";s:4:"text";s:5882:" And, unlike other traditional heroes, Cassandra Cain was a character who was essentially raised to be a villain, but whose journey was all about choosing to be a hero. Shadow of a Batgirl is intriguing throughout.
I don't think I can recommend this book highly enough. This is a great new graphic for kids who love the Batman story. Although Shadow of the Batgirl is marketed toward young adults, I feel like this book is more middle grade-y for me. She makes friends with a restaurant owner, a librarian, and a high school student, but she's skittish about human contact. And though she did have her own series in 2000, Cassandra Cain has never been a character in the spotlight and has never achieved the same popularity as other characters who have donned the cape and the cowl. I felt like she has the best take on Batgirl artistically since Babs Tarr. There is really no good way to intro this character and stay true to her story without being dark. And I loved the art style with its cool palette and expressive, age-appropriate characters. These non-continuity novels allow our favs to explore new stories with long-standing (and new, too!) Some of my favorite panels had little or know words. If you know Cass’ backstory, then what you read in Just as in the comics, Cass is the daughter of assassin David Cain, raised without real human interaction to become the perfect killing machine. They're choices people make." One of my favourite renditions of Cassandra and such a great read overallThis book is coming out on my birthday!! First introduced to the pages of DC comics by Kelley Puckett and Damion Scott in 1999, Cassandra Cain is the underrated, largely unsung hero for whom underrepresented readers like myself have long been waiting. These non-continuity novels allow our favs to explore new stories with long-standing (and new, too!) We meet Cass during what ends up being her last job as an assassin.
In short, Cassandra Cain’s story has always been about heroism as a choice rather than as a chance vocation; about goodness as a decision we must make day after day, rather than an inherent trait some are born with.
"Good, evil, hero, villain--these aren't things people just magically become. She is an awsome supporting character in this book.This started off so slow, slow enough that I almost gave up on it. As such, this should probably have been geared for the YA and not younger crowd. “Shadow Of The Batgirl” is a great comic-book/YA graphic novel and a terrific read. I did like the colors used in the graphics and the variety in graphics to dialogue ratios. As much as I do like Barbara Gorgon, i do think she makes a better Oricle. What I really liked was the central role the library played in Cassandra Cain's story arc -- not so sure about her using stacks of books for her kicking workouts. This was the best of the DC Kids books that I've read so far.
Most of the graphic novels I read are in the Juvenile section.
all the stars! As much as I do like Barbara Gorgon, i do think she makes a better Oricle. by DC Comics I think Kuhn did a good job of introducing Cassandra's backstory (brainwashed daughter of an evil assassin trying to escape her father and become a hero) to potentially brand-new readers and while I miss getting to see Cass together with her adopted dad and ARC via Netgalley. It's just that we never see very simple, necessary elements like... elevators? Most of major, popular superheroes of the 90s and early 00s were largely male and largely white, their road to heroism defined by some sort of intrinsic, inherent goodness coupled with — most of the time, at least — some kind of major tragedy. I'm really enjoying most of these one-shot Graphic Novels that DC has been putting out under the DC Ink printing press.
