Batgirl #2 - DC

It's nice to see that J Calafiore has stayed inside of the Batman community for a little while longer. He recently finished the Gotham Underground series, and now it looks like he'll be on the 6 issues of this series. I like his art. Not necessarily for the way he draws his characters . . someone recently commented that they thought the characters in Batgirl #1 looked a little 'blocky' . . but his action sequences are phenomenal. I really like his perspective and the way his frames flow. There's a couple of artists out there that, for some reason, most of their faces look pretty similar . . including superstar John Romita Jr. But luckily most of them, including John and J Calafiore, have other aspects of their art that make them really fun to read. Yes Adam Beechen has made Batgirl a little intense for this series, but she's always been right there at that edge since she was created. She just seems to be taking it a little more personally, with this series, the affects Cain has had on her and her newly found 'sisters'. Right now, all she has is 'death' in her eyes . . at least when it comes to Cain, and now Slade. It appears that Cain and Slade first met when they were both contracted to kill the same person in Congola in 1975. It seems that they were so evenly match that they gained a mutual respect for each other and have been weighing their careers against the other ever since. Cassandra finds a handful of 'sisters' that were also being experimented on, but only one alive . . Marque. But it takes a while for each to gain the trust of the other. When Cain was drugging Cassandra, the formula was unstable. It appears that all of this effort is he, or Slade, trying to refine that. In the end, they walk in to one of Deathstroke's traps. I'm glad to see Cassandra in her own series again. It would be easy to have some of the other Bat-family show up to lend her a hand, but she doesn't lend to that type of character. She's more of a solo act. Even when she's in a group . . like the Outsiders . . she still seems to be on her own agenda. I loved the first series, and it looks like this one's shaping up to be pretty good also.