Stephanie Brown finds herself teamed up with Damian Wayne! The new Batgirl and the new Robin must enter an area of Gotham City known to Gothamites as Devil's Square to save innocent civilians from being used in a real-life game of life and death! "Core Requirements" part 2.
Bryan Q. Miller is an American television and comic writer most notable for his work on the CW’s “Smallville” and DC’s “Batgirl.” (with Stephanie Brown as Batgirl)
This is the last leg of the second arc. Stephanie goes head to head with the new Robin aka Damian and Dick Grayson's Batman. Both Damian and Stephanie are outsiders and have something to prove. We also get a parallel journey between Barbara and Dick who had both started out as young Robin and young Batgirl way back when.
The arc is used to bring Stephanie back into the Bat family and set up the next arc.
Stephanie finds herself in an ambulance after she’d been shot last issue.
Oracle’s tracking her because she used a fake name. ‘Fay Wray’. Code for Compromised, Blonde and Under Duress. Oracle causes the ambulance to crash and Stephanie gets out and gets away.
Meanwhile Gordon and Nick are turning on the bat signal.
”So there’s just one light, Jim? Last time I checked, you’ve got about fifteen members of the bat family running around out there. ”
Batman asks about the kidnappers of Francisco (Fernando, seems to be a mistake) Gracia, son of real estate mogul Stafano Garcia, just abducted by armed thugs (who shot Stephanie).
Batgirl is watching (and reading their lips). Robin attacks Stephanie while she’s watching. Batman (Dick Grayson) breaks up the fight and puts them both in a time-out.
Some nice moments between Batman and Oracle.
Batgirl and Robin question Francisco’s girlfriend.
Batman in his flying Batmobile is sideswiped by Roxy Rocket who has Francisco in her rocket car. She throws him overboard. Batman catches him but it turns out to be a trick. The guy multiplies into a bunch of copies of himself and brings the Batmobile down with their weight.
Elsewhere Francisco’s father is trying to clear his debts by working with Roulette, who is setting up betting on Freddie “Riot’ Frankenstein (the multiplier man), Roxanne “Rocket” Sutton and Dr. Phosphorus to kill the Batman.
That was good. A little messy because they assume you know all these villains and such.
I’ll give it 3 stars. Some good character stuff. Good art. Good action.