What happened?  This series had so much potential in the beginning.  We got to see some insight into Oracle's mind but it didn't feel we got a complete ending.  So what is the "cure"?  Does anyone receive it? 

BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SPOILERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR BLAAAAAA

I thought Joker shot Oracle in the spine?

How does shooting one in the stomach = paralysis?

Obviously this isn't the last we'll hear about his daughter Wendy...

I figured she would become batgirl...eventually

So basically Oracle will be reprising her role as in Birds of Prey to some extent by setting up missions, providing tech support, training, etc. for the new Batgirl?  How many Batgirls are there going to be?  Not complaining, just wondering. 

I'm impressed that in the space of one thought box (what's wrong with good old fashioned thought bubbles, anyway??) they eliminated the old 'the Joker raped her' theory.  Gritty, dramatic good writing was wiped out twenty-one years later by anti-climatic bad writing.  

I definitely didn't expect that kind of ending. For those who picked the Calculator's daughter as the next Batgirl this issue might have spoiled her chances.

I wonder if we'll see the new Batgirl from the get-go in BG #1 or will they drag it out over the first few issues, you know like in Black Panther.

Am i the only one who thinks that this series was dissapointing i read the first issue cuz it was battle for the cowl tie in but thought it sucked and skipped the rest and this didnt look any better

DC is just going to forget about Cane and im happy with it..and i have a good idea of who batgirl is :)

@Slinger said:

"@Gambler said:

" After shooting her he undressed her and took pictures. "

That is rape."

This seemed wrong to me so I looked it up.

According to M-Webster online:
"Rape is defined as sexual intercourse forced on a person"

After checking dictionary.com, medterms.com, thefreedictionary.com and even West's Encyclopedia of American Law, I still haven't found any definition of rape that would call undressing someone and taking pictures of them rape unless there was also unwanted touching of the genitals, breasts or buttocks.

Fyi, shooting someone, taking off their clothes and taking pictures, while terrible, disgusting and evil?  Not rape.

Battle for the Batgirl Cowl

I have it at home, thanks.

I didn't say I started the rape theory.  It's not even a theory I care much for.  It's just a theory, and it has been discussed for years.  But when a psycho villain shoots someone, undresses them and then takes pictures of them... You can see why people believe there might have been more, even if you don't agree with it.

I didn't say u did :) But when she's lying there in a hospital bed and there's a doctor and a detective right there, and neither one mention anything remotely connected to rape, its hard for me to see how that theory started. I guess I just haven't been around long enough cause I've never heard anyone debating whether or not she was raped. The DCU clearly has no problem writing rape into certain story arcs but their very specific about it. Whats said in the original scan is the same thing Oracle says in the last issue. I'm just not seeing how her word bubble changed anything.

How was that not a spoiler?

Oh...nevermind. It's vague. Ok.

The Joker didn't sexual rape her. He shot her in the abdomine. The bullet severed her spine. He undressed her and took pictures. He didn't violate her sexually.

But getting to the Oracle, I thought this was pretty good. I think the end is messed up. Poor Wendy. She loses her brother Marv and now she can't walk. But what should Barbra have done? Let him use the Anit-Life Equation on her? It might her helped her but then what would she become? Besides he killed people to obtain that equation. Helping his daughter doesn't justify murder.

I wish Barbra would learn to walk on her hands. She looked terrible when attacked by that Asia gang and had to crawl around on the floor. I'm not saying she has to fight on her hands or try to run after some one but it would sure help her when in a bind like that.