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Fernando Pasarin, | 256 pages | 30 Dec 2014 | DC Comics | 9781401250416 | English | United States Batgirl 5: Deadline Review |BasementRejects

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. There were like five unrelated stories tacked together. And I kept seeing something like "three months ago". But I never saw anything like "present". So apparently we kept going back in time, by three month blocks. Yet the story arc itself kept moving forward. So what the bloody hell was up with that "three months ago" every other page? And Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 she has this mission that she can't accomplish by herself. So she scrambles to find people. The story before that? Or maybe to stories ago. There's this mute super killer who hangs out with her. Tagging along on missions. Nor was she around when she realized she couldn't do the mission by herself and needed help. Then for no apparent reason, and 's daughter showed up to offer her help. The first Batgirl did upon being offered this help was to savagely beat the woman who offered to help her. Batgirl was an emotional mess who beat everyone around her, was a nasty bitch to everyone who tried to help her Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 and and had a massive chip on her shoulder. I'm surprised anyone would want anything to do with her. And then the last story was set in the future. And Batgirl has bulked up to the size of the Incredible Hulk and goes by the name "Beast". It as quite. The whole bloody mess was incoherent, tedious, and boring. Home Groups Talk More Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5. I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms. Members Reviews Popularity Average rating Mentions 67 22. It's a hazardous reunion between Batgirl and the former Court of Owls assassin Strix as they face off against the lethal new threat known as Silver--the man who knows the secret of 's conspiracy of bats! No current Talk conversations about this book. This incoherent mess was annoying on almost every level. Lexxi Jan 26, You must Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 in to edit Common Knowledge data. Batgirl Volume 5: Deadline. Alysia Yeoh. . Barbara Gordon, Sr. Commissioner . Batgirl: Barbara Gordon. Charise Carnes. Harvey Bullock. Andrew Bennett. Midnight Man. Poison Ivy. : Dinah Lance. Ezekiel Rain. Ricky Gutierrez. Huntress: Helena Bertinelli. Bleak Michael. Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 Gordon, Jr. References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English 1 Gail Simone. No library descriptions found. Book description. Haiku summary. Add to Your books. Add to wishlist. Quick Links Amazon. Amazon Kindle 0 Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5. Audible 0 editions. CD Audiobook 0 editions. Project Gutenberg 0 editions. Google Books — Loading Local Book Search. Swap 6 want. Popular covers See all Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 covers. Rating Average: 2. Is this you? Become a LibraryThing Author. Recently added by. For more help Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 the Common Knowledge help page. Original publication date. Uchida Miss. Gail Simone. Add to Your books Add to wishlist Quick Links. Batgirl Vol. 5: Deadline () by Gail Simone: | : Books

After battling vampires and monsters under the floor, Batgirl finds herself in a greater battle to save her section of Gotham. Knightfall has a plan. Batgirl must call upon her friends and allies if she hopes to stop Knightfall…but will it be enough? Batgirl has been put through the ringer over the years. She was shot by the , paralyzed, became Oracle, regained her ability to walk facing controversy Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 that moveand then made publishing news by the firing and rehiring of Gail Simone. I have never really been a big Gail Simone fan. This is followed by a future look at Batgirl which is also pretty miserable. Batgirl is deserving of a series and is good for DC and the superhero world. Simone tried to balance this and did it sometimes more successfully than other times. Click here to cancel reply. Batgirl 3 Loves all things pop-culture especially if it has a bit of a counter-culture twist. Plays video games basically from the start when a neighbor brought home an Ataricomic loving for almost 30 yearsand a true critic of movies. Enjoys the art house but also isn't afraid to let in one or two popular movies at the same time. Leave A Response Click here to cancel reply. Name required Email required Website. Latest Reviews All. Hollow Man Movies October 21, - 0 comments 7. Hollow Man 2 Movies October 21, - 0 comments 4. Tourist Trap Movies October 20, - 0 comments 5. The Breed Movies October 19, - 0 comments 2. More Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 Criterion August September 1, - 0 comments. Animal Crossing Villagers Are the Worst! May 14, - 0 comments. The 92nd Academy Award Nominations January 16, - 0 comments. November 2, - Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 comments. Latest Media. Sorry, no Tweets were found. Links Real Scene TV. All rights reserved. Infolinks Web Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 by Derrick Bailey. Batgirl Volume 5: Deadline by Gail Simone | LibraryThing

Post a comment. Things haven't been going well for the heroine Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 as Barbara Gordon. She's seemingly responsible for the death of her brother and her father nearly killed her boyfriend. To Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 matters worse, her Knightfall is nearing her endgame to make Gotham City her own. Thankfully, Batgirl has a few friends to help her bring down Knightfall's criminal empire. Deadline collects the Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 of Gail Simone's stellar three year run on Batgirl. The stories collected here feature Batgirl and her allies facing off against Knightfall and the Disgraced, as well as some rather creepy supernatural foes. Simone pulls out all the stops, giving her longtime readers the kind of moments that made her run on so successful. After seeing a more dour Barbara in the preceding trade, it's nice to see her trading quips with Black Canary in between kicking bad guy butt. Simone Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 tosses Huntress into the mix, which definitely stirs up some major nostalgia. If that weren't enough, we also see the re-introduction of Secret Six fan-favourite Ragdoll in a one-off issue facing off against Batgirl. For the first few issues of this collection, Simone dabbles in the horror genre to deliver some of her most chilling work to date. In a two-part story, Batgirl teams up with the former assassin Strix Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 battle the vampire hunter Silver. He's kidnapped a little girl he believes to be the queen of the vampires and Strix is deadset on rescuing her from his clutches. The dynamic between Batgirl and Strix is electric, with the former playing a figurative big sis. In a way, it also mimics the chemistry between fan-favourites Spoiler and Black Bat. Despite being filler, this two-parter is very effective in keeping the reader engaged and even features a surprise twist worthy of any good horror movie. Another standalone story features Batgirl saving a group of teenagers after they've summoned a shapeshifting beast to Gotham City. By and large, the story's purpose is to reinvigorate Batgirl's resolve as a hero and to become more confident in her abilities. Simone does this not only through the action of the story, but by using Batgirl's internal dialogue to explore her Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 within the Bat Family. It's a successful way of emphasizing the fact that Batgirl Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 never just some sidekick like , but rather she was a hero in her own right whose independence helped to usher in a new wave of superheroines all the way back in the late s. The horror trend continues with the issue that guest stars Ragdoll. As one of the standouts from Gail Simone's run on Secret SixRagdoll is equally as funny as he is creepy. The imagery within the issue is enough to Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 a shiver Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 your spine, particularly one panel which features Alysia trapped in a bathroom stall with him. Of course, the dialogue that accompanies the art cuts through the horror to provide a more layered reading experience. Of all of the stories in Deadlinethe one from Batgirl Annual 2 is perhaps the best of the bunch. Taking place over the course of several months, this story features Batgirl forming an uneasy alliance with Poison Ivy as they investigate the shady business dealings of the man known as Mr. Despite carrying her name, the annual actually has very little to do with Batgirl. Instead, it serves as a fascinating character story about Poison Ivy. By and large, writers have a Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 to portray the redheaded villainess as a one-note eco-terrorist who uses sex as a weapon. That's not the case here. Simone provides a truly riveting story that explores Poison Ivy's complex motivations and her internal battle with her own humanity. She does this using the framework of the changing seasons, as well as placing the character in situations where she witnesses human suffering. It's nothing short of brilliant. The conclusion of Simone's run on Batgirl is a bittersweet reading experience. In the three part story "Deadline," she reunites Batgirl with Black Canary and Huntress for an unforgettable showdown against Knightfall and her Disgraced. It's a page-turner, with some of the most eye-popping action thus far in the series and it even features some rather cool guest stars. It works beautifully to re-establish Batgirl as a champion of the light, dusting away some of the melancholy that set in after some of the terrible things she's experienced. Not only Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5, but it sees Batgirl using her head to strategize and has her defeating Knightfall, not through fisticuffs, but through outwitting her. What makes this conclusion so bittersweet is two-fold. The first being that the story itself should have been much longer than it was. With it taking place over the course of three issues, which were largely preceded by filler, doesn't give Simone the legroom she needed to really set everything up the way it needed to be. It's especially unnerving considering she lost one issue to a tie-in 27which otherwise could have gone towards something more important. The other part of it is that Simone truly hits her stride here. The reunion of the most famous members of the Birds of Prey featured is maddeningly frustrating. We get them Batgirl: Deadline Volume 5 together for all of two issues before Simone bids farewell to these characters for now at least. While she couldn't quite possibly write the same characters forever, it's still disappointing that her run couldn't have gone on longer. It's really no secret that Gail Simone is one of my favourite comic book writers. Her tenure on Birds of Prey continues to be one of my all-time favourite runs by any one writer, while her subsequent work has been equally as impressive. Batgirl comes closest perhaps at rivalling Birds of Prey. Her three years on this book were thrilling, dramatic and elicited just about every emotion imaginable from readers. It's sad to think about the fact that there won't be any further stories featuring this specific cast under Simone's direction for the foreseeable future, but the stories she's left behind are impactful and stand as some of the greatest if not the greatest that the New 52 had to offer. No comments:. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments .