The January/February 2016 list of DC Comics hardcover and trade paperback collection releases (posted September 2015) is out; as opposed to last month , when we saw a lot of new solicitations of 1980s/1990s comics collections, this month is a little more humdrum (they can't all be winners).If you've never read Kelley Puckett and Scott Peterson's Cassanda Cain, first of all shame on you, and second there's a collection for you this month; also, and the start of atrade reprint series. But nothing to really, really get the blood pumping, I don't think. Let's take a look:We had previously believed this to be called Cassandra Cain: Batgirl Vol. 1 , though now it's just "Batgirl." That's a little unfortunate -- I'd like to see this better differentiated from the Barbara Gordon volumes -- but the title is cute, "Silent Knight" being a mix of the originaland.The book collects all of the previous volume 1 and most of volume 2, going right up to. Theannual that's included has never been collected before, so that's nice; all in all a good start to this.The contents remain consistent from the earlier solicitation of this. The inclusion of the "Our Worlds at War" issue will make fun placement on the DC Trade Paperback Timeline . The new solicitation text for this ("Ed Brubaker’s legendary run on Batman is collected, starting with ...) strongly suggests future volumes to come.Previous solicitations had just#871-877, but the new solicitations include #871-881, the entire original volume. There are not many books I'm interested in reading in black and white nor buying twice, but Black Mirror was such a good story and Jock and Francesco Francavilla's art would look so good in black and white, this is very, very tempting.Nice to see the collection of the very firststoryline getting a reprint.Collects the first Jack Kirby issues of, and, plus#7. I won't spoil it if you're not up to date, but#7 is a triumph of serial storytelling back in the day, with events from that title significantly affecting the other Fourth World titles even though the effects wouldn't be felt right away.Includes#29 (Tim Drake vs. Jason Todd),#657 (Tim Drake vs. Damian Wayne),#139 (Tim Drake vs. Dick Grayson), and#3 (everyone vs. everyone), all of which rather suggests Tim Drake has some anger issues.Anothercollection that's not so long, just four issues and an annual, but darned if Tim Seeley and Tom King don't make it worth it. Sorry all who bought the first Grayson hardcover, but this one is paperback only. Midnighter appears, of course.Collects#21-27 and the Annual #1, which is still in the midst ofVol. 2 (or New Teen Titans Archive Vol. 2 , which included a Titans vs. Greek gods tale, and also details Changeling's past with the Doom Patrol. This is all plenty of issues ahead of, and still a ways to go until these paperbacks start reprinting previously-unreprinted material.The finalcollection beforecollects issues #35-40 and thetie-in.Collects the previous Jeph Loeb Supergirl: Power and Joe Kelly Supergirl: Candor trades, featuring the mid-2000s "bad girl celebrity"-type Supergirl.Not poor stories, though assuredly controversial. One certainly wonders, in the advent of theTV series, why DC isn't reprinting the more-closely-related Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle issues. Possibly (unfortunately) there's a bit more obvious prurience to these issues that might help sell them off the shelf, though the Gates stories will again seem more familiar to TV-watchers.Glad to see a reprint from one of my favorite Superman eras (behind the Triangle Titles) though why it's being reprinted necessarily is hard to say, short of the ubiquity of all things Joker these days. This is a straight reprint of the original volume, though at some point I wish this volume would include#784, a "Joker's Last Laugh" tie-in, which was a rather poignant epilogue toby Joe Kelly.The finalcollection before, including issues #35-40, the Annual #3, and thetie-in.What are you buying? Anything I overlooked?