Hipsters Ruin Everything
Script:
Hope Larson
Pencils, Inks & Cover: Chris Wildgoose
Colors:
Mat Lopes
Letters:
Deron Bennett
Cover Price:
$2.99
On Sale Date: January 25, 2017
**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE
BOTTOM**
She’s back in Burnside! Okay
I am really pressed for time right now, so that’s all you’re getting Read on
for my review of Batgirl #7!
Explain It!
After that debacle of an
opening story arc, Barbara Gordon is back in Burnside, so hopefully things get
on track from here. It looks promising when we see two hipster criminals
breaking into Mongrels Nonconformist Pet Supply, in order to leave some of the
dog doo that neighborhood yuppies have failed to clean. Just then, Batgirl shows
up! And…she notes that her favorite coffee shop has been replaced by this pet
store. After letting the criminals go, she zips off, wondering where she’ll get
coffee from now on. The next day, she’s at the more upscale Modern Danish,
where Frankie is buying Barbara a “welcome back from Asia” cup of fancy joe.
Frankie tells Babs that the landlord is going to double their rent, and that
she’s going to move out with her girlfriend Malaya—so you’re basically screwed,
Barbara. She’s very happy for Frankie, but later walks down a flight of steps
which is basically like telling someone in a wheelchair to get bent. Before
they part, however, Frankie tells Barabra about a charity event being
co-sponsored by Gordon Clean Energy that evening, one which she should attend.
Oh yeah! Barbara Gordon is a
flipping MILLIONAIRE! She owns this clean energy company and has enough money
to buy an apartment building. Why the hell are they fretting about money?
Later, Barbara heads over to Burnside College to enroll in some Library Science
classes, which I guess is supposed to be a big deal. Whoopee, Barbara’s going
back to her Librarian roots. It never really bothered me that she was a
computer science major, in fact it made sense. But this nerdly pursuit makes
plenty of sense as well. She’ll have to volunteer at a library, which is all
well and good, and I’m sure will result in some story fodder down the line.
That night, Barbara attends the charity event at Club Angelfish, a plush indoor
pool with a big fishbowl at the center…though I guess it’s more of a humanbowl
since people are swimming in it. See? Gordon Clean Energy has plenty of money,
for crying out loud! You need a place to live, sleep in the humanbowl!
At the event, Barbara meets
Frankie’s girlfriend, then mingles with a bunch of terrible hipsters who seem
dismissive of the proliferation of homeless people in Burnside. She bumps into
Ethan Cobblepot, who knows exactly who she is and asks her out on a date that
Saturday. Cobblepots move fast! That Saturday, Barbara sees a couple of elite
hipsters use an app to have a homeless person removed from the neighborhood, so
Barbara suits up and stakes out the area for a few hours until a van that reads
“Safe Streets” pulls up and collects the bum. Forcefully. Batgirl trails them
to the warehouse district, where she finds that people are being taken to
Fright, that lady Scarecrow-type villain! Batgirl busts out of the back of the
truck, takes out the two toadies, and it looks like there’s going to be an
awesome face-off…but with the help of the homeless guy she restrains Fright and
is wrapped up just in time to make her date with Ethan. Boo.
Well, that pretty much
sucked. Every time it looked like something was going to happen, it didn’t. And
yes, there’s a page of fighting between Fright and Batgirl, but Fright didn’t
use any of her powers or do anything that made the scene different than the
endless kung-fu nonsense we got in the last six issues. What a disappointment.
The artwork is uneven but basically okay, and I think the penciller may ease
into a uniform look as he gets more comfortable with the characters. But if the
story doesn’t get more interesting, and fast, I can’t imagine that anyone will
give a crap.
Bits and Pieces:
There are a couple of times in this issue that it looks like something is about to happen, but then we're let down. Barbara is back at Burnside but she's still wandering around like a lost puppy. Penguin's son being in the mix is an intriguing proposition, but if the forthcoming issues are of this caliber, I doubt I'll care.
3.5/10
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DeleteI apologize that you don't like the reviews to our site. We don't try to shock people for views(trust me, we've been accused of that before and have suffered for it), we give our honest opinions, but were not high end reviewers. We try to pride ourselves on being 'just a bunch of dummies who love comics.' We've been like this since we first got set up, and will be it when we enter a civil war to destroy the site(Extreme but that feels like the way it'll go down).
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I like the words "Boo" "It Sucks"
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I'm so glad that this issue sucks balls.
ReplyDeleteI was going to give Batgirl this arc before I decided whether or not to drop it. Fuck that! I'm dropping it now. Everyone in this book is annoying and completely fucktarded, especially Barbara. This isn't worth $2.99, so $3.99 is definitely out of the question. I'm changing my pull list next Wednesday. So terrible I refuse to give a score.
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DeleteI think Reggie just put Anonymous in a bodybag
ReplyDeleteI thought this issue was the better of the series, but that's not necessarily a good thing. I like penguin's son, Nathan. He seems interesting, but that's about it lol
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