I mean yeah Penguins son is probably evil but... still.

The Good- the art suits the tone of this comic- Hope's pacing (wish that she did more comics)- super girl / bat girl teamup- love the Burnside outfit (I know a lot of people hate)- Babs' clothes (good window into mid 2010s yuppy / hipster style)The Meh- Penguin's kid is a bit boring- you can easily tell what scenes were out of Hope's hands and probably came from editorial. No issue with the message but that they just come off as contrived - Babs's supporting cast lacks charismaenjoyable, but giv...

I loved this, way better than the first volume.I like the characters, her relationship with Nightwing and her friendship with Frankie and Alysia. I’m enjoying the lightheartedness that I find in a lot of the Batgirk universe comics.Chris Wildgoose’s art is great!

What happened to Batgirl?

Augh. This is what happens when you mix agendas with comics. Youre so eager to prove your point that the story suffers. For example, Supergirl calls herself an illegal alien. The writer doesn't understand how pregnancy works. Batgirls friend takes out a thug with a stupid "No means no." quip. It drags the story down. Get past all that and the story is boring and generic. Oh gosh a villain's child is going to turn out evil. And he has daddy issues. And Batgirl starts dating him. And he takes over...

Batgirl is, to my knowledge, the only superhero librarian. Almost nobody does that good a job writing about work and careers and this is especially true of comics. Also, as a librarian, very few people in the real world have a good grasp on what the job of a librarian actually entails. This just isn't something that's done well and there had been a narrative move to make Barbara Gordon more of a hacker/web developer/researcher in recent years and that make sense as it is probably easier to yada

5 🌟Nice to see Batgirl in Burnside again. Glad that she is going to school to be a librarian. Sad that her romance with Ethan didn't work out. Wonder what will happen now that Penguin has taken an interest in Ethan. Also glad to see Nightwing again.Can't wait to read Batgirl, vol. 3: Summer of Lies!!!

Another solid Batgirl volume. While I think this story might be more appealing than the previous one, especially because of its usage of the classic setting and characters (I’m looking at you Nightwing, always a pleasure to have your pretty face in the mix. Even if only for a little while) I found myself rather disenchanted by Ethan Cobblepot, what a bore. Still I was more than happy to see Babs interact with friends and family in and out of her Batgirl persona. Plus bonus points for the comment...

[Read as single issues]After galavanting around the world in her first arc, Barbara Gordon returns home to Burnside, only to find that a new company has moved in, and its CEO has an infamous father. Can Barbara deal with Ethan Cobblepot, while Batgirl gets to the bottom of his scheme to take down his father?This is a total tonal shift after the first arc of the series, finding some nice middle ground between the Babs Tarr/Cameron Stewart/Brendan Fletcher run on the book and the Gail Simone one.

I will forever be grateful to Hope Larson for righting this ship.

It wasn't super thrilling to read and the penguin isn't a favorite villain of mine, but I'm giving it 4 stars because of the attempt at the commentary about gentrification. Also, babs is getting a degree in library sciences now which is A+.

Batgirl returns to Burnside to find it's been taken over by the tech boom. Barbara decides to go back to school for library science as an ode to the original version of Batgirl even though Computer Science makes more sense for this iteration of the character. There's a nice balance of action and Barbara hanging with her friends. Ethan Cobblepot isn't very well fleshed out and his whole deal is kind of hokey, especially the end (view spoiler)[where he uses his control of social media to take over...

A continuation of Barbara's adventures in 'Beyond Burnside', now taking place entirely in Burnside. Looks like it's back to basics.Hope Larson really has a breezy writing style, and her characters and stories are eccentric yet human enough to get you invested in what is going on with them, even if the content is fairly predictable and not as dark or deep as you'd expect from a comic involving a member of the Bat family. It's just plain fun. I love the change in artists, too - this volume is a va...

This is continuing from her last adventures in Japan and after the start of her new company and seeing how it affected Burnside in a negative manner. She cares a lot for her community and she decides to switch her major to library science! I'm really glad they decided to do this and the transition they took I thought was smooth and provided good character development for her. I really still love this new bat girl of Burnside version of bat girl, they show her doing problem solving and her balanc...

ugh reprints an issue that was in the last Supergirl I read. Hate when they reprint stuff in different trades.

I like it. World: The art is good. As much as I loved Albuquerque I always felt that he was not the right artist for Burnside Babs. This is the art that I want, light, fun and full of character. The world building is good, it's topical to our gentrification culture now and it's over the top enough to know it's not taking itself too seriously. The tone of the world is perfect. I like the friends and people surrounding Babs and I still think Frankie should be the new Oracle....but that's just me.

In the end there are too many social and eduction agendas going on here with some not really having any impact on the story. Between coding, economics, information freedom, gender, parent rights, uber, and so many other issues that get brought up...a little less that and more punching would actually make this a little tighter volume. This is especially true since you got me in the door with the title, because Penguin has a son?

One of the best Batgirl comics I’ve read!! 🙌🏼💙🖤 #BabsIsBae

I have read other Batgirl comics but honnestly... this one kinda disappointed me. I didn't find the story interesting at all. I felt like the action was too static, I don't know if it's because of the drawings or the boring story. The fights are really short. I thought this book was going to be more about the penguin himself but it wasn't. I wanted to see Batgirl fight the penguin.

I love this new version.She is intelligent, a feminist, an activist, her updated suit is hella cool. There is so much diversity in this series! All I can say is: Let more women write comic books!!