Batman: Urban Legends #2 this year has an Oracle story.

[thanekos]

It's written by Cecil Castellucci, who finished out the most recent Batgirl book.

It's drawn by Marguerite Sauvage, who drew a story in that volume's last issue, #50.

The villain of this story is the villain of that one, the Dick-Tracily-named biotechnician and hacker Vi Ross.

In this story, Barbara combatted Vi's latest efforts in the Gotham neighborhood of Burnside by " [making herself] more mobile. "





She marshaled her friends to investigate another set of crimes that seemed like Vi's - the theft of floppy disks from some " high-end tech stores ".

There was one more that seemed like a perfect target for the same kind of crime - she sent Spoiler off to deal with that one, and took a bus to meet her.



He wasn't any help, being carted off in an ambulance.

Oracle was left to puzzle things out on her own.

Her program pointed out that there were legacy systems, not yet upgraded, that still needed floppy disks -

- systems like ATMs, which were seeing a lot of usage in Burnside due to the card reader outage.

She looked up " banks scheduled for ATM inputs today ", and got herself access to the first result.



(" Pat Hogen ", because Gotham villains can't resist nomenclative temptations.)



(Pagecount's 4 of 12.

Colors're also Sauvage - letters're Becca Carey.)

Comments

[fra080389]

Cool art, meh story.
Vi's dress is a Covid homage?

[shakalooloo]

Or she keeps a pair of pufferfish on her shouders?

[silverhammerman]

I think it's modelled on a generic virus, not COVID specifically. That would be super duper tasteless for a character debuting this past year.

[tinygaylaura]

Parents, stop naming your children things which mean they will grow up to be supervillains

[beyondthefringe]

I like the idea of Babs having a mobile Oracle suit, but I hate the actual green tracksuit design. It makes her look like knock-off Poison Ivy. Hopefully she can do better.

[scorntx]

"Look out, they've got a floppy disk, the most dangerous form of information storage known to man!"

Not sure about this bank's security though. Even without letting the supervillains in by mistake, they just immediately take this mysterious redhead's word that she's the inspector, with this message that just arrived as confirmation rather than checking with someone else.

Are the citizens of Burnside just incredibly apathetic, given (judging by this) Babs is operating as Oracle with Batgirl helping her in broad daylight with no effort to hide her identity like, at all.
Or is Burnside just filled with tall, athletic, super-intelligent redheads with glasses, like how Star City is apparently filled with angry goatee'd pseudo-liberal white men?
(I mean, the introductory scene in that bank has two other redheads in it, so I'm just saying. Not that far-fetched, is it?)