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Batgirl Flashback: No Wire Hangers

November 13th, 2009 by | Tags: , ,


An oldie but a goodie. In honor of our Batgirl-centric fourcast and Esther’s latest Batgirl play-by-play, I wanted to post one of my favorite sequences from Batgirl: Death Wish.

A bit of context: one year ago, Batgirl lost the use of her pattern-recognition skills due to some ill-timed telepathic mental adjustment. To repair this flaw, she sought out and fought Lady Shiva. In exchange for fixing her, Shiva demanded one thing: a fight to the death one year in the future. Batgirl, when faced with a choice of being mediocre for a lifetime or the greatest for a year, took her challenge, was healed, and threw herself into her Bat-persona. She stopped crimes, ignored her social life, and rose to Olympian heights. And now, one year after her rebirth, she must face Lady Shiva and die.

Words by Kelley Puckett, art by Daimon Scott. Pages 7, 8, and 11 are my favorite. Great storytelling, choreo, and layout.

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7 comments to “Batgirl Flashback: No Wire Hangers”

  1. The days when DC’s big franchises weren’t whites-only preserves are much missed.

         by AlLoggins November 13th, 2009 at 14:39 --replyReply to this comment

  2. Damn that comic was good. Too bad DC ruins everything good.

         by Zory November 14th, 2009 at 14:50 --replyReply to this comment

  3. […] Wow, remember when Batgirl comics used to be awesome?: The gang at 4th Letter does. […]

         by Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Linkarama@Newsarama November 16th, 2009 at 04:34 --replyReply to this comment

  4. puckett & scott were an excellent team. if they’d been on something more high profile they’d both be stars. as it is, they’re off doing something better with their time than comics (I think and/or at least mostly); our loss. I did buy the raven mini scott did, but I haven’t read it yet

         by deco November 16th, 2009 at 10:01 --replyReply to this comment

  5. @AlLoggins:

    I like this, a few years back people were complaining about DC going diverse, now it’s a whites only preserve.

         by Howard November 16th, 2009 at 21:50 --replyReply to this comment

  6. @Howard: I wasn’t one of them.

    Your point?

         by AlLoggins November 17th, 2009 at 08:23 --replyReply to this comment

  7. Hmm, the repeat use of the Rising Sun motif seems strange, considering neither character is Japanese…

    Also: what do Thugees and the Yin/Yang (pg. 4) have in common? Not a lot!

         by LaterComments November 23rd, 2009 at 07:04 --replyReply to this comment