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Barbara Gordon: Non-criminal mastermind of the DC universe. (May contain spoilers)
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One of the more controversial figures in the DC universe, Gordon is the leader of a vigilante group known amongst themselves as the Birds of Prey. Why the controversy you ask? Well there is this whole thing where Gordon was shot in the spine by the Joker and left to a wheelchair ever since. A lot of people took that badly; in a world of magic, weird science and alien super-technology it seem to some people cruel to leave someone in a wheel chair. However, I personally think it sent the character in a direction that was ultimately beneficial.
A quick recap on the career of the Oracle:
So, Birds of Prey: What thinkest thou?
As of this post, the current issue is #120, and the next issue is due out the week of 8/20; and should feature lots of action from your friend and mine (spit) the Joker!
A quick recap on the career of the Oracle:
High school girl Barbara Gordon, in an attempt to get under her father's skin, creates a bat themed costume to wear to a costume party at Wayne Manor. She shows up at the party with no-one knowing what costume she was to be wearing, as she wanted her father's surprise to be maximized. At the party, she foils a plot by Killer Moth to kidnap Bruce Wayne for ransom.
This of course attracts the attention of Batman. Batman and Robin keep a close eye on her afterwards, and after preventing her from accidentally killing herself on her first swing-line jump they induct her for further training. This is left to Robin, while Batman plays the disapproving bad-cop role he loves so much.
Lots of hijinks and hilarity.
Barbara hangs up the Batgirl costume, bringing it out only for special occasions. She feels it is time to move on with her life.
BLAM! Shot in the abdomen by Joker in an attempt to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. This was a cruel heinous act yes, but this is the Joker we are talking about here.
Much hospital and recovery time, and a chance to rethink her life. Barbara decides she still wishes to do good, and uses her computer skills to fight crime in new ways.
The development of the Oracle persona, resulting in anonymous advisory roles for the JLA, JSA, Batman, etc. Batman finds her of particular use, coming to rely on her almost exclusively for current data on his Gotham cases.
Officer Down: This is one of her first chances to get out from under the shadow of the bat, as Bruce is left wallowing in pity. Barbara and the rest of the bat-crew are left to carry on without him.
Aftershock and No-Man's Land: Barbara is reduced to being a police dispatcher for the Blue Boys during No Man's Land. With Gotham in ruins, her Oracle persona is put on a back burner.
Bruce Wayne; Murderer and Bruce Wayne; Fugitive: With Bruce ready to leave his mundane persona out to rot, it is once again up to Barbara and the rest of the Bat crew to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a former Wayne love interest.
The Gotham gang wars: After Spoiler inadvertently kicks off the whole thing, Gotham is left bathed in the blood of hundreds of gang members and innocent bystanders. Plans to end the whole thing get shot all to hell resulting in further violence. The War ends with Barbara sacrificing her long time home, the clock tower, to save Batman from a fight to the death by forcing him to save her from a self-destructing building.
Barbara takes her show on the road. Several operations are conducted while Barbara is living in a converted airplane that was... liberated for the purpose and modified for use by Ted Kord (of Blue beetle fame).
Barbara settles down in Metropolis. Conducting operations out of a Gotham style high rise apartment building, she encounters the computer entity Brainiac. Brainiac is defeated, but during the confrontation Barbara is infected with a human/computer virus which gives her more problems down the road than she is comfortable with.
Barbara finds a dozen satellites that used to belong to Lex Luthor. It's Christmas, it's Christmas! Oh, Luthor wants those back, and Calculator is tasked with the deed. However, Calculator is no match for the Oracle and the satellites remain in her hands.
Hey, the Brainiac virus is back, and many questions are raised as Barbara gets surgical treatment by the world's best doctors with the help of a slew of brand new, top of the line medical equipment, and supervised by Dr. Mid-Nite, Cyborg, and Superman. Many questions are raised by many caped or masked folks on just who this anon woman is that rates this kind of treatment.
Barbara Gordon finally clues her dad in on what she is doing with her time, and reveals to him that she used to be Batgirl (which he already knew). A confrontation with Batman over the activities of her agent the Huntress ultimately leads to Batman getting his hand on the Encyclopedia Mafia Gotham edition, and for once he actually praises someone's work.
Barbara confronts Superman on her authority to conduct her operations, and gets trapped into doing some missions for the US government. Issue is resolved when she cleans house (and clocks) on just who runs the show.
Gordon relocates again, out from under Superman's shadow and moves into the back yard of her former agent Black Canary (for several reasons). This strains her relationship with Canary, who thinks Gordon is keeping an eye on her. Also of note is the shadowy crime syndicate in town, which is so underground it doesn't seem to exist.
Present day
This of course attracts the attention of Batman. Batman and Robin keep a close eye on her afterwards, and after preventing her from accidentally killing herself on her first swing-line jump they induct her for further training. This is left to Robin, while Batman plays the disapproving bad-cop role he loves so much.
Lots of hijinks and hilarity.
Barbara hangs up the Batgirl costume, bringing it out only for special occasions. She feels it is time to move on with her life.
BLAM! Shot in the abdomen by Joker in an attempt to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. This was a cruel heinous act yes, but this is the Joker we are talking about here.
Much hospital and recovery time, and a chance to rethink her life. Barbara decides she still wishes to do good, and uses her computer skills to fight crime in new ways.
The development of the Oracle persona, resulting in anonymous advisory roles for the JLA, JSA, Batman, etc. Batman finds her of particular use, coming to rely on her almost exclusively for current data on his Gotham cases.
Officer Down: This is one of her first chances to get out from under the shadow of the bat, as Bruce is left wallowing in pity. Barbara and the rest of the bat-crew are left to carry on without him.
Aftershock and No-Man's Land: Barbara is reduced to being a police dispatcher for the Blue Boys during No Man's Land. With Gotham in ruins, her Oracle persona is put on a back burner.
Bruce Wayne; Murderer and Bruce Wayne; Fugitive: With Bruce ready to leave his mundane persona out to rot, it is once again up to Barbara and the rest of the Bat crew to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of a former Wayne love interest.
The Gotham gang wars: After Spoiler inadvertently kicks off the whole thing, Gotham is left bathed in the blood of hundreds of gang members and innocent bystanders. Plans to end the whole thing get shot all to hell resulting in further violence. The War ends with Barbara sacrificing her long time home, the clock tower, to save Batman from a fight to the death by forcing him to save her from a self-destructing building.
Barbara takes her show on the road. Several operations are conducted while Barbara is living in a converted airplane that was... liberated for the purpose and modified for use by Ted Kord (of Blue beetle fame).
Barbara settles down in Metropolis. Conducting operations out of a Gotham style high rise apartment building, she encounters the computer entity Brainiac. Brainiac is defeated, but during the confrontation Barbara is infected with a human/computer virus which gives her more problems down the road than she is comfortable with.
Barbara finds a dozen satellites that used to belong to Lex Luthor. It's Christmas, it's Christmas! Oh, Luthor wants those back, and Calculator is tasked with the deed. However, Calculator is no match for the Oracle and the satellites remain in her hands.
Hey, the Brainiac virus is back, and many questions are raised as Barbara gets surgical treatment by the world's best doctors with the help of a slew of brand new, top of the line medical equipment, and supervised by Dr. Mid-Nite, Cyborg, and Superman. Many questions are raised by many caped or masked folks on just who this anon woman is that rates this kind of treatment.
Barbara Gordon finally clues her dad in on what she is doing with her time, and reveals to him that she used to be Batgirl (which he already knew). A confrontation with Batman over the activities of her agent the Huntress ultimately leads to Batman getting his hand on the Encyclopedia Mafia Gotham edition, and for once he actually praises someone's work.
Barbara confronts Superman on her authority to conduct her operations, and gets trapped into doing some missions for the US government. Issue is resolved when she cleans house (and clocks) on just who runs the show.
Gordon relocates again, out from under Superman's shadow and moves into the back yard of her former agent Black Canary (for several reasons). This strains her relationship with Canary, who thinks Gordon is keeping an eye on her. Also of note is the shadowy crime syndicate in town, which is so underground it doesn't seem to exist.
Present day
So, Birds of Prey: What thinkest thou?
As of this post, the current issue is #120, and the next issue is due out the week of 8/20; and should feature lots of action from your friend and mine (spit) the Joker!
...and when you are done with that; take a folding
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
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I have never read Birds of Prey but imagine I would enjoy it. Gail Simone used to write it, correct?
She started with issue 56, which is the start of, in my opinion, one of the best arcs in the comic.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Edit: Perhaps I will pick up that first Simone arc at some point, then
He only wrote issues #113-117.
I can't say I've read a great deal with the Oracle or Birds of Prey, but I do like how I've seen her written in the few times she's shown up in things I was picking up anyway.
Technobabble aside, of course.
He was laying down quite a bit of 'game' during the Countdown to Infinite Crisis special.
*Barbara takes the phone from Black Canary, who was Arguing on it with Savant*
"This is Oracle speaking now."
"Ah! How nice of you to-"
"I said I'm talking now Savant. And I want to clear up a few things for you."
*Barbara starts a telephone trace*
"You've escaped, and you think the world's a huge place, and you can hide anywhere, right? I'm here to tell you... that world? I own it. Your world is getting smaller by the second. And you can't hide anywhere from me. Every database, every security cam, and every police band has my fingerprints on it. Every moment you're out the noose pulls tighter. And Savant, just in case it's not crystal clear by now... Nobody messes with my partner."
*Savant looks at the C.C. camera on the wall and then the telephone reciever in his hand*
"She's overestimating herself. She can't... I'm certain that..."
*Hightails it out the door*
They almost kissed after an incident involving a train wreck, but they both realized it would have been a.. well a train wreck; so they kept it friendly.
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Edit: I wouldn't have given that response prior to the "One Year Later"... plot device (for lack of a better term).
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Man, I just realized. This makes me think of Laurie and Dreiberg on Archie in "Watchmen".
Edit: Only it ends going in the opposite direction.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Was she? Even with the past 2 decades or so of character development?
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chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Am I remembering something wrong, or was this not in BoP itself?
At any rate, referring to her as a secretary is incredibly condescending when you look at what she has accomplished without the other meta organizations.
Edit: I remember him shaking her confidence, but fuck, he is Superman. He does that to everybody. I seem to remember she got over it.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Also, I will add content to this thread:
So she's Anne Hathaway in "The Devil Wears Prada", and Batman is Meryl Streep.
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As a side note, we know now that Canary can mop the floor with the new Manhunter. Although that wasn't really ever in doubt.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
She is a professional, and I think her exploits have earned her the title.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
She says pretty much this in a JLA story. J'onn tells her that they could fix her legs, and she says she doesn't want to be an unfeeling cyborg or whatever (sorry, Vic!), but also that she likes that she's using her mind as her weapon now instead of her body.
She realizes that she's the only one out there that does what she does while there are thousands of "brute" heroes.
I mean, you don't have to be a cripple to be a computer genius