BIRDS OF PREY #1
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Art and cover by ED BENES
Variant cover by CLIFF CHIANG
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
I never really read Birds Of Prey until I recently undertook the task of reading the entire Modern Age Batman series that was available in trade. And I was quite surprised by how much I liked the title, particularly when written by Gail Simone. She’s a writer who seems to be mostly attached to books I don’t care about, and yet I quite enjoy her writing (if not her four million snarky tweets a day…seriously, how does this woman find time to write comics?).
Well, she has found time, somehow, and she has put out a thoroughly engaging return to the Birds Of Prey. Nothing earth-shattering, but a great read.
Also, this is one of those rare books where the interiors are much more impressive than the cover.
Art: 5 - Excellent
akamuu: This is the second or third time you’ve mentioned reading the entire run of Bat-books (I actually wrote down some of your suggestions based on one of my responses to a review- thanks!). Have you considered posting something somewhere about this? Maybe an entire spoiler-free guide to the Bat-world! I think that would be VERY cool. Maybe the ifanboys could post it in the article section.
I have Birds of Prey in my little stack, but I haven’t gotten to it yet. Looking forward to it.
I am going to put one up on my webpage soonish. I just finished a non-comic manuscript which has eaten up the time that I’d planned on posting the Batstuff. I will definitely find a way to plug it on this site when I’m done. 😉
I’m doing the X-Men now, and I’m in the midst of the titleless era (the years of no X-Men book where they appeared primarily in Avengersand Captain America stories). It’s a bit of a different project because I didn’t do any silver age Bat titles, so I was…unprepared for the walls of text in the Stan Lee/Roy Thomas era. Good stories but…wow…the words….