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Batgirl Vol. 3: Death of the Family (The New 52) Paperback – May 27, 2014

by Gail Simone (Author), Ed Benes (Illustrator), Daniel Sampere (Illustrator)
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Three years ago, the Joker took everything from Barbara Gordon. Now he wants more. Returning to Gotham City after a long absence, the Clown Prince of Crime is out to free Batman from his closest allies-his “family.” He targets Batgirl, putting Barbara face-to-face with her worst nightmare: the man who put her in a wheelchair.

But the attack on her and her fellow Bat-heroes is only the beginning of Batgirl’s family problems. Her mother - newly returned after more than a decade of estrangement - has been captured. Her father has been poisoned. And her brother, psychopathic Arkham Asylum escapee, may actually be working with the Joker. Can Batgirl save the lives of the people she is closest to from the two maniacs who have hurt her most?

BATGIRL: DEATH OF THE FAMILY is a searing tale of the blood ties that bind, from writers Gail Simone (SECRET SIX) and Ray Fawkes (CONSTANTINE) and artists Daniel Sampere (TRINITY OF SIN: PANDORA) and Ed Benes (BIRDS OF PREY). Collects BATGIRL #14-19, BATGIRL ANNUAL #1 and BATMAN #17.
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"This is a must-buy series."—The New York Times

"It's good to see Barbara Gordon kicking ass in the cowl again."—io9

"Simone does not disappoint."—IGN

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A multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed writer of comics and animation, Gail Simone began writing as a columnist for comicbookresources.com, producing the comics parody column "You'll All Be Sorry." She has since had fan favorite runs on such books as WONDER WOMAN, SUPERMAN, SECRET SIX, BIRDS OF PREY and the creator-owned WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY. She currently writes BATGIRL for DC Comics.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1401246281
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC Comics; Illustrated edition (May 27, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781401246280
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401246280
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.61 x 0.39 x 10.16 inches
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Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey, her other notable works include Secret Six, Welcome to Tranquility, The All-New Atom, Deadpool, and Wonder Woman. In 2011, she became the writer for Batgirl. Though fired from Batgirl in December 2012 by the title's incoming editor, Brian Cunningham, she was rehired on December 21 after DC received backlash from fans. She became the writer for a new Red Sonja series in 2013 with Dynamite Entertainment.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Batgirl Vol. 3: Death of the Family
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2014
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Batgirl Vol. 3 is another great volume in the Batgirl series and continues to be one of the best character titles out there. The book starts off with the talon Batgirl faced in the previous volume, locked up. She ends up escaping with some help, and ends up in another battle with Batgirl. I liked this talon character and how she's developing and hope she gets more use. The next part of this novel covers the "Death of the Family" story that crossed over most of the "Bat Family" books. The Batgirl part of this storyline is very good and they really show her emotions perfectly. During this storyline, James Gordon Jr. shows up again and shows just how evil he can be. The Joker and James Gordon Jr. are great villains for Batgirl, and a great story needs a great hero, and great villains. The novel ends with Batgirl chasing another costumed villain, Firebug, as well as her brother. Avoiding spoilers, the way this one ends makes me want to get the next volume of Batgirl when it's available in paperback on Amazon, which I will! I highly recommend picking this volume of Batgirl up. If you have the first 2 volumes, this is a must get. If you haven't gotten any of the Batgirl volumes yet, I'd highly advise you to pick them up as I find them some of the best stuff DC is putting out there.
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Rideout Clan
5.0 out of 5 stars Best to date.
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2014
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I'm guilty of not reading any of the Death storyline until this collection. I'm very tired of crossovers, the countless event titles each year and, frankly, sick of DCs shenanigans and start-stop failures. I do, however, openly admit that I follow Gail Simone's work with fervor. Her talent and perspective alone has time-after-time won me over to titles I never previously gave any credit or time to. Yes, even Atom.

Batgirl has always been a favorite of mine, regardless of Simone's involvement. But if you're looking at this collection you're either already well-aware of how far she's elevated the Batgirl bar with the first several issues (or couple volumes, depending how you read them), so her written needs no review.

I can't comment on it's relevance to the rest of the Bat titles in this event - I won't be able to until the rest of the books are dropped to super sale prices a fair piece of time down the road - but as a Batgirl title this is spectacular. It's Simone taking every bit of her talent and cranking it to 11, trumping her previous issues and, as far as I'm concerned, overshadowing even Snyder's work on Batman. It functions well as a standalone stretch and bleeds seamlessly into past and current (as of this review) story lines, with no sense of staccato speed bumps over not reading the crossovers.

That art is excellent. It truly is some of the best in the DC universe right now outside of Capullo's work on Batman. Different colorists weave through the collected issues but his lines remain strong enough to keep a constant pace on the visual narrative. The angles are crisp and exciting and sense of motion excites.

It's a wonderful collection; a joy to read through in one sitting. Also, some of the best Joker dialogue in recent memory.
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K. Roth
5.0 out of 5 stars First graphic novel series I bought and love it.
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2014
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Batgirl from the New 52 is a great series. I am new to comic books so I cannot compare this to previous models. I started reading this series about 6 months ago when my husband got me into comic stories. I read Superman for Tomorrow graphic novel, which stands alone, because I was familiar with him. When I went to the store, I didn't realize there were so many different titles being made. Batgirl appealed to me because she is a female and I like Batman. This series is very good. She is dark/self loathing like Batman. The Death of the Family storyline is well written and brings in EVERYONE from the Gotham City part of the DC world. And, after starting this series, which I whipped through the first 3 volumes of the novels, I added her to my pull list at the comic book store. It also got me into Nightwing series (the original Robin). This is a great storyline for women. I love it.
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leofiregod
4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite as good as volumes 1 & 2
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2015
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I complained in the review of the previous volume about the changing of artists during the book. Well, this volume is worse. They use even more artists and only one of them is top notch, Ed Benes. New regular series artist Daniel Sampier's work is a distant second to Ed's. Next would be Greg Capullo who penciled the Batman issue contained in this volume. The other couple artists used don't even bear mentioning. It's sad that the best book in the New 52 has a revolving door of artists. Art took a big step backwards as a whole in this volume. Art 3 stars.

The storyline with Joker and the one with James Jr were both awesome. The couple issues that Ray Fawkes took over as writer were surprisingly good considering how much I had come to love Gail Simone on this series from the previous volumes. I'm just glad that he didn't try to write for Babs the way Simone does. His focus on Jr helped him out, I think. Overall, the writing was top notch and that's somewhat surprising considering this was a tie-in to several other Bat titles. A lot of times I feel that crossovers lack something because of all the characters thrown together. This wasn't a company wide crossover so that probably helped. Writing 5 stars.

A step down overall from the first 2 volumes. The story was fantastic but the art held this volume back.
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 Ainda não tive tempo de ler, mas as ilustrações são muito bonitas e a encadernação muito bem feita. Mas o que surpreendeu mesmo foi o envio, nunca vi um livro tão bem embalado na vida, acho que quem preparou para o enviou embalou do jeito que gostaria de receber, merecia um aumento no salário, kkkkk! Chegou em ótimas condições e antes do prazo.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ist gut.!
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Lena L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Saga da non perdere
Reviewed in Italy on August 6, 2017
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Ho trovato molto appassionante questo episodio della saga di "Batgirl" e lo consiglio caldamente a tutti gli appassionati del genere
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Jose Aron Mendoza Flores
4.0 out of 5 stars Excelente comic, con una interesante historia.
Reviewed in Mexico on September 11, 2015
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El multiverso ofrece un gran catalogo de historias y esta no es la excepción. Una gran historia dentro del universo de Batgirl y Joker.
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Nicola Mansfield
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in Canada on November 13, 2013
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Absolutely freaking awesome!!! I got a tiny glimpse of Batgirl in Night of the Owls and I was interested, but after this book, I want more and have placed an order to read this series!! Wow! What an excellent, exciting, very creepy story. This story has the dark, eerie atmosphere that I love from the serial killer mysteries I love to read. Batgirl is awesome! The book starts off with Batgirl investigating some arsons being committed by homeless people but that is cut off and left hanging when she finds out from a source that the Court of Owls are still active. Then Catwoman and Batgirl team up together against the Owls to save a halfway decent female Talon. As I've said before I'm not into Catwoman, but I actually enjoyed this team-up with Batgirl. This was an action-packed thrilling story, very intense, and I loved knowing the Owls are still out there working behind the scenes. Then comes the best part of the whole book as both Barbara Gordon and her Batgirl persona deal with The Joker, Barbara's psychopath brother and the kidnapping of their mother. This was freaking creepy to the extreme. Heart-pounding reading and intense to the max. Very, very disturbing storyline. I never liked the old Joker, but this new one is a deranged psycho and demented beyond belief. He gives me the shivers. We also get a lot of backstory on Barbara's shooting that paralyzed her and her recovery throughout the book. Then comes a story which I believe must be a cross-over from Batman where the Joker has all the family kidnapped and tortures them. Again Intense. Finally, the ending is emotional. the death in the family secret is revealed and closure comes to part of the storyarc but it leaves us and Batgirl drained feeling that the next volume will possibly take a new direction for her family. The art throughout is gruesomely creepy. I'm majorly impressed with this book. Just loved the intensity of it and the outstanding quality of the story.
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