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Small cameo but Damian calls her sister now

Craziest thing is that Batman Rise of Sin Tzu was a beat em up action game, which would have been perfect for a playable Cass. The tie-in comic series for the game has Cass and Oracle though the game actually just has the mainline DCAU characters.

A lot of the above draws directly from his interviews word for word:

https://youtu.be/866ToIkLksA

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On his upcoming back up short story and a drawing

DC has ups and downs and their own controversies, but props to them for letting Jessica Chen and Andrea Shea in their editorial roles and all the artists and writers put together the Asian Superhero Celebration special issue directly as a positive statement against what was happening.

Interestingly Cass first retook the Batgirl title in late 2020 as the pandemic unfolded.

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