Since everyone's mad about the prologue to the Killing Joke DTV, I'm going to run the story they should have used instead. In 1997, DC released four prestige one-shots starring Batgirl, Bane, Poison Ivy, and Mr. Freeze to hype Batman and Robin (all four turned out to be much better written). They got Kelley Puckett to write this one, and a couple of years later he'd go on to create Cassandra Cain, the superior Batgirl.
Batman: Batgirl storytime
Daniel Sanchez
Dylan Howard
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Blake Adams
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Carter Thomas
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Jonathan Peterson
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Charles Gray
>starring Batgirl, Bane, Poison Ivy, and Mr. Freeze
Has the Poison Ivy story written by Neil Gaiman been storytimed recently? That's definitely my favorite story starring her. (though admittedly she doesn't have many good stories aside from maybe GCS)
William Ward
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Logan Foster
I haven't seen it. John Francis Moore wrote the one-shot though.
Logan Morgan
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Sebastian Sanchez
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Jacob Morgan
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Sebastian Stewart
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Leo Martinez
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Thomas Taylor
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Blake Phillips
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Julian Mitchell
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Easton Brown
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Nolan Sullivan
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Cooper Richardson
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Josiah Nguyen
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Charles Gutierrez
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Samuel Hernandez
I know it was included in the Whatever happened to the Caped Crusader TPB, along with the stories Gaiman wrote about Riddler (pic related), Two-Face, and The Penguin
Carter Roberts
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Carson Perry
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Justin Sanders
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Owen Williams
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Lincoln Howard
It's self-defense, she's in the clear legally. Emotionally though...
Leo Gutierrez
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John Sanchez
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John Ward
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Ian Campbell
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Charles Butler
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Easton Robinson
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Jeremiah Sanders
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Jacob Smith
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Xavier Stewart
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Zachary Young
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Jaxson Richardson
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Brody Clark
Manface-Babs looks hilarious in that 2nd panel. Pretty good looking girl for a 40 year-old alcoholic.
Easton Ross
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John Nelson
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Mason Smith
The Bat does not k... whoops!
Jose Rodriguez
Take your victories where you can get them. Also, very exploitable last panel.
Joseph Thompson
I like how Joker changes his outfit twice in one night.
Nathan Miller
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Adrian Hill
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Liam Sanders
>this was worth it
Was it, Barbara? Was it really?
Aiden Parker
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Alexander Thomas
>Joker can only successfully hit Batman with his eyes closed
Henry Hughes
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Robert Lopez
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Hunter Thompson
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Isaac Wood
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Parker Long
That's it. How this could be tied into the Killing Joke: Batgirl, haunted by the life she took in self-defense, quits being Batgirl. Joker, angry at being laughed at for being crazy, decides to test out his "one bad day" hypothesis. Batman, recovered from his headwound, decides to talk to the Joker to prevent them from killing one another, and later on feels more guilt because he couldn't prevent Barbara from getting shot after she had saved him.
Easton Barnes
Why isn't DC smart enough to do this?
Jordan Wood
Gotta chase those controversy dollars. Though chances are good no one there even remembers this story.
Brody Young
I'm not sure *I* get it...
Carson Gonzalez
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Daniel Fisher
Oh, right, THIS comic. The one where Batgirl gets her ass licked and lucks out at the end
Shoulda storytimed Batgirl Year One, instead. That's the good Batgirl comic
Aiden Baker
There's only one? What about the Batgirl/Catwoman one from Batman Confidential?
Daniel Ward
Well yeah, a gymnast who took a self-defense course shouldn't be able to beat up criminals as if she were Batman. She does solve problems with her intelligence, she's just not great at it.
Evan Sullivan
For me at least, the Joker's reaction here is one of his most memorable stories
I'm surprised it's not talked about more
And I didn't read a long time ago either, I just came across this a couple years ago while looking at batman stuff
Daniel Rogers
Thanks for the read OP!
Matthew Fisher
That one's okay
All of these are better than Steph/new Babs
Colton Walker
>The one where Batgirl gets her ass licked
lewd
Oliver Wilson
>The one where Batgirl gets her ass licked
But Gordon isn't even the one who's licking it.
Gavin Gray
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Brayden Hernandez
>Batman: Batgirl
Thanks for sharing this awesome story, is there a download link. I have some friends that have yet to read it and wanted a copy of it to read later because their at work right now
Isaiah Smith
haha! Look at this guy! He doesn't get it!
I don't get it
Jordan Watson
I have and loved this book.
Jayden Wilson
Just search for batman batgirl 1997 cbr/cbz
Joker expresses concern that Batman might be dead, and when he finds out he's still alive, immediately gets set on trying to kill him again even though doing so would just distress him as it did before.