I can't believe that I have to read another final issue of a series that I love. Aarrggh! But . . hopefully there's some future here. Barbara is moving on to a mini-series that'll be coming out soon. From what I gather, she'll be sorting out what's become of her life, and the Birds, and figuring out where she wants to go to next . . . finding her next purpose, or mission. The only one of these characters that I'm not sure what'll happen to is Infinity. She's the one we know about the least, and for the least amount of time. So, I'm not sure if she has family, friends . . whatever. Will she just stay in touch with Barbara since apparently she was her mentor? Only the future will tell. Carlie is going to be staying with Helena. And Zindy will probably be hanging out in a bar somewhere . . looking for a fight. She's a hell of a scrapper. Anyways, the whole thing falls apart because of this Syndicate in Platinum Flats, but really . . it's all because of the Calculator. With his Uternet he's able to infiltrate the Birds headquarters. He still doesn't know Babs role in the whole thing, but . . he does know that she's an employee. He's got this trick now, that he learned from Killg%re, so he uses the machines around him and escapes. He warns Babs that he'll let the internet repair itself and when her boss, Oracle, next tries to log-in . . he'll be waiting for him. I thought Tony Bedard and Claude St. Aubin did a pretty decent job with this final story-arc. Also some great covers from Stephane Roux. I see from the coming attractions that Kevin VanHook, Julian Lopez and Bit will be handling the Oracle mini. It looks like the Calculator is heavily involved and the story has something to do with the anti-life equation. That's great and all, but . . I'm still going to miss this book. But it looks like the entire Batman universe is getting a make-over, or reboot, so . . . this is part of that family. We're just going to have to wait a few months and see where everything washes back out from all of this.
I don't know about you, but I thought it was kind of funny that the Calculator, who is supposed to be so smart, wasn't able to put together the fact that Babs and Oracle were one and the same. I mean, come on, right at the beginning of this issue, he pops out of the computer screen and finds Babs surrounded by the other Birds, in the Birds headquarters! Shouldn't that have been a major hint? For a genius, Calculator wasn't all that bright here!
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