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Cass Omnibus 1:
Batgirl #1-19, Batgirl Annual #1, Batman #567 and #569, Ghost/Batgirl #1-4, Young Justice #21, Batman: Gotham Knights #2, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight#120, Detective Comics #734, Superboy #85, The Batman Chronicles #18, Azrael: Agent of the Bat #56-57 and #60-61, a story from Batman: Gotham City Secret Files #1, and a page from Young Justice #20

DC Finest:

Nobody Dies Tonight:
Batgirl #7-27*, Superboy #85, and* Supergirl #63

Silent Knight (not to be confused with old tpd from the mid 2000s):
Batgirl #1-6; Batgirl Annual #1; Batman: No Man’s Land #0; Batman #567 and #569, Detective Comics #732 and #734; Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #120; Azrael: Agent of the Bat #56-57 and #60-61; The Batman Chronicles#18; Batman: Gotham Knights #2; and Ghost/Batgirl #1-4.

So there are differences but owning both the DC Finest editions covers mostly the same ground. Omnibus covers more of her crossovers while DC Finest goes farther into her first solo series

Ok so bolded are the issues not in the other.

Cass Omnibus 1:
Batgirl #1-19, Batgirl Annual #1, Batman #567 and #569, Ghost/Batgirl #1-4, Young Justice #21, Batman: Gotham Knights #2, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight#120, Detective Comics #734, Superboy #85, The Batman Chronicles #18, Azrael: Agent of the Bat #56-57 and #60-61, a story from Batman: Gotham City Secret Files #1, and a page from Young Justice #20

DC Finest:

Nobody Dies Tonight:
Batgirl #7-27, Superboy #85, and Supergirl #63

Silent Knight (not to be confused with old tpd from the mid 2000s):
Batgirl #1-6; Batgirl Annual #1; Batman: No Man’s Land #0; Batman #567 and #569, Detective Comics #732 and #734; Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #120; Azrael: Agent of the Bat #56-57 and #60-61; The Batman Chronicles#18; Batman: Gotham Knights #2; and the long-out-of-print crossover series Ghost/Batgirl #1-4.

So there are differences but owning both the DC Finest editions covers mostly the same ground. Omnibus covers more of her crossovers while DC Finest goes farther into her first solo series

Cass’ journey really is tracked by her relationship with flowers. I know lots of us know this already but I thought I’d juxtapose some of the panels.

One of her formative memories is that she helped rip apart the lives of a man delivering flowers to their partner (City of Light). In her first series (Batgirl 2000), the first panel is of her trying to put together the puzzle pieces of a rose. She buys her own rose and learns to take care of it. She even gifts a different flower to David Cain for Father’s day.

Batgirl 17 (2026) kind of wraps it up a little with the lotus flower for its qualities instead. The rose was her trauma and seeing the beauty of life, deeper emotional attachments that she never had and that she shattered or her need for redemption. The flower for her dad was picked as a more general gift she would imagine people give to their parents.

The lotus is her own persevering sense of justice and emerging from the darkness. So it’s a big move away from the rose focus. Everybody killing each other over flowers in the first arc of the current run must also have been ironic.

The most recent arc also has the forget me not, of course, continuing the theme into new territory in Victoria but not of her choosing of course.

Cass’ face is so offended and “Did you both forget about No Man’s Land?”

Jim is so nonchalant too, just hands behind his back watching Harvey get tossed as a demonstration like he just wanted to see what Babs’ protege could do.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eISCZbfezTY

Written by Tate Brombal

Art by Takeshi Miyazawa

Cover by David Talaski

Variant cover by TRAVIS MERCER

Bad Seeds spot foil variant cover by Guillem March

Batgirl was supposed to finally have one night off at Bà Bao’s noodle shop, but when Gotham erupts into a nightmare of prehistoric plant life, suddenly she is the sole protector of an entire restaurant of Gotham citizens. With a bounty on her head and a lethal jungle crawling with monsters outside, will Batgirl survive the night … or will this night off actually kill her?

Sorry, but which issue did this happen in?

Cass shows up briefly in Damian’s solo series to tease that she would have won the tournament on Lazarus Island instead of Damian if she was around. So a slight update to confirm that they are on more easy terms than Gates of Gotham, New52, etc. Also Steph definitely not a vegetarian!

Only ever crumbs here but still so much potential for stories!

Before being her protégé, Cass was Bab’s friend and courier. I know there have been team ups like Batgirls and BoP, but I really hope someone gets to write more character stories of them hanging out together one on one specifically.