Batgirl Futures End #1

If you know me, you'll know that I'm a HUGE fan of the Batman family, mostly those who took up the Batgirl mantle. So when I heard that one of my favorite writers, Gail Simone was going to be writing one last Batgirl story, I was ecstatic!



Batgirl Futures End #1 One Shot was written by the great Gail Simone and drawn by Javier Garron.
The story starts off two years later, after the last Batgirl issue, with Barbara Gordon (the 1st Batgirl) getting married. After the ceremony, Babs psychotic brother, James shows up and tells Babs new Husband that he had to jump off the building in order to save her. Babs tried to stop him but it was too late.
On the next panel we see that it's been five years since the incident and three girls who are part of a group called the League of Batgirls.


In the photo above is Cassandra Cain(Gold/Yellow suit), Stephanie Brown(Purple suit), and Tiffany Fox (Pink suit). They were defeating a group of thugs who were selling weapons.
After that we see Barbara as the leader of the group of Batgirls and recalling the past from what she did after the wedding incident because she knows who is in charge of the thugs who sold the weapons.
She had gone undercover and worked with many of Batman's foes to gather data on them and defeat them. We see that she asks Bane to teach her. For many years she trained under him and gained his trust until one day she walked away without him knowing.
Now back to the present. Babs asked the girls to come back to the cave when she got a call from her old teacher, Bane. He tells her that he has placed 6 bombs in crowded areas in Gotham and that he would detonate them if she didn't come and face him. Babs leaves the cave to go and find him.
Later on we see that the girls came back to the cave and find it empty. Then a video that Babs recorded before she left starts to play leaving the girls in tears.
In the next panel, Babs arrives at Bane's location and they start to talk. Then start to fight. While fighting Babs shares some very emotional things which leads to one of my favorite panels in the issue pictured down below.



She then proceeds to defeat Bane but as he falls, the detonator to the bomb slips from his hand but Tiffany comes in to save the day and catches the detonator. Cassandra, Stephanie, and Tiffany regroup with Barbara and share a group hug.


This was an amazing way to end Gail's Batgirl run but it made me want to see more of the League of Batgirls.