TBU Review: Barbara Gordon: Breakout #5

In this review of Barbara Gordon: Breakout #5, Sparrow’s fate is determined while Barbara does her best to protect Councilwoman Vanessa Woods Barbara Gordon: Breakout #5 main cover by Karl Kerschl (DC Comics) BARBARA GORDON: BREAKOUT #5 Written by MARIKO TAMAKI Art by AMANCAY NAHUELPAN Main Cover: KARL KERSCHL Variant Covers: RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE, NIMIT MALAVIA, HAYDEN SHERMAN Page Count: 32 pages Release Date: 9/9/26 This review contains spoilers We left the last issue with Sparrow, Barbara’s friend, seemingly dead as she was found in a laundry hamper. This issue opens with Bab’s receiving a note that she is still alive miraculously. Sparrow was left for Barbara to find and she wonders why. We see a man on the phone next to Sparrow’s body in a hospital and says that it will be listed as a suicide when she dies. Myrna sneaks into Sparrow’s room and asks her who did this to her. Sparrow can barely speak but starts to tell her. Meanwhile Barbabra approaches Vanessa Woods to tell her to stick by her but Woods wants nothing to do with her. Die runs up on Babs and fights her again, even biting her this time. Barbara tells Die that Sparrow wasn’t her but Die doesn’t want to hear it and the...