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After the disaster of #3, I was going to check this one out to see how they were going to handle this whole "miracle" thing involving Barbara's ability to walk. After seeing this, oh boy. My mind is made up. Back in the previous issues, I found that Inner monologuing can become one the laziest story writing techniques if not handled properly. Not only was it not handled properly with Batgirl, it was setting records in how many inner monologue boxes you can have in a page. It almost felt like an overly worded web comic where the writer couldn't figure out how to properly convey situations outside of just using words to describe it.

And than we get this crap. Issue #4 where her inner monologues take on a reality of it's own. This time focusing on that gawddang wheelchair... Remember how I said that this new take was an attempt to show why Barbara Gordon should be Batgirl, and I said it was doing the exact opposite? THIS IS WHY. This whole "walking again is a miracle" nonsense is insulting. Walking again isn't a so much miracle when you survive a FREAKING GUN SHOT at point blank range. That's what should be the issue here, because gunshots generally kill people. Not using wheelchairs. But that's not what's going on here. It's because she's able to walk again that's the problem. Did she not inner-monologue in issue #1 that being in a wheel chair wasn't such a bad thing? And that people unintentionally think that it's a burden when in fact it's not? Than why this? Why should being out of a wheel chair make her feel guilty when she knows herself that it's not such a burden for other people who are in wheelchairs? I remember when I was called out for saying "bound to a wheelchair" because that was insensitive. Than what's this? This story is trying to sell us on walking is as guilt ridden as surviving a gun shot. Those are two completely different things.

I have officially dropped this comic. But don't worry. Our new, "doesn't work without a man" Wonder Woman will have good company.