Birds of Prey

Aussiemandias wrote:Issue #2 showed up a week late at my comic shop so only just read this.

I've just got to say - how well does Ed Benes draw action sequences! That whole fight scene was great. Not that it's a big deal but I really think Dinah (or her writers more appropriately) underutilises her sonic scream in fights. In this situation she gave us the sense that they were in a bit of trouble in this fight so I would think the best idea would be just to end it quickly with a sonic scream. Anyway, that would have robbed us of Benes's great fight sequence so there you go.

So there's that great work by Benes to start with then we get this jarring transition to Melo in the middle of the book. I've seen Melo's work before look really great so I'm suspecting this is a bit of a rush job. Disappointing for the second issue as Loosecannon says above.

It totally cracked me up when Dove tells Penguin she's got him and he's staring right at her boobs with a grin on his face! That was a very funny moment.

Overall I have to say this is a fantastic start to this book. Simone's just dropped us right in the middle of an action packed story.

Dr. Wade Fucking McNasty wrote:I read this later on as well. I agree with everything, I LOVE Benes's art (if for anything, the wonderful cheesecake), but one thing was bothering me: Since when did the comic start taking place in the Marvel Universe? I thought denizens of DC loved their heroes. Suddenly they hate on them and trash them on TV? What is this I don't even.

Dr. Wade Fucking McNasty wrote:one thing was bothering me: Since when did the comic start taking place in the Marvel Universe? I thought denizens of DC loved their heroes. Suddenly they hate on them and trash them on TV? What is this I don't even.

rwe1138 wrote:#3 was good. Nice to see last issue's presumed deceased not so deceased.

jaydee74 wrote:I gotta say I'm curious to see where this series is going. The team is in a lot of trouble.

Spazzy wrote:naughty penguin

Batman25JM wrote:^The White Canary reveal wasn't jaw dropping or anything, but I liked it. I was expecting it to be an established character.

For some reason, I saw the Penguin thing coming. It didn't surprise me.

jaydee74 wrote:I thought this latest issue was great. I have to be honest though that the White Canary reveal did nothing for me. The issue did enough to get me to know who she was but for me it wasn't like jaw-dropping revelation for me but that was just me. I was more surprised with the Penguin swerve. The ending had me on the edge of my seat and I simply cannot wait for the next issue. Gail Simone writes the hell out of this book and these characters and it's just full of awesome.

Aussiemandias wrote:

jaydee74 wrote:I thought this latest issue was great. I have to be honest though that the White Canary reveal did nothing for me. The issue did enough to get me to know who she was but for me it wasn't like jaw-dropping revelation for me but that was just me. I was more surprised with the Penguin swerve. The ending had me on the edge of my seat and I simply cannot wait for the next issue. Gail Simone writes the hell out of this book and these characters and it's just full of awesome.

I also loved Dove's decking of Penguin. Bam! Right on the nose! Heh. I'm actually starting to quite like Dove both here and over at Brightest Day.

Got to also give mention to Ed Benes's work here. He is really killing it on the action sequences - I think they've been really dynamic. Adriana Melo is a bit of a disappointment as I recall his work looking a hell of a lot better when he worked on Ms Marvel.