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Batgirl Year One Scott Beatty Chuck Dixon Books

I thought I was buying this comic for the fabulous combined art of Macos Martin and Alvaro Lopez- I was suspicious Batgirl's story would be ham-fisted at best- but I was happily mistaken! Writers Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon outdo themselves in the best Batgirl story ever told. The script is intelligent, clever, and compelling with some great foreshadowing. (Blatant perhaps, for those familiar with Barbara Gordon's history, but tasteful and in character.) Of course I was thrilled and awed by the the art too. Every panel is a story all it's own, a fine specimen of illustration narrative. This is a rare glimpse at a comic not dominated with bulging muscles and right hooks. But don't mistake me, this comic has some of the best dynamic fight scenes! I'm very impressed by what Batgirl: Year One offers to the die-hard and the comic-curious alike.

I would also like to pay a special compliment to letterer Willie Schubert for an under-appreciated job well done.


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Batgirl Year One Scott Beatty Chuck Dixon Books Reviews

The original Batgirl was Barbara Gordon and this book like other Year One books is an origin story, revising and expanding her silver age origin to a more modern setting.

Barbara Gordon wants to be a police detective but is too short and her father James Gordon is just not a fan of her joining the force. She decides to give him a few awkward moments at a party by designing her own creative female version of the Batman costume. But she actually has to fight crime when Killer Moth shows up to kidnap Bruce Wayne.

When she decides she wants to actually continue being Batgirl. This is a problem as her father would never want her to be Batgirl and Batman's not too hot on the idea, with the feeling that she hasn't earned the right to wear her costume. Batman has Robin provide her some equipment to help but mainly to make sure she doesn't kill herself.

Really, this is just a fun book. Batgirl is spunky and determined. She goes through plenty of setbacks but is a determined fighter who won't let anyone deny her her dream. She has her moments of self-doubt but they're moments, it's not a way of life for her. She keeps coming, even though her motivation for this isn't particularly strong other than being in a cop's family and unable to use her skills on the police force where she works as a computer tech.

This type of story doesn't need a menacing big league villain like the Joker or the Penguin. A strong but not all that competent Killer Moth backed up by the more menacing but still B-list villain Firefly really help to strike the right tone with Killer Moth's plot to become the villains version of Batman even giving criminals a Moth signal which was part of a Silver Age Batman story.

This series really did quite a few homages and acknowledgements to the Silver and Bronze where Barbara Gordon's Batgirl was well-known and it all makes for a nice package.

If there's one detriment, it was the constant foreshadowing. In the post-Crisis DC Universe, Barbara Gordon was crippled by the Joker in Alan Moore's Batman The Killing Joke and from her wheelchair, she served as Oracle who masterminded the Birds of Prey group. One or two references to this would have been okay and expected but they did it a lot and that diminished the story.

It's as if the authors are saying, "You know everyone whose afraid our plucky heroine is going to get herself seriously injured. Well, they're right." It's a dark cloud that they make way too big in this type of story.

Still, they don't ruin it and compared to the other Year One Titles I've read, this is actually pretty good.
First, I really liked the art style in this series. It was very bright, vibrant and somewhat reminiscent of the look we've seen in the various comics inspired by Batman The Animated Series - you know, all those comics with the tag"adventures" at the end. This is not to say that everyone looked like simple cartoon characters or anything like that, but it was a distinct style that played up the fact that it was a comic book depiction and not a supreme effort to push the realism aspect to things.

The comic followed the largely introspective dialog style that I've seen in a lot of depictions of Batgirl. What I mean by this how she seems to have a lot of internal dialog on-going during all the action and whatnot as depicted by little journal excerpts (complete with a pseudo hand-written font) showing us what she's thinking during any particular scene in the comic. You could worry that it might get a little wordy or even somewhat cerebral, but I think it added a nice balance to things. Many of the "Bat Family" don't engage in a whole lot of banter these days, so it helps to add flavor to the largely silent action panels with all this narration.

The overall story was very nicely done, I felt. They made sure to give Batgirl a good reason for her decision to become a superhero and the tied the character's story to various gender-related issues which remain very relevant. They made her more than just a Batman fangirl and instead presented her as someone with very strong sense of justice and an honest desire to help make the world better.

The Batman angle was both intriguing and also inevitable given her chosen identity. And the back and forth between Batman and Gordon as the two discuss the role of the Batgirl and Gordon's unspoken suspicions that she's really his daughter. Even the whole process of indirectly training her and using Robin as a way to reach out to her certainly made for an interesting narrative framework.

I also liked how the story kind of gave some general sense of dignity for he often ridiculed villain Killer Moth. And while I don't necessarily think this book makes him some serious badass villain. It could have been pretty simple to just reimagine his character entirely in order to make him less comical but instead this story honored his original concept and made it work for the nature of this story. I won't say too much beyond that - Killer Moth's own little journey also helps a lot with how the story plays out.

Batgirl Year One was a lot more enjoyable than I had expected - shows what I know for not trying to read up on the character sooner. It's a great book for all Batgirl fans and even all Bat Family fans and it does a lot to flesh out just why she's so awesome.
A great story. The feminist undertones were a bit overdone at times but Batgirl is always a fun character/
This is a fantastic take on an inconic character who doesn't always get her fair due. Barbara Gordon was fleshed out much more in her role as Oracle, with her time as Batgirl being a bit more superfluous. This however fleshes out the character's origin in an exciting way that adds great depth to the character.

Knowing what was to happen later in her life there are many slight nods to future events, but these winks to the reader are a little treat and not some kind of cheap gimmick. The story is solid and it helps solidy Gordon's Batgirl as the rolemodel she should be.
I thought I was buying this comic for the fabulous combined art of Macos Martin and Alvaro Lopez- I was suspicious Batgirl's story would be ham-fisted at best- but I was happily mistaken! Writers Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon outdo themselves in the best Batgirl story ever told. The script is intelligent, clever, and compelling with some great foreshadowing. (Blatant perhaps, for those familiar with Barbara Gordon's history, but tasteful and in character.) Of course I was thrilled and awed by the the art too. Every panel is a story all it's own, a fine specimen of illustration narrative. This is a rare glimpse at a comic not dominated with bulging muscles and right hooks. But don't mistake me, this comic has some of the best dynamic fight scenes! I'm very impressed by what Batgirl Year One offers to the die-hard and the comic-curious alike.

I would also like to pay a special compliment to letterer Willie Schubert for an under-appreciated job well done.