Batgirl Vol. 8: The Joker War

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New York Times bestselling author of Shade, The Changing Girl Cecil Castellucci continues her run on the Batgirl series--this time with new challenges and foes! Stop me if you've heard this one- Knock, knock... ...Who's there? Why, it's none other than the Clown Prince of Crime himself, the Joker. As the Joker War wreaks havoc all over Gotham, the Joker almost has control of Wayne Enterprises, and Batgirl has something he needs...So the Joker makes a special visit to Barbara Gordon's apartment to get it himself. Then, a mysterious murderer is running around Gotham killing redheaded women and dressing them up as Batgirl. Both Barbara's father, Jim Gordon, and her estranged brother, James Gordon Jr., think she's next, and they have to work together to find the killer before Barbara becomes a victim! Barbara has trouble trusting her brother, though, after the history he has with the rest of the Gordon family...But this time, she can't help but notice there's something different about him...almost like he's someone else... Award-winning writer CECIL CASTELLUCCI (Female Furies) and artist CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO (The Flash) and ROBBI RODRIGUEZ (Spider-Gwen, Goddess Mode) bring the Batgirl epic and heartbreaking Gordon family reunion to a conclusion in Batgirl- The Joker War. Collects Batgirl #45-50.

Cecil Castellucci is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade, the Changing Girl, Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, Soupy Leaves Home, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star, and Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Star Wars- Moving Target- A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing Female Furies for DC Comics. Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons, tor.com, Womanthology, Star Trek- Waypoint, Vertigo Quarterly SFX- Slam!, and many other anthologies. In a former life, she was known as Cecil Seaskull in the '90s indie band Nerdy Girl. She has written two opera librettos, Les Aventures de Madame Merveille (world premiere in 2010) and Hockey Noir- The Opera (world premiere 2018). She is the former children's correspondence coordinator for the Rumpus, a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and the founding YA editor at the L.A. Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles.