Damn you, Gail Simone!!  I was ready to drop this book after a 3 issue trial.  Like I’ve said before…it was good but not great.  Well, it just got really, really good.  I’m into the story now and dying to find out who the White Canary is.

Great job on the art by Benes and Melo, too.  Benes was basically born to draw sexy, tough women and thus he was destined to be the artist for Birds of Prey.  Simone, super-nice person that she is (my wife and Ms. Simone had a lengthy discussion about their hairstyles at a con once) excels at writing mean characters like Hawk and the villains in this book.  I’m on for at least a few more issues and we’ll see what happens after this first arc is done.  By the way…14 Benes ass-shots in this issue alone….not that I’m complaining.