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Batgirl #24

“It’s only the end if you want it to be.”

And that’s when I burst into tears.

Reblogging because I’m still not over this.

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I’ve been meaning to reblog this for a while and now feels like a good time. There’s so much I want to say about this moment. How hard it hit me then.  How hard it hits me now. How it’s stayed with me. How the same flood of conflicting emotions come back whenever I see this page. How much I love that Babs is there too. How much i love the colours. How much I love that there are tears *and* smiles. Everything.

But most of all, I want to say a huge “thank you” to the Batgirl creative team for letting us have this moment be Steph’s swansong. (For now.) Given how DC has treated her since, it’s pretty darn clear they didn’t have to. But they did. They didn’t make her die or suffer or feel pain, like the last time. They gave us closure, but didn’t rule out future storylines. They didn’t kill her off so no-one else would get to play with her. (RIP, Rikki Barnes.) They didn’t let her get within a million miles of a fridging. Best of all, they made sure her story stayed her story till the very end, and while we got to see a moment with just about every character who’d had an impact on her life, she remained the centre of it all. And when the time came for those last few words, they let her leave us with what she’d been bringing us for 24 wonderful issues and more: Hope.

~DreamR

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