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The following contains major spoilers for Batgirl #4, on sale now from DC Comics.
Cassandra Cain has finally figured out that Batman isn’t the only mentor she should try to emulate.
Batgirl #4 finds the titular hero standing aboard a moving train, surrounded by the world’s deadliest assassins. Surprisingly, the likes of Nyssa al Ghul haven’t come to kill Cassandra Cain, but rather in the hopes that she will join them in the fight against an even more malevolent force. Unfortunately, that very same malevolent force has already caught up with Batgirl and her unlikely allies, and it is becoming painfully apparent that if she wants to survive whatever comes next, she will have to stop thinking like Batman and start thinking like Lady Shiva.
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Written by TATE BROMBAL
Art by TAKESHI MIYAZAWA
Inks by WAYNE FAUCHER
Colors by MIKE SPICER
Letters by TOM NAPOLITANO
Main cover art by DAVID TALASKI
Variant cover by SOZOMAIKA
First seen in the pages of 1976’s Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter #5 by Dennis O’Neil and Ric Estrada, Sandra Wu-San originally took up the mantle of Lady Shiva to avenge the life of her sister. Over the course of her early career, Lady Shiva fought tirelessly alongside Richard Dragon in the hopes of hunting down the spy who cut her family down in cold blood. Although these adventures gave her plenty of opportunities to prove herself as a hero, Lady Shiva has become an explicitly villainous figure in DC Comics’ Post-Crisis timeline, in which she is the mother to Cassandra Cain.
Nyssa al Ghul, or Nyssa Raatko, was first seen in 2003’s Detective Comics #783 by Paul Bolles and Shawn Martinbrough. The daughter of Ra’s al Ghul and half sister to Talia al Ghul, Nyssa is a formidable fighting force just like the rest of her family, even if she isn’t as well known as her father or sister. Despite standing in stark contrast to her more overtly villainous father, Nyssa made it perfectly clear from the outset that this did not make her any kind of ally to the Dark Knight or the rest of the Batman Family.
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Batgirl writer Tate Brombal previously discussed the series and the story at its core, regarding it as “definitely overwhelming and in all the best ways.” Brombal added, “Because I know how big of a fanbase Cass has, and I’m part of them. […] I knew there was pressure going into it, but I was confident in the character. […] I was confident in how I wanted to format the series around her point of view… When I originally pitched this book, I wanted the first arc to be a definitive Cass and Shiva story because they’ve always orbited each other, [but] I never felt like they got any form of closure or reconciliation. […] So I just wanted to do a story that’s just them versus the world.”
Batgirl #4 is on sale now from DC Comics.
Source: DC Comics
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