Favorite Crime
Shadow of the Batgirl
By Sarah Kuhn & Nicole Goux
18 Oct, 2024
Doing the WFC's Homework
Sarah Kuhn’s 2020 Shadow of the Batgirl is a superhero graphic novel. Comic art is by Nicole Goux.
David Cain had a simple dream: raise his daughter Cassandra as an assassin, in an environment bereft of speech and human contact (save for martial arts). Result: a girl who can read body language but not print, a girl with prodigious skills at killing whose rudimentary speech skills will protect her from any suggestion what she is doing is wrong.
All it takes to ruin this perfect plan is a single word.