Bullet Review:After a brilliant run, where each volume was as solid, as good, as cohesive as the last or better, we end Gail Simone's fantastic stint on this messy turd.More Full Review:The volume starts out with the hella weird issue Gothtopia, wherein Gotham is now a brilliant city of light (?), Joker runs an ice cream factory (?) and a now-white uniformed Batgirl's biggest problem is helping little old ladies across the street. That issue pretty much sets the stage for the rest of the uneven,...

This really didn't work for me. And that's rare for me to say about a Gail Simone book. This is the finale for Gail's run of New 52 Batgirl and while I'm sorry to see it go, this was a really lackluster finish. There was no discernible arc in this book. It was a collection of one shots with a final showdown between Babs and Knightfall. It seemed as if Gail wasn't sure she'd get the time to flesh out a new Big Bad and that sucks because I like the way she writes villains. I enjoyed Mother Mercy a...

I didn't connect with this one as much as the others. This is basically a bunch of one shots put together. There's some connections here and there but for the most part all broken into their own stories. That can be good though! Except when most feel little filler like or not that interesting. A story involving a happy version of gotham, ivy, vampires, and big black creatures that look like venom. None of them seem to click with me 100% and so I kind of drifted away from it. What I liked: There'...

This was a very odd volume. I know there was an increasing number of metahuman characters in this New 52 Batgirl series, but it seems that every villain in this volume has a super(natural) power of some sort. It makes me want her to have an archnemesis who spouts riddles rather than acid from their hands. The issue I actually liked was the one that focused on Poison Ivy, and even there, it felt like I was missing something from the Birds of Prey series, which I intend on reading. That bit actual...

I should probably dock a few more points for the Gothtopia story, which doesn't really make sense out of context. DC, this would have been a great time for a few paragraphs to summarize this Gotham-based event. I know I'm not the only person who reads Batgirl but not Detective Comics. I could also dock a few points for the weird boogeyman story, which is both kind of pointless and kind of not very good. However, that doesn't keep the equally strange but much better vampire story from being much

What a strange, strange little book.After what I considered to be the stunning volume 4, this volume was kind of a mess. Gail Simone is a great writer and has quickly become one of my favorite writers, and she wrote a very clear story that built to an excellent climax in volume 4 and developed Barbara's character along a clear arc. And while this volume isn't necessarily bad, it doesn't gel as a unit, nor does it fit in very well with the rest of Simone's run on Batgirl. It might be more accurat...

(B) 73% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: Intertextuality gone mad: it’s a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up book, bereft of context and cheap with insouciance.

I really like Batgirl. She's my second favorite from the Bat Fam (after Batman, of course.) Some things from this volume were not so great though. In the end Knightfall is felled by a ... photo of her family? That whole part of the story was super rushed. I'm still trying to figure out where Huntress came from and how Batgirl managed to get all of the heroes (and some villains) to come out of the woodwork for her. I love Huntress but her appearance is super weird. "Oh hey, I was in the neighborh...

There's some villain-of-the-month action for a number of chapters/issues, then Knightfall has a plot hatch and Batgirl unleashes some girl-power consequences. Life-changing, if the authors remember to make Barbara keep her promises. Tacked onto the tail is a Future's End five-years-fast-forward story, that I found to be utter fantasy and totally unbelievable (and that also mindlessly broke Barbara's commitment to work for Obscura). Ah, well. I believe the collections renumber back to Volume 1 af...

This incoherent mess was annoying on almost every level. 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? bah.And then she has this mission that she can't accomplish by herself. So she scrambles to find people....

Oh, Gail Simone, where will you take us next. Thank you for this darn fine run on Batgirl in which you gave us an interesting and diverse supporting cast and a tough as nails protagonist. I think the elements (read: DC Editorial Staff) were likely against you. But you persevered.Loose ends tied up tight, introduction of new supernatural elements, and passing of the baton complete. Could have been a bit more of an event, but, decidedly it wasn't.3.5/5

This was not my favourite volume of Batgirl. I still think the series is very good and I really cannot understand why they would want to change direction with everything that they have built up so far. The reason I could not give this 5 stars is because there are a lot of little faults that were bugging me that just added up, to a star being dropped.The first 3 stories were very disjointed in fact they might have been standalone stories or tie-ins, which is usually ok but for closing the final v...

It's over...thank you. World: Art is same since the start of the series. Meh. The world building is okay, it's a culmination of what Simone started in issue one. From the characters to the little slice of Cherry Hill that she's created for Babs this was a solid consistent end for the world. Story: Meh. Knightfall story was a poor man's Punisher story and was what it was. The stuff with the boyfriend and the family and the roommate was also rather forgettable. I like Simone's writing normally but...

3.5Again this one was sort of meh. I feel that by the last two volumes, the storyline was kind of thrown out of the window. It jumped around too much for me. I still adore the first three volumes though.

It kills me to give this a two but man...There is a bit of good- The art for one, and the Knightfall plot resolution. The rest though... I suppose Birds of Prey ties in with a lot of this. And then, the whole thing with dick being dead... no explanation or anything, rather with like Damien's. The first story was good in its way, but then reality breaks through and there is no explanation for what happened to make things how they were... And the futures end story was alright, but poorly illustrat...

Hands down, coolest story ever - minus the epilogue work. That kind of build-up was perfection, though I wish Simone had the free-reign to go on and on and tell a more fleshed out version. I can't get enough of Barbara Gordon. I wish we could have more Gail Simone Batgirl, because that anime looking follow-up don't cut it. I think a lot of people are put out that there's holes to the story, like where you need every DC title tie-in to see exactly what went down. I'm willing to grant the story's

Shallow Comics Sidekick Buddy Read!Yeah, yeah. Batgirl is nobody's sidekick. But at some point, Batman helped her out with some skillz, right? So. SheCountsAsASidekickIfISaySheCountsAsASidekick!While this is a solid addition to Batgirl, it wasn't my favorite. I hate to say it, but there's a bit of WhatTheFuckery going on in this volume. Mainly, in the first and last issue.Warning: Spoiler Alert!The first issue is some sort of a (maybe?) dream sequence, that has Barbara, a random woman, and (perh...

What a confusing mess of a finale this was. I've generally enjoyed the parts of this series that Gail Simone has felt in control of, but all the random sidetracks and crossovers over the course of the series frequently derailed it. Then we get to this, the Simone's final volume on the character, and all of those problems compound like crazy.To begin with, this collection starts with a story in which Batgirl is living in some kind of utopian futuristic Gotham, where everything is all joy and smil...

3.5 stars, I think.I enjoyed the Silver mini-arc. Brought a lot of fun. I texted a couple of my friends the panel where the cop says his brother moved to Detroit. For the quiet.The Annual was an excellent one-shot, great little cameo from Ivy.Marguerite Bennett also wrote a nice little one-shot. I wasn't sure if I was "feeling it," i.e., more than mediocre, but the last page? Way to sell it.Ragdoll was fun as usual. He better be in the upcoming Secret Six. I'mma make with the punches if he's not...