Batgirl Just Turned Meta Awareness into Her Most Effective Weapon
Warning: contains spoilers for Batgirls #6!
Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, just turned meta awareness into her most awesome weapon. In Batgirls #6, Batgirl finds herself the prisoner of the villainous Spellbinder, who is using Fear Gas-laced art to terrorize Gotham City. As Spellbinder rambles on about his schemes, Batgirl plays on his need, as a villain, to monologue—ultimately turning the tables on him. The issue is on sale now in print and digital.
Batgirls past and present have come together in the wake of the fall of the Magistrate, and the Scarecrow’s failed attempt to bring about the Fear State. The team, including Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown, soon found themselves facing the Tutor, a graffiti artist whose creations could mesmerize people. Using these powers, the Tutor railed against Gotham’s power structures—including the Bat-Family. The Batgirls have been on the Tutor’s trail, and in Batgirls #5, they discovered Tutor had a mentor, named Spellbinder. At the end of issue five, Spellbinder took Barbara Gordon prisoner, planning to use her to create his “masterpiece.” Now, in issue six, Batgirl must find a way to escape Spellbinder’s clutches—and her solution plays on a common comic book trope.
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The issue opens with Spellbinder pontificating on Gotham’s perceived lack of culture, as well as his days working at Arkham Asylum to Barbara Gordon, tied up to a chair. While employed there, Spellbinder realized he had an ability to connect with inmates through art, and he now plans to use this ability to control the people, and leaders, of Gotham City. Barbara, realizing that all villains like to monologue, keeps Spellbinder talking—long
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