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Batgirl Vol. 3: Point Blank by Kelley Puckett

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This book collects Issues 26-37 of Cassandra Cain's Batgirl series.

Issue 26 has her worn out by her battle with Lady Shiva and someone needs to go back to the temple of Shiva. It's a Spoiler story with her imaging Batgirl with her. It's an okay story.

Issue 27 is a story that ties into Bruce Wayne being wanted for murder. Batman tries to get her to beg off, but she looks into it on her own with a method that no one else would use.

Issue 28 saw Spoiler wanting to train with Cassandra and a guy's coming after Cassandra with robots because.

Issue 29 is another crossover with the Bruce Wayne storyline. This one a particularly dull issue that has the great fighter Batgirl serving as a stand-in for the victim in Nightwing's crime scene re-enactment.

Issues 30-32 is written by Chuck Dixon and has her team up with Conor Hawke to hunt down a killer who uses an arrow. This story isn't bad, but when you throw in a visit from Robin and Spoiler, Batgirl practically becomes a side character in her own book.

Issue 33 has her confronting Cain in the aftermath of Bruce Wayne, Fugitive as she delivers an ultimatum.

Issue 34 has her team up with Batman to catch a child killer and she comes to a realization about her own career.

Issues 35 and 36 begin with her searching for a man named Alpha and finding an amnesiac, who she teams up to stop a nuclear bomb from going off in Gotham. It's interesting to see how she plays it as she becomes aware of the man's identity.

In Issue 37, she's hunting down a criminal who has kidnapped her daughter from a mother who only appreciates her daughter's talent. It's an interesting tale that suggests her own Daddy issues play into her judgment.

Overall, the book has some problems, with Batgirl often being drawn into events that have little to do with her. Still, she got to acquit herself fairly well in two of the three Bruce Wayne crossovers. The book has many solid character moments worked in. The art is very expressive and stylistic to show the fluidity of our heroine's fighting as well as to convey the emotions of a character who still isn't very talky.

Even though, it's not quite as good as previous volumes, this one is still worth a read.



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