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- flashback of Shiva's youth, before Cass's birth. After those she's finally been getting some minor W's. They introduced Tenji whose only job seems to be verbally glazing her (I personally hate this sort of thing, you should show characters being cool instead of having another character say they're cool). But it comes so late. It's been almost a year since her solo book started. The first part was just a slog in the mud, for a character who has already been dragged through shit for nearly two decades.

The tragedy is that if this exact same arc, with no changes, was released during a time when Cassandra Cain/Batgirl is secure and well established as a character that has a permanent role in the DC universe, I would likely praise it. Because it's not awful. It's just doing the mostly-right thing at the wrong time.