Anyone pick up the oracle code today?
Books I’m pulling: Justice League Dark, Batman and the, Outsiders, Suicide squad, Daredevil, Tynion’s Batman, X-men, X-force, Marauders, Hellions, X-Factor, Three Jokers, Deceased Dead Planet
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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Hmm, My shop didn’t have it. I’m gonna have to track one down.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
I didn’t really like it overall. It felt like it could have been a book starring any random character, and it likely could have worked the same. The art was nice, at least.
Books I’m pulling: Justice League Dark, Batman and the, Outsiders, Suicide squad, Daredevil, Tynion’s Batman, X-men, X-force, Marauders, Hellions, X-Factor, Three Jokers, Deceased Dead Planet
«It's like kids trying to write stories for adults or something.»
There is an huge difference among write a good story and try to write a great one.
«Heroism is not about being perfect or always winning, but breathing hope into the hopeless.»
Batman's world isn't realistic. It's grounded in psychological realism… In real life, Batman's crusade would be a horrible idea.[…] But in the world Batman inhabits, it not only makes sense, it's absolutely the right thing to do.
Just read The Oracle Code, and I'm impressed.
First, you have to realise that this is a different Babs. She has never been Batgirl. She never went to college. This is a Babs less than half the age, and with a world less experience, than the one we saw in "Oracle: Year One—Born of Hope". But this Babs carries just as much determination, anger, grief, and conflicted emotions as she does in that story. I don't have my own experience of trauma recovery or disability, but the way Babs's mental trauma informs the way she sees her own body, and the way people far too often are socialised to treat disabled people, feels very powerful and true. I imagine more people than just kids with disabilities can relate to the way Jim Gordon wants what is best for his daughter, but is unable to understand her in her new body, and the way it drives the two of them apart.
The Arkham Center for Independence is basically Arkham Asylum, but with children and scarier than most mainline writers manages. In a way, it echoes the way too much of the environment for disabled people works in reality, where places that should be accessible often aren't. It is a space for abled bodies, modified in the least possible way.
Art is great. This is probably the most colourful album of the Ink series so far in order of number of colours used, but still it conforms to the "house style", since only a few colours are used on each page. The colours also highlights Babs's social and emotional isolation, and as she gains friends and confidence in her new body more parts of the pages gains colour.
The mystery element of the story is probably the weakest part. Especially the way the puzzle pieces from stories connect with the actual problems that Babs solves feel rather tacked on.
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«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])
After 2 canceled orders I finally got my Oracle Code. It’s was ok, I don’t know. I still like the whole when it comes to Oracle if you know what I mean. I also think her already being a hacker kind of skips part of the journey. Other then that it wasn’t bad. It was an interesting new perspective and the art was cool. Though shame no glasses.
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