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Birds of Prey #6 – Review

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Javier Pina (artist), June Chung (colorist) The Story: Just when you think you know a guy, he turns out to be a secret killer agent. The Review: Some would argue that the real measure of a great superhero is a great supervillain, and that seems pretty true.  You can’t really think [...]

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Birds of Prey #5 – Review

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Jesus Saiz (penciller), Javier Pina (inker), June Chung (colorist) The Story: I don’t suppose anyone thought to write down what we were doing on a Post-It? The Review: The best part about a title that features a group of solely women is for once you get (when executed properly) the kind [...]

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Birds of Prey #4 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Jesus Saiz (artist), June Chung (colorist) The Story: I’m telling you—the 19th floor exists!  It does! The Review: After reading through this issue, it occurred to me that comics have conditioned us to expect supervillains in these kinds of stories, by which I mean crazy wackos with weird costumes, terrible codenames, [...]

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Birds of Prey #3 – Review

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Jesus Saiz (artist), June Chung (colorist) The Story: The Birds discover the joys of flower power. The Review: Like many Batman villains, Poison Ivy has become more complicated over the years, starting off as one of your typical deranged Gothamites and growing into an eco-terrorist of the first degree.  In the [...]

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Birds of Prey #2 – Review

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Jesus Saiz (artist), Allen Passalaqua (colorist) The Story: Don’t you have days where you feel you might explode? The Review: One of the great things about this series is the fact that it not only serves as a great vehicle for showcasing strong female characters, it actually surpasses that function.  If [...]

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Birds of Prey #15 – Review

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Marc Andreyko (writer), Billy Tucci & Adriana Melo (pencillers), JP Mayer & Eber Ferreira (inkers), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: They just can’t get him out of their heads. The Review: Simone brings such a strong, distinctive voice to her writing, and such a high level of craft, that you find it hard to [...]

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Birds of Prey #14 – Review

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Marc Andreyko (writer), Billy Tucci & Adriana Melo (pencillers), Billy Tucci & JP Mayer (inker), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: These dames aren’t here to mess around—they’re out to kick Nazi butt! The Review: One of DC’s greatest strengths is its long, incredible history, especially its rich beginnings.  Once you add up all the [...]

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Birds of Prey #13 – Review

Posted on June 11, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Diego Olmos (artist), Nei Ruffino (colors), Carlos M. Mangual (letters) The Story: Huntress and the Question race to the rescue while Dove and Black Canary try to survive their encounter with Junior. What’s Good: Where have concentrated doses of the phenomenal Huntress/Question dynamic been all my life? These two are fantastic [...]

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Birds of Prey #12 – Review

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Gail Simone (writer), Jesus Saiz (artist), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: The Birds tackle their latest mission, Charlie’s Angels style. The Review: Ever since this title relaunched, it’s been hassled by the distractions of Brightest Day, and though good stories have come out of it, none have really captured the magic from Simone’s original [...]

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Birds of Prey #11 – Review

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Gail Simone (writer), Pere Perez (artist), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: When Catman threatens to throw a man off a building, don’t take it too seriously— it’s just foreplay. The Review: Simone has pretty much made a career in comics crafting characters that always get personally invested in their vendettas.  Unlike the vast canon [...]

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Birds of Prey #9 – Review

Posted on February 12, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Inaki Miranda (art), Nei Ruffino (colors), Dave Sharp (letters) The Story: Batman and Oracle race to save the mind of Black Canary (still suffering from Mortis’ touch from last issue), while the rest of the Birds work to escape from the big bad’s headquarters (…in a school bus. That, I did [...]

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Birds of Prey #8 – Review

Posted on January 18, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Guillem March (artist), Nei Ruffino (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Canary, Dove and Blackhawk work–rather unsuccessfully–to fight off Mortis, who has been hired by Calculator to find and destroy Oracle. Elsewhere, Barbara and (Bruce’s) Batman work to put a plan into motion…a plan that quickly begins to fall apart as [...]

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Birds of Prey #7 – Review

Posted on December 18, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Ardian Syaf (pencils), Vincente Cifuentes (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Bruce and Oracle have a discussion regarding the Birds and their future as a part of Batman Inc. (after some nifty ass-kicking of street thugs on both their parts.) Barbara also discusses the “death” of Oracle. [...]

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Birds of Prey #6 – Review

Posted on November 11, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Alvin Lee and Adriana Melo (pencils), Jack Purcell and JP Mayer (inks), Nei Ruffino (letters) The Story: Black Canary is forced to issue a challenge to Shiva, a fight Dinah is almost certain she won’t be able to survive. This crisis is replaced by another equally vexing one when Huntress steps [...]

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Birds of Prey #5 – Review

Posted on September 15, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Alvin Lee and Adriana Melo (pencils), Jack Purell and J.P. Mayer (inks) Nei Ruffino (colors) and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: The story picks up exactly where the last storyline left off, and so we find Oracle still dealing with Savant and Creole, Black Canary taking care of the aftermath of [...]

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Birds of Prey #4 – Review

Posted on August 13, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Ed Benes and Adriana Melo (pencils), Ed Benes and J.P. Mayer (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors) and Steve Wands(letters) The Story: White Canary continues to torment the Birds, so Black Canary sets out to destroy her hold over them once and for all. Meanwhile, Barbara is forced to focus on an even [...]

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Birds of Prey #3 – Review

Posted on July 14, 2010 by paladinking

by Gail Simone (writer), Ed Benes (pencils & inks), Adriana Melo (pencils), Mariah Benes (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: The Birds find themselves under siege as White Canary’s deadline looms. What’s Good: I’ve enjoyed the Penguin’s presence throughout this arc and I loved his role this month more than ever. [...]

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Birds of Prey #1 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Ed Benes (artist), Neil Ruffino (colors), Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Oracle calls the Birds of Prey (and a few non-members) together when she receives files detailing all of the heroes’ personal information—secret identities, home addresses, families and friends. The team must work to discover who has this information, and prevent [...]

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