Originally Posted by
ohfellow
In Detective: That person seems to be deliberately unnamed. If I'm not mistaken, there's another unnamed person that Dick, Barbara and Kate are talking about at HQ - "Did you see her? ... She's a patient. I didn't see her." Well, Kate did see whoever is posing as Harley, so we don't know who is posing as Harley and we don't know who this other person is.
As I expected, the issue is all flashbacks, and we won't know who's bleeding in the elevator for months.
Now as for Batgirls #2, I wish Corona would just settle down. The action scenes are especially out of control. The first 6 or 7 pages are really hard to visually parse. So much of the rest is just ugly.
The story is bouncing around with too many plots, and the characters don't sound right.
In her phone conversation with Dick, Barbara does sound like a mom. And like someone who has been married a long time to Dick, not someone in an exciting fresh romance. Barbara's existence as a vibrant Batgirl has been destroyed. I mean, is anyone actually liking anything about how Barbara is portrayed? She just seems like a worried, nagging, bossy person, and limping around despite having been recently in costume in Nightwing. I guess look to "Nightwing" to find a more likable Barbara Gordon.
Doesn't it seem like there's been a surprising amount of talk about taking of showers, in both issues now? It just keeps coming up. It's odd - I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone talking about taking a shower in a comic. I guess that's just the device Cloonan and Conrad have been using to separate the characters when they're home.