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She's a big mess, through and through, like someone with a chemical imbalance who can be great one moment and destructive the next. I wasn't familiar with Gill or Farron's art before this comic, so it was nice to see each of them tackle part of the annual. Gill presumably is the artist for the first two-thirds or so of the comic, and his art reminds me in some ways of Denys Cowan's.

He's got a nice lean look to his characters, with some wiry, sharp ink lines that show up especially around the eyes and in their hair. At the same time, though, characters have features that are squared off a bit like noses or fingertips that keep them from looking too sharp or pointed. I also like how well Gill draws Barbara and Alysia in everyday clothing; it feels like what people would wear on the weekend, and with realistic and normal looking proportions to boot.

Farron's art is a little fuller and rounder, but it's not an unreasonable shift from Gill to Farron, and I appreciate that it happened as the book shifted from one season to the next. James hands over his letters to Barbara in exchange for her visiting sometimes. Barbara replies she doesn't promise anything and leaves. Barbara goes over her brother's fanmail and narrows her list of suspects down to two women.

Both turn out to be false leads, though. James' letters are driving Barbara mad until it dawns on her that his letters are a misdirection. Barbara checks his visitation log for anything unusual, and finds he has been visited by a shrink, even though he hates them. She remembers his shrink's name from his letter box: Meredith Sherman, presenting herself as a Psychology student wanting to profile him for her doctoral thesis. A bit of detective work discloses Meredith isn't a student at all.

Batgirl sneaks into her apartment and confronts her. Meredith calmly confesses her crimes and then attacks Batgirl with a pepper spray and a butcher knife. However Barbara subjugates her swiftly and demands to know why she got in touch with her brother. Meredith reveals it was James who reached out to her, helped her refine her methods and pointed out she couldn't be called a real killer unless she tangled with a bat. After turning her over to the police, Barbara goes to confront her brother, aware that he arranged all of it.

Barbara ignores James' taunts and agrees to visit again. She doesn't know what game he is playing, but she supposes you need darkness to see the stars. She swears she will not let him dim her light and leaves. James smiles, reflecting his sister isn't like the rest of the Bat-family. After all, back when they watched slasher films together she smiled, too. Some time later, Barbara was wakened from her sleep by her roommate Alysia Yeoh , stating that she needed warm bodies, and Barbara had been drafted for her volunteer organization's attempt to build a garden at a recently reclaimed abandoned lot.

Within three months, they had successfully made a garden - but Barbara hadn't been very successful at getting much of a life going on for herself. With all the work they put into the garden, though, Barbara was concerned that the poor people of Cherry Hill would come and take the vegetables they'd planted. Alysia responded that the food they planted was being grown exactly for those people.

Nobody could steal what belongs to everybody. That night, Barbara investigated a facility on the mainland of Kane County , having kept up her investigations into Mr. Rain for months. This was the first solid location she'd learned of since she began the investigation.

While on her stake-out, she soon became aware that Poison Ivy was present, watching her. Barbara was naturally suspicious, and Ivy was not forthcoming with her explanations for her presence. Even so, their motivations seemed to be allied, and Barbara allowed her to tag along, despite Ivy's claims that she was pregnant - with something other than a flesh baby - whatever that meant. As she cut her way through the chickenwire fence around the facility, Batgirl whispered that she needed to know what the man had told Ivy on that mission, months ago - or they couldn't work together.

After a pause, Ivy explained that the man had claimed Mr. Rain could fix her. As far as she was concerned, she didn't need fixing - even after years of doctors and law enforcement officials claiming that she definitely did.

Was wanting to save the earth so insane? Soon, though, they were spotted by the guards, and Ivy demonstrated what she was pregnant with : potential.

She managed to bind every man to the wall of the facility without killing a single one. Her power surprised Barbara. Ivy remained cryptic about what had changed in her as Barbara urged her onward and began breaking into Mr. Rain's lab. Inside, they were disturbed to find human bodies hung and bagged from the ceiling, all of them with scars all over their body.

It was another three months of working together before they got another lead. A particular patient - one of the same ones Batgirl had met on the first mission - had been placed under police lockdown after being caught during a raid.

Together, she and Ivy snuck into his room to ask him just how he was coerced into acting for Mr. The man was James Tucker, and he was once an accountant at a booming tech firm. When he learned of his terminal pancreatic cancer, Mr. Rain sent someone with an offer for him: a medical trial - an implant that could prolong his life by six months. He learned, however, that he wasn't a patient , but an incubator ; an organ farm.

The implant kept them alive, but it was only activated by being inside a human donor. After six months, Mr. Rain would have the implant removed - along with a viable organ, put into some rich patient, while the host died in agony.

Ivy explained that the implants hasd used plant DNA to replenish the unhealthy cells. As they left Tucker's room, Ivy commented that Mr. Rain seemed a bit of a bastard - such an understatement in Barbara's eyes, that she lashed out angrily, reminding that Ivy's lack of concern for humanity enrages her.