Rating 4.5 out of 5
Pure FUN. Nothing cerebral about it...but who cares. It's so Great... just to have a FUN comic. Bryan Q Miller is a master at telling Stephenie's story. I hope he NEVER leaves this series. I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. It was good laughter...I was laughing with my heroes NOT at my heroes. This story was wrapped up in one issue, so if you don't have any of the Batgirl/Stephanie issues, you could pick this one up for a fun ride and not invest in another....but I bet you will.
VAMPIRES...I love a good Vampire story...but lately you can't swing a stick without hitting one. They've become a staple of TV. There's Vampire Dairies, True Blood, Being Human, and the newest show, "The Gates."
THAT's just the shows that are currently produced.
In reruns, you have Buffy, Angel, Moonlight, Forever Knight, Kindred, and one that I wish to see again but haven't in a long long time, Dark Shadows.
OH... and let's not get started with what's in the Movie Theaters.
They seem to be just as prevalent in comics.
NOT that this is a bad thing.
BUT HOW...Oh how.... CAN you have a NEW take on the same OLD OLD OLD Story.
Whatever it is...it's been done. Hasn't it?
You see...there's this scientist (refreshingly not crazy), who had a lab overload with his experiment. He was working on a way to generate "Hard Light" (force fields) to create a three dimensional construct that could hold an image that was projected onto it. This is not that hard of a concept for sci-fi fans. We've seen it before, on Star Trek: Voyager, with the EMH Doctor.
The lab happened to be right next door to the campus theater, where Stephanie Brown(Batgirl) and Lana Lang(Supergirl) are watching a old black and white horror film with Dracula which had been redone in 3D. The blast from the lab only lasted a second, but since film runs at 24 frames per second, this releases 24 black and white "Draculas"...Blah blah blah...who run "Amuk Amuk Amuk" in Gotham City.
Control rods can destabilize their photon matrices when done at high impact. This is Miller's .. Wah Lah ...for stake through the heart.
Now LET the 'Buffy' in all of us out and just sit back and ENJOY.
There is a two page spread of the girls staking black and white Dracula's that is pricelessly funny. One 'Dracula' had tried to get away on a Segway.
This was the best Girls night out I've read in a long time.
Because the next issues are going to have more grittier stories, Miller will be teamed up with Dustin Nguyen on pencils. I'm looking forward to this storyline... but I hope Batgirl doesn't become too toughen.. too soon, I'm enjoying the current character
BATGIRL: Terror in the 3rd Dimension!
Writer: Bryan Q Miller
Penciller: Lee Garbett
Inker: Trevor Scott
Colorist: Guy Major
Letterer:Travis Lanham
Cover: Stanley "Artgerm" Lau
Publisher: DC Comics
Nov 2010
This was a great single issue.
ReplyDeleteI loved the whole thing. The cuteness and the girlishness of Stephanie and Kara.
I really like that Bryan actually writes a girl superhero who acts like a girl.
Loved the ice cream shot and the photo booth shoots too.