening with a old lover. Then...yeah you guessed it, bad things happen. She's following some shady organzation of some sort? I dunno to be honest I was going in and out and Babs is so uninteresting in this little "cutesey cool" way I just hate it. Nothing like the multi-layered Batgirl Gail gave us with questioning herself and being confident when need be. This is just...horrible.

Good: I like the art at times?

Bad: The dialog is goofy and not interesting at all. The art suffers from terrible designs. Like the suits in this, especially Batgirls, is HORRIBLE. I also hated the pacing as it's a slog to get through with the chit chat not giving us ANYTHING interesting. Also the plotline is just terrible IMO.

Overall this is worth skipping in every regard. No Offense to Hope or the artist, I'm sure both are talented, but this is NOT Batgirl I enjoy at all. Even Birds of Prey was a MUCH better Batgirl featured in it.