A new villain team, fashioned specifically to take out the Birds of Prey, has emergedin dramatic fashion. And with the Birds deliberately scattered across the globeinvestigating both real and false leads, they’re more vulnerable than ever. With thestrongest of them already fallen, how can any of them survive what’s coming?
Its kind of weird to think of all the different formats there have been for superhero team script formats over the years. What Thompson is doing with her run on Birds of Prey seems like a natural outgrowth of the evolution of the concept of characters in the field being aided by Barbara in a command center as everything goes to hell. Thompson has really increased the complexity with a variet of different characters rolling into an interesting, textured dynamic which feels like something completely new even though shes dealing with characters who have been around in one format or another for decades. Read Full Review
From the tension between Oracle and Black Canary to the uneasy bonding between Cass and sin, this crisis is bringing out both the best and the worst in the team but nothing prepared me for the reveal of exactly what the villains needed Barda for. The stakes are sky-high in this arc, and that makes it one of the most entertaining arcs yet. Read Full Review
Birds of Prey #21 does exactly what it needs to do to set-up the tension that the rest of this story arc will have. That is done as Kelly Thompson writing is handled in a way where the dialogue is enhancing Sami Basri's artwork. Read Full Review
Birds of Prey #21 is another good issue that's in running for best of this series. Thompson finally seems to have found the sweet spot for what a Birds of Prey story should be. Banter between Dinah and Babs finally sounds right and Barda is the best she's been so far. Thompson can't stay away from things that don't work like Megaera and her unnecessarily large cast, but those aspects play a much smaller role in this issue. Read Full Review
I wouldn't recommend this series to anyone that isn't already invested. If you're still following then you're probably enjoying what's going on but I wonder if anyone is actually going crazy over this series?Score: 5.5/10 Read Full Review
An okay issue. Nothing impressed me, except the ending, which was a little surprising. I mean, I wasn't surprised to see Barda get captured (last issue foreshadowed as much), but the ending still managed to surprise me.
Still wasting my time....
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