Birds of Prey by Kelley Thompson and Leo Romero

[marvelprince]

Decent end to our first story arc.

Though I felt like things wrapped up with the Birds and WW/Themiscryia way to quickly.

Birds invade the island. Take out every single Amazon they encounter. WW pops up. Kicks butt. Birds get locked up. Birds escape. WW is taken out and Birds take down zombie WW and Amazons. Sin merges with Megaera. WW threatens Megaera. Birds just leave island with no real discussion or anything with WW after that.

I know Barda said it was probably best to just leave but i would've liked further closure. Maybe in the future.

Hopefully Sin remains a constant in this book so we can see this new status quo for her.

I kinda like it, cause down the line you can have them as antagonist's and its already established.

Yeah, Megaera kind of reminds me of Venom, which would indeed be unique in the DC universe. Not the same powers of course, but it's the two personas thing. Megaera is basically a symbiote.

I also caught a pre-Flashpoint continuity reference. Cass appears out of nowhere, and gets told she's her father's daughter. That sounds like Batman, not David Cain, which means Kelly Thompson just restored Bruce adopting Cass to canon!

Interesting. I thought that was a reference to Cain, but I'm cool with either take really.

[Hypo]

BIRDS OF PREY #9
Written by KELLY THOMPSON
Art by VARIOUS
Cover by LEONARDO ROMERO
Variant cover by EJIKURE
Variant cover by CHRISTIAN WARD
1:25 variant cover by CHRIS NG
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 5/7/24

If the Birds of Prey have one mission, it’s “protect Barbara Gordon at all costs,” and that mission is…not going great. Dinah and her team search for Barbara in this strange new world that seems specifically designed to trip them up. Many mysteries lurk in the dark of this world, and some of them don’t even want to kill you…probably.

[Frontier]

So the team is:

- Dinah

- Sin

- Cass

- Barda

- Babs

- Mari

[Factor]

So the team is:

- Dinah

- Sin

- Cass

- Barda

- Babs

- Mari

I’m really excited about this team. I’d rather have Babs in the Oracle role, but other than that, it’s pretty much perfect.

[Hypo]

Birds of Prey #7 Women's History Month Variant by Sozomaika

[Frontier]

Birds of Prey #7 Women's History Month Variant by Sozomaika

They really love that pose for Dinah .

[Rac7d*]

I hope Babs is not braniac queen

[AmiMizuno]

I hope Babs is not braniac queen

Wait I know vixen is on the team which will be fun. Very curious would any of you want a spinoff comic like cass or any of the others by Kelly ?

[Rac7d*]

Wait I know vixen is on the team which will be fun. Very curious would any of you want a spinoff comic like cass or any of the others by Kelly ?

i dont think any of those women could carry a book by themselves right now

[OBrianTallent]

Wait I know vixen is on the team which will be fun. Very curious would any of you want a spinoff comic like cass or any of the others by Kelly ?

i dont think any of those women could carry a book by themselves right now

Probably true, but I would love a Barda and Little Bat mini series!!

[Godlike13]

I hope Babs is not braniac queen

I kind a hope she is. DC hasn't done anything with Babs in like 2 years. I love her in Nightwing, but she needs more going on.

[Frontier]

I kind a hope she is. DC hasn't done anything with Babs in like 2 years. I love her in Nightwing, but she needs more going on.

I would've liked to have seen Taylor give her some kind of arc or sub-plot but that obviously wasn't one of his priorities in the book.

[Godlike13]

I would've liked to have seen Taylor give her some kind of arc or sub-plot but that obviously wasn't one of his priorities in the book.

I would have liked DC to give her a major plot. DC has sidelined her as Batgirl and even pushed her out of BoP as Oracle. The issue is bigger then Taylor not doing enough.

[Frontier]

I would have liked DC to give her a major plot. DC has sidelined her as Batgirl and even pushed her out of BoP as Oracle. The issue is bigger then Taylor not doing enough.

They've been mis-managing the Batgirl brand for years and dragging Babs' character all over the place. I just don't think they know what to really do with her right now other than have her play support.

[AmiMizuno]

They've been mis-managing the Batgirl brand for years and dragging Babs' character all over the place. I just don't think they know what to really do with her right now other than have her play support.

Yea and the thing is after BoP. I hope she gets another chance with batgirls