Batgirl #14: Terror in the Third Dimension-DC Comics-$2.99
2.5 out of 5 stars
Stephanie Brown a.k.a. Batgirl is playing Scrabble with her mom and being bored out of her mind, when the doorbell rings. It’s her friend, Kara a.k.a Supergirl, and she wants to hang out. Stephanie goes with Kara to hang out. They go to Stephanie’s school, Gotham University. A man runs into them knocking his important research papers all over the place. He picks them up and keeps running. Stephanie and Kara decide to see a vampire 3-D flick.
The research man who doesn’t look where he’s going when he runs is named Newton. He needed to show his research results because they are taking away his funding and kicking him out of the lab. He decides to show everyone the results of his project.
While the girls are at the movie, the film becomes a little too 3-D, when Dracula comes flying out of the screen. Stephanie and Kara decide to stop him. Somehow he gets trapped in green slimy stuff. Newton shows up. Dracula came out of the film because of him. His project was an invention that took images made by light and turned them into 3-D objects. The only way to stop Dracula is with a control rod through the chest. Since there are 24 frames per second in a film, there are 24 Draculas running around. They take out Draculas at some weird locations, like on top of a ferris wheel and inside an ice cream shop. The 24th was a little hard to catch and kill, but of course they managed. Stephanie and Kara end their night of hanging out with an unseen pillow fight at Stephanie’s house and by promising to help each other whenever they’re in too much trouble. Kara leaves and Stephanie tells her mom that she had the best time hanging out with her friend.
Writer (Bryan Q. Miller): The storyline is kind of interesting. Batgirl’s just an average college student who plays board games with her mom by day, and by night she’s fights crime sometimes with friends, like Supergirl. What a life! But the movie coming to life has been done before. Anyone ever see a little movie called The Ring before. (If you read this comic, you’ll day in seven days-Ha ha ha). Also, why do Batgirl and Supergirl have to be stereotypical girls, who have pillow fights, say things, like “BFFs”, and make pinky swears. There only college age kids for goodness sake. Also, how original is it to name the science guy, Newton? It’s only a little better than calling him Einstein. Also, killing these film Draculas with basically what are stakes through the heart. That has never been done before, right?
Illustrator (Lee Garbett): My personal favorite illustrations in this comic are all the different places Batgirl and Supergirl have to kill Draculas, especially the ice cream shop and the photo booth.
Cover Artist (Stanley “Artgerm” Lau): The girls are back to back surrounded by black and white Draculas (it was an old film they were watching) and they look completely ready for the fight.
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