COMIC BINGE: Batgirl, Vol. 1 & Dark Reign: Deadpool/Thunderbolts
Cameron Stewart, what have you done?! This week’s first review comes to you courtesy of bad decision making at DC Comics. For awhile now, the New 52 Batgirl title has been written by Gail Simone, who certainly has experience when it comes to female characters. When Batgirl really hit its stride, it easily became one of the better comics out of the New 52. Now, with The Batgirl of Burnside we have a new Batgirl than the one we were introduced to years ago now, and came to know. What I liked best about Simone’s Batgirl is that she evolved during the time of the comic book, and in the absence of Batwoman really shined as a great female lead character title. However, with this new rebooted volume in the same line of Batgirl comics, we have the same cheesy crap we should come to expect from any teen-girl-as-a-hero title. Batgirl had become so much more than a bland bubblegum comic, and since Death of the Family was rivaling some of the greatest stories in the New 52 universe. The manhunt between Barbara Gordon as Batgirl, and her father Jim Gordon were incredible. If you haven’t read the New 52 series, you should get one that. But anyways about this new reboot book, it just sucked. Barbara Gordon was suddenly an irritating human being, that was more concerned with how many likes she had on her Pixtagraph posts than where her story was going. I don’t think I’ve seen much worse of a collapse on a title transferring writers between volumes. This book was extremely disappointing, and I would highly recommend setting your sights on the first five volumes of this series.
RATED : ( PG-13 )
STORY : ( 4 / 10 )
ARTWORK : ( 5 / 10 )
COVERS : ( 5 / 10 )
AWESOME : ( 4 / 10 )
FINAL RATING : ( 4 / 10 )
Otherwise in the last week, I’ve really been trying to further my knowledge of Deadpool titles past. Since I’ve read Brian Posehn’s and plan to conclude that series here shortly, I went back one set and checked out Daniel Way’s series previous to the new one. So far it’s pretty good, and I like the writing of the different Deadpool “perspectives”. However, I wanted to share my thoughts on an insert volume that was a part of Marvel’s Dark Reign event. The title was a combo Deadpool/Thunderbolts which basically pit the two against one another in a story tied into the overall Dark Reign storyline. I’ve read some of the other books, but my bad memory doesn’t serve to piece together the story off the top of my head. Deadpool in this book though was a riot, as I thought thoroughly throughout that this was an exceptional Deadpool story. Bring in the Thunderbolts, who are pretty interesting themselves but unknown for the most part. This does not get by Deadpool, as he has fun tormenting his enemies. I think that this book can be read separately of the series in which it’s supposed to be contained, so I’d highly recommend this as a good Deadpool read. With the movie coming out soon, I’m sure there will be plenty more Deadpool to be read. But for now, I leave you with this recommendation. Check out Andy Diggle and Daniel Way’s Dark Reign: Deadpool/Thunderbolts.
RATED : ( PG-13 )
STORY : ( 8 / 10 )
ARTWORK : ( 8 / 10 )
COVERS : ( 8 / 10 )
AWESOME : ( 9 / 10 )
FINAL RATING : ( 9 / 10 )