![]() ![]() * Villains include a blackmailer who mines social apps for dirt, cosplayers who take their anime way too seriously, and an artist so obsessed he wants to become Batgirl. ![]() ![]() Despite her hangover, she chases down a purse snatcher and vomits into a dumpster afterward. She uses her computer-like Batgirl brain to try to reconstruct the events of her drunk blackout. She can’t remember the boy she made out with. ![]() * We meet Barbara after a night of drinking. The entire volume feels like a failed marketing ploy, or worse, an insult. The viewpoint feels forced and fake, with none of the natural integration into everyday life that matches how people actually use social media. Unfortunately, Batgirl of Burnside fails on pretty much every level. She even takes down a villain with a QR code. Every page features someone tweeting, texting, or checking matches on the trendy dating app. By Cameron Stewart, Art by Babs Tarr (June 2015)īarbara Gordon is no stranger to dusting herself off when disaster strikes, so when a fire destroys everything she owns, she spots the opportunity for a new lease on life – and seizes it! Following the rest of Gotham City’s young adults to the hip border district of Burnside, Barbara sets about building an all-new Batgirl.īatgirl of Burnside is aimed squarely at the “social media generation,” and boy does it show. ![]()
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