Batman Chronicles #5 - Oracle, Year One

Aug. 10th, 2006 07:01 pm
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Requested by and ferreted out for [livejournal.com profile] neonchameleon.

This story is interesting, but it's kinda... iffy in places. Big, gaping places. For instance, the bad guy her father is tracking, and she tried to track, just happens to announce her full name just before shoving Babs into traffic? Babs is a bitch to Bruce... and initially it's understandable... but there's no mention of her ever making any sort of apology for making him feel even worse about her getting shot. Despite his continued help with a grant from WayneTech for her computers and hooking her up with the martial arts instructor. And wouldn't she already know how to use escrima from being Batgirl?

Meh. Anyway.

There's also an interesting bit on the nature of the Internet and how she decided to become the Oracle. About the difficult transition from athlete to wheelchair-bound. So, without further ado...

Expand( Oracle: Year One - Born of Hope )
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Elseworld's Finest - Supergirl & Batgirl

Aug. 9th, 2006 01:25 pm
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So it took me a few false starts to actually read this all the way through. The premise? Barbara Gordon is Batgirl, twice as ruthless and decked out with cool toys than Bruce as Batman ever was. Bruce in this story is Bruce Wayne, foppish billionaire and basically Barbara's sidekick. He stands around in a suit in the cave and talks about chasing women while Babs has all the fun. Kara is Supergirl, who came to Earth as a teenager and was taken under Diana's wing.

Where's Clark? A test tube in Luthor's lab. ::shudder::

Anyway...

Expand( Obligatory scan of Elseworlds Flash )

Check out the abs on Hawkwoman there. I wouldn't mess with her. At all. She's scary.

Expand( Luckily, Diana is still smokin' hot )

So Lex is dating Supergirl. And Lex has been kidnapped.

She goes to Gotham seeking him out, and despite the required initial animosity Batgirl has for Supergirl, they get close.



The idea is, with Barbara as Batgirl, that she developed Oracle as a monitoring and computer architecture throughout Gotham before ever putting a cape on, so she's got eyes and ears everywhere. And doesn't allow metas in Gotham, so making a quick exception for our fair blonde? Interesting.

They find the test tube of ClarkFetus(tm) and get all pissed, and go after Luthor.

Expand( One panel of teh creepy, and one of Batgirl expressing her feelings... )

Oh Barbara and her passion. She's always made an excellent creature of the night, and she was definitely the saving grace of a story that includes jacked-up Joker and more sexual innuendo than... well... DC Comics. ::laughs::

Oh, and, musn't forget to include silly foppy Bruce in this.

Expand( Silly foppy Bruce )

So, it's halfway decent. Has its moments and all. But really, Babs is the only reason to pay any attention to this book. Especially when running around in her underwear. Kara's kinda blah, and I would have liked to see more of the Dr. Midnite with boobs. Is it just me, or is Hawkwoman about to grab her and carry her away to have crazy rough lesbian sex in the woods?

Expand( Am I right? )

Elseworlds, how I love thee.

Especially with the gender-bending and all.

And in case you haven't had enough of just how hot Barbara is in this book...

In which putting on the Batsuit never looked so good.

P.S. All this has given me two big giant plot-bunnies of doom.
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