Tag Archives: Barbara Gordon

1990s’ Batman comics reading guide – part 6

Posted on September 3, 2020 by I.M. Baytor

Night Cries Back in part 3 of this reading guide, I mentioned how 1994’s crossover event Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! retroactively altered the DCU’s past and, thus, served to selectively revise (or fix) certain aspects of Batman’s canon. Rather … Continue reading →

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Things you can learn from Barbara Gordon comics

Posted on June 14, 2017 by I.M. Baytor

Besides kicking ass as Batgirl, over the years Barbara Gordon has been a librarian, a member of Congress, and a first-rate hacker who – under the codename Oracle – supplied intelligence to the crime-fighting community of Gotham City. The combination … Continue reading →

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On Barbara Gordon, Batgirl

Posted on June 22, 2015 by I.M. Baytor

          Leave it to comics to take a completely perfunctory and derivative concept and actually do loads of fascinating stuff with it. The best example I can think of is Batgirl, aka Barbara ‘Babs’ Gordon, who … Continue reading →

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