This is a biased review cause I just love the Stephanie Brown character, so if you want an objective review you won't find it here.Yes! Finally her own series, how does it read?! Great!World: The art in okay, it's nothing special to write home about, the character models are good, though body position is a little bit off, however the facial expressions are great which is very important for a Steph Brown book. The world building here is also good, following in the footstep of Cain Batgirl and als...

I read Batgirl at whim, It exceeded my expectations. I love Stephanie Brown and her sister-mentor relationship with Barbara. Sadly, the ending is a bit anticlimactic. I love the Batfam so much.

This is a pretty good first volume of the Stephanie Brown Batgirl character. Oracle/Barbara Gordon is a featured player, and there are some good scenes with Dick Grayson as Batman and with Damian Wayne as Robin.There's not a lot of exposition to let a reader know what's going on. There are references to Stephanie's past as Spoiler and Robin, as well as her romance with Tim Drake, but nothing explains what happened in her past to get her where she is in this book. Likewise, this story takes place...

I feel sorry for Stephanie. She was Robin for about five minutes before being murdered by Black Mask. Does she get a memorial? Nope. DC editorial says she was never "really" Robin. Then she comes back from the dead and gets to be Batgirl- for about five minutes. Then New 52 comes along and she gets replaced by a de-paralyzed Barbara Gordon. So where's Stephanie now? Don't know, DC editorial forbids any appearance or mention of her. I bring all this up because I really, really like Stephanie as B...

Didn't know much about Stephanie Brown before I started reading, and I'm honestly not sure if I really like her voice all that much...yet. However, this is worth reading anyway, because 50% of the book is Barbara Gordon's perspective on things as she reluctantly takes Stephanie under her wing. Overall, this was a really enjoyable origin story for a new Batgirl.

Sometimes there's nothing better than an afterthought selection from the library (and libraries rock, BTW) that turns out to be an unexpected and/or hidden gem. Batgirl Rising, for me at least, was one of those books. You know - zero prior knowledge, zero expectation results in five-star rating.Although I'm more familiar with her as Spoiler, I thought Stephanie Brown was really engaging as the new Batgirl. It's not quite an origin story so much as the 'first week on the job'-type of tribulations...

From Bryan Q. Miller, a staff writer on the TV series Smallville, comes a relaunch of the character Batgirl, with another new character donning the outfit.Batgirl has been a difficult character for the DC universe, and the focus of much debate over the years. The original Batgirl, Betty Kane, was introduced in 1956 as a way to put an end to rumours of Batman & Robin’s “homosexual tension”, as suggested by Frederic Wertham’s famous book “Seduction of the Innocent”. She was abandoned in 1964, when...

Stephanie Brown as a character owns real estate in my heart and she always will. Yes, I'm writing this late and it is shameful. I adored this book, this entire run was fantastic. I feel like they hit a great voice for a character that many loved and quite a few didn't. Stephanie gains the Batgirl mantle after the previous owner, Cassandra Cain leaves upon the death of Batman. They don't really touch much on her friendship, which is a shame as its a cornerstone for Cassandra's own Batgirl run. Th...

For some stupid reason, I thought there might be more boy-drama and catty in-fighting than there was. I'd been told to read this by someone with pretty good taste in books, so I probably shouldn't have doubted her. The art is crisp and the writing is mostly on-point. The character is more interesting than I had hoped for. I'm following Stephanie in the current Detective Comics run so going back to previous interpretations of her had me a little nervous. I'm planning to finish of the series today...

Batgirl is a character that's really important to me, and this reread reminded me of why I so particularly love Stephanie Brown under the cowl. She is a Batgirl who represents second chances, believing in yourself when no one else does, and finding your way to hope. (She also has a sense of humor to rival Buffy Summers.)

Omg I adore Steph. She's a fresh humor air and her relationship with Damian is hilarious. Bet Babs will make Steph a great successor after Cass...

It had been a long time since I'd read a superhero comic that was so, well, FUN. I had read a little of Stephanie Brown as Spoiler, mostly as related to that horrible War Games story arc years ago. But here, she's a breath of fresh air -- in the same way that Invincible: The Ultimate Collection, Volume 1 was for me in the past. The book is funny and witty. And it includes Oracle as Batgirl's mentor (one of my favorite comics characters). Batgirl doesn't know what she's doing, and she screws it u...

This was a really fun and action packed volume! I am new to Batgirl, but I got filled in pretty quickly about who Stephanie Brown was and how she became the new Batgirl. I liked seeing the Oracle as part of the support cast in the series and I can't wait to see more of her.As for the villains. There was a whole host of them! But I must say that Scarecrow creeped me out the most!The interaction between Batgirl, Robin and Batman is also great! Overall I enjoyed this story and will most certainly c...

Book Info: This collection contains Batgirl issues #1-7.ABSOLUTE RATING: {2.5/5 stars} (Rounded Up)STANDARDIZED RATING: <2/5 stars>Stephanie Brown – former superhero Spoiler and current Batgirl – is starting her freshman year of college at Gotham U. She's still getting into the swing of things as an official superhero, and must learn to juggle schoolwork and regular nightly patrols, while avoiding raising her mother's suspicions about her extra-curricular activities. Meanwhile, Barbara Gordo...

Smallville's Bryan Q. Miller gets the job of introducing the new Batgirl with former Spoiler Stephanie Brown picking up where Cassandra Cain left off. I've always liked the Steph Brown character, with all her flaws she's more human than a lot of the extended Bat-family and a lot more vulnerable. I'm sad to see Cassandra go though. Miller knows how to have fun with his character in these first 7 issues, which includes a highly amusing team-up between our heroine and the newest and most insufferab...

Why did Stephanie get a small time of being batgirl?Only three volumes?Come on!Barbara and Steph teaming up is a one-of-a-kind dynamic duo and make such a good team.I LOVE ITTTT SO MUCH!! :D

Podcast that made me want to do some Steph Brown research https://www.geekhistorylesson.com/epi... and Batgirl Rising did not disappoint. This was a simple read , but I feel that it brought so much depth to all the characters. The dynamic Steph has with Damian and Babs is so enjoyable. The art too is perfect for a comic in a college setting.

I’ve wanted to read this for a while as it is pretty highly rated. The first two issues were not that great but it really picked up after that and turned into a solid introduction for Stephanie Brown’s Batgirl. Worth a read for sure!

There was some considerable controversy among comic book fans when DC Comics chose to make Barbara Gordon the post-New 52 reboot Batgirl once again. Not only did the editors at DC replace Stephanie Brown with Barbara Gordon, but they rewrote the continuity so that Brown was never Batgirl to begin with.After reading the first volume of Brown's stint as Batgirl, Batgirl Rising, I can say that, as much as I like Babs, I'm really disappointed as well. Stephanie Brown is an amazing Batgirl, because s...

I am such a sucker for Damian I cannot rate this objectively, I can't even talk about it sanely... I know in my heart of hearts two things. (1) When I had the chance I barely read much that featured Damian so I always wonder why I seem to be so obsessed with him now. Hmm, actually I guess I know the reason... he's dead. It changes everything. (2) There was a two but I keep thinking about how he's dead now and it makes sad all over. At least he's alive and well in Batman: Li'L Gotham #1 being is