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[poroto678]

- Huntress - Black Canary: Gail Simone's Birds of Prey.
- Spoiler: Cooler as Batgirl (by Brian Q Miller). I loved it when she was Robin (back in batman: war games), but a lot of people might not agree with me.
- Arrow: First of All, GA Year One by Diggle and Jock. GREEN Arrow vol 3 (Starting with Kevin Smith)... that's when i started and it was a great volume. Green Arrow by Jeff Lemire.
- Flash: Geoff Johns' Flash... there are omnibuses out there.

[zwixxx]

- Spoiler: Cooler as Batgirl (by Brian Q Miller). I loved it when she was Robin (back in batman: war games), but a lot of people might not agree with me.

Issues Robin 126-128 Juy04-Sep04 - I ebayed them a couple of week ago.

[Lee Stone]

Can you link me to the Huntress mini series?

and yeah as for The Flash and Arrow issues, will they be collected in a volume soon? Because I can't stand reading digitally.

and yeah I've heard a few things about the Black Canary series, but the fact that she's in a band puts me off. I mean should it?

And I don't trust anything Gail Simone publishes, Batgirl and Tomb Raider were just bad.

Thank you.

Crossbow at the Crossroads would be the one I'm referring to.
Oddly enough, it was the one of the very few New52 books I did like from the first year.

As for Arrow and Flash, MajorHoy has that info just above me.
Just keep in mind that the print comics that are released each month generally contain about three digital episodes.

And Black Canary just started. It looks good so far but it's definitely not in the vein of traditional comics.
More like the polar opposite of what DC was putting out in 2011.

[Samurai Jack]

If you're interested in reading a single Black Canary story, I would highly recommend Paul Dini's Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell. It's a pretty fun team up book, and doesn't require any previous comic history to follow, and it's also a fairly new book. It came out last year in hardcover, and last month in trade paperback.

[AAXL98]

Spoiler is going to be in issue #42 of Catwoman this week.

Really? Can you link me to that? It sounds so great, I might get that one issue just to see Spoiler haha!

[Tupiaz]

No, I'm looking for the Oliver Queen Version.

The first, most used and wellknown Green Arrow is Oliver Queen.

[AAXL98]

re: No Man's Land - something I cobbled together into a handy(?) A4 size form - the No Man's Land reading order. If you're thinking of getting into the story you might find it helpful

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btw: the Batman: Harley Quinn one-shot thing has been recently reissued at a right cheap price, so no need to eBay and original for silly money like I did - I'm such a dink.

Eh the image isn't very clear, I can't really read what it says sorry haha. But No Man's Land is collected in 4 Volumes right, shouldn't I just read the volumes after each other?

[joybeans]

A very good Helena Bertinelli story is Greg Rucka's "Batman and Huntress: Cry for Blood". It takes a look at her backstory as well as her uneasy relationship with the Bat family.

[AAXL98]

- Huntress - Black Canary: Gail Simone's Birds of Prey.
- Spoiler: Cooler as Batgirl (by Brian Q Miller). I loved it when she was Robin (back in batman: war games), but a lot of people might not agree with me.
- Arrow: First of All, GA Year One by Diggle and Jock. GREEN Arrow vol 3 (Starting with Kevin Smith)... that's when i started and it was a great volume. Green Arrow by Jeff Lemire.
- Flash: Geoff Johns' Flash... there are omnibuses out there.

Can you tell me the names of the Volumes of that Flash run? The omnibuses are WAY overpriced and people commented that it had printing errors.

Thanks for the Green Arrow Year One recommendation, I'll definitely check that out, will Sarah be on the Island with him?

and about Birds of Prey, I'm not really a Gail Simone fan, she always kills my favourite series. i.e Batgirl, Tomb Raider

[AAXL98]

A very good Helena Bertinelli story is Greg Rucka's "Batman and Huntress: Cry for Blood". It takes a look at her backstory as well as her uneasy relationship with the Bat family.

This is great! Thank you so much.

[AAXL98]

Arrow and Flash (the ones based on the TV shows) are in DC's "Digital First" format. That means they're originally released digitally, then shortly after that collected into a regular print comic book format.

For Arrow, there previously had been twelve print issues in 2013. Those have since been collected into two trade paperback collections.


Arrow Volume 1


Arrow Volume 2

Currently, DC is releasing Arrow Season 2.5 (which takes place between Season 2 and Season 3 of the TV show) and issue #10 of the print version will be released here in the U.S. on Wednesday.
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/arrow...w-season-25-10

The Flash TV show has the comic book The Flash: Season Zero. Issue #10 of the print comic book was just released this past Wednesday.

Nice! Do you know if those are worth the read? I'm thinking about pre-ordering Arrow S2.5.

Thanks or the help.

[AAXL98]

Here's the run-down on the Huntress problem: the miniseries was written for Helena Bertinelli. The character speaks like Bertinelli, uses Bertinelli's armor and M.O., and is, for all intents and purposes, Bertinelli. But, about halfway through, it was decided they'd stop using the Bertinelli Huntress and start using the Wayne Huntress. The story still finished as it was supposed to, but then the epilogue has her reveal who she now is, and the first pages of the sequel series involved revealing Bertinelli was dead. The actual miniseries by itself is a competently written and strong stand alone story, it just leaves a bad taste in some people's mouths. I like it, and it seems like an immediately affordable and good story.

Batman: No Man's Land was pretty much the apex of the Batfamily crossovers from the 90s to the 00s. Gotham gets hit by a huge Earthquake, and right in the wake of a biological attack too. Luthor pulls strings from behind the scenes to have Gotham legally removed from the US's territory and basically declared illegal territory. The legal premise is poppycock: people apparently aren't even allowed to leave the city. But the end result is a Mad Max style dystopian setting for Gotham, with the remaining civilians and officials divvying up the city into different fiefs.

Batman and Gordon have issues, so their initial alliance is practically non-existent, while some of Gordon's cops go rogue as their own, more fascistic faction and are allied with Huntress after Batman chew her out. Two Face is the biggest single warlord, but he has some awesome stories. Batman teams up with Ivy to free her and some adopted kids from Clayface in Robinson Park, Nightwing retakes Blackgate penitentiary from Lockup and KGBeast while also upgrading his flirtations with Babs to actual dating, and Cass Cain makes her first appearance and becomes Batgirl.

The endgame of the story ends up being pretty awesome. Two Face gets taken down when he puts Gordon on trial but Harvey Dent is convinced to be defense attorney in a very well written scene. Luthor arrives to use the chaos to increase his LexCorp holdings via hiring Bane for sabotage (one of the better Bane appearances, since he doesn't have to fight Batman and instead makes a deal with him), and to get enough good publicity by getting No Man's Land ended to become President. The former is thwarted by Batman, but the latter succeeds. And Joker, who has been largely neglected by everyone else since he can't get a big enough loyal gang, decides to kidnap every single baby born during No Man's Land.

One of the places Joker comes to last is the rogue cop stronghold where Huntress is. The rogue cop's leader is manipulated into going crazy and killing half his men by Joker, so Huntress has to take him down and defend the entire settlement by herself against heavily armed Joker thugs. She gets shot several times by Joker himself, but she holds the line. Hell yeah.

I won't tell you how Joker's last attack ends because it's...pretty heavy.

Oh damn that sucks... I was looking forward to reading it but I'm not going to, thanks for letting me know.

And I'm excited for No Man's Land, sounds pretty awesome from what I read so far.

[zwixxx]

Eh the image isn't very clear, I can't really read what it says sorry haha. But No Man's Land is collected in 4 Volumes right, shouldn't I just read the volumes after each other?

turns out converting a bmp (which is most clear) into a jpeg (which I've just seen is most unclear) is NOT a good idea, darn it. And the bmp is 4MB so darn it again.
(though if you zoom in the detail is still readable. )
As for the volumes, having the complete reading list would at least allow you to cross of those issues the volumes contain to see if there are any missing ones.

[SkyMason21]

Really? Can you link me to that? It sounds so great, I might get that one issue just to see Spoiler haha!

Here: http://www.dccomics.com/comics/catwo...11/catwoman-42

I've seen two interviews from Valentine and both make it seem like Spoiler will be appearing in Catwoman for a while:http://www.comicosity.com/interview-...with-catwoman/ and http://www.comicbookresources.com/ar...nt-in-catwoman

[zwixxx]

I'm starting reading Catwoman because Spoiler is joining and you might like to start with #41 - even though Spoiler ain't in that one it is the starting issue of the new Catwoman arc.