Batgirl #28 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

I'm...not really sure what I think about this issue.  I'm intrigued, to be sure.  But, I'm still not sure what happened here.

Silver appears to be a somewhat insane trustafarian with a servant and a vendetta against the Bat-family or, as he calls them, the vampires.  Of course, if I'm following the clues correctly, it's possibly that Silver is the vampire, though it's unclear why he doesn't seem to know that.

The confusion comes from the fact that we have an intentional perception inconsistency throughout the issue.  The main event of this issue involves Barbara planning to take out some kids wearing a variety of different masks; they're aspiring to be copy-cat killers like the ones that Barbara busted in the first issue of the series.  Batgirl makes her move, but, in the 30 seconds that it takes her to descend from the rooftop, someone has already taken out the kids (implying that s/he has superhuman speed).  Silver watches from the shadows, seeing Barbara as a vampire poised over the body of one of the kids.  However, the rest of us see that same kid dressed as a vampire, not looking like the normal human that Silver sees.  Later, however, Silver has kidnapped the kids and seems poised to kill that kid exactly because he now seems him as a vampire.  So, Silver sees the same kid as "normal" and a vampire, depending on the moment.  As I said, confusing.

It's for this reason that it seems like Simone is implying that Silver is a vampire, if a self-hating one.  (Paging Blade.)  But, again, why doesn't he know that he's one and why (and how) is his vision altered so that he (sometimes) sees the opposite reality?  Also, why does he think that an eight-year-old girl that he's also kidnapped is the queen of the vampire?  Many, many questions here.

** (two of five stars)