BoP v2 #10
So say you're in a very dangerous job. And for plot reasons your own safety, you have to pretend you're dead for a while. But you figure it's safe to tell a few close friends you're actually okay.
In this hypothetical situation, you'd include your daughter on that list of people who are allowed to know the truth, right? Because DC* apparently doesn't think so. Because "Cassandra's got enough to deal with right now."
So apparently letting her think her adoptive mother is dead is less difficult to deal with than the "burden" of being in on the secret and having access to Oracle's new headquarters. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, the storyline itself is pretty out of character for Babs-- I do not for one second believe that Barbara "I'm Oracle. I help people" Gordon would choose not to help her friends so she could hide in virtual reality because Batman told her to reinvent the internet.
I don't know. I wanted to love this book, but the relaunch has been a bit off all year. I don't know what to do. I don't want to drop the book. Birds of Prey is the comic that got me buying comics regularly. In theory, Barbara Gordon is one of my absolute favourite characters. Renee Montoya is set to show up soon and I don't want to miss out on that.
But a comic I love shouldn't hurt me like this, I'm really really upset right now. I want to send a letter but I can never make my thoughts articulate enough.
* I am placing my blame on DC and not Ms. Simone in this particular case, as she has discussed online that she tried to put Cass in the story and editorial wouldn't give her clearance to do so.
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