A review by labunnywtf
Batgirl, Vol. 1: The Darkest Reflection by Gail Simone

5.0

All my life, I've had well-meaning guys hovering over me, protecting me when I didn't need or want it. Enough with the well-meaning guys. They want to keep an eye on me? I'll send their eyes back blackened.

I never read comics as a kid. Which is a shame. But my parents and older sister weren't into them. My father watched the Christopher Reeves Superman movies, and I loved (LOVED) Helen Slater as Supergirl, but that was the extent.

Then when I got older, and became friends with the best kinds of people, the nerds, there was too much history for me regarding comics. How do you delve into, what, 60 years of mythology? Where do you start?

Cod bless [b:The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy|22926684|The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy A Handbook for Girl Geeks|Sam Maggs|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1416432620s/22926684.jpg|42495858], and books like it, for showing me to look for "The New 52!". This wasn't one of the series' recommended, but my library had just gotten in the newest volume, so I requested them all in one fell swoop.

And I went in excited, because I'd heard fantastic things about Gail Simone. Nervous, because comics are not my genre, but excited.

And dear god, I was not disappointed. Barbara Gordon is the woman. I love her. LOVE HER. I have volume 2 in my hand, and am speeding through this review so I can jump back into the fray.

Trouble is now, though...I want her backstory. I want to read everything ever written about Batgirl, and my resources are limited, to say the least. I really need to learn how to jump into the comic book world with both feet, as opposed to dipping my toes in.

Also, does Commissioner Gordon know his daughter is Batgirl?! Will I find that out in the next few volumes?! He can't have, or he wouldn't have sent Detective Loose Cannon after her, right?

Damn my need for an origin story.