Woman Warrior Wednesdays #16 by Kate Krimson

Bruce Wayne: The Road Home-Batgirl –DC Comics - $2.99



Summary: Stephanie Brown aka Batgirl is defending Waynetech Research and Development from an intruder who shoots a “frickin’ laser beam” from his head (How often can you plug a Dr. Evil line). Barbara Gordon aka the Oracle, who gives Batgirl advice while she fights, thinks the bad guy may be Amazo, but for the meantime they decide to just call him, Casper, since he can make himself invisible like a ghost. Casper manages to get away.


Oracle thinks about calling in the Birds of Prey to take care of this and tells Batgirl to stay out of it for the time being. Of course, Batgirl is not the type that listens to any sort of advice. She does some investigating of her own while Proxy/Wendy Harris gives her the down low. While searching for clues, she gets surrounded by a gang of guys. She kicks their butts and then flees the scene. Via some more investigating, Batgirl finds out that Casper is Bruce Wayne, who is testing Batgirl’s skills. A Ms. Vicki Vale tells Oracle that knows who Batman is. After a heated discussion on the superhero gang, Vale walks away and Oracle takes out what looks like an iPhone and it says on the screen “Data clone complete.” Stephanie tells Bruce that she’s not giving up being Batgirl just because he’s back in the picture.


Bruce tells Alfred that both Stephanie and Wendy need looking after because they are both daughters of criminals. Alfred says Bruce didn’t need to test Stephanie to know that the Bat way of life is within her. Bruce says it was more like giving her the second chance that she deserved.


What I liked: Stephanie gets an A+ in Superhero 101 from Batman.


What I Hated: Not finding out who Ms. Vale is.


The Current Song in My Head – Well it’s more like three and there all from One-Eyed Doll’s album Break


“Murder Ballad”






“New Orleans”





“Redneck Love Song”

Woman Warrior Wednesdays #12 by Kate Krimson

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.