My general thought process during this volume was something like "meh, whatever".

This series got a little better in the second volume, though, overall, it remains very, very average. And this volume kinda went all "Captain Planet", which felt a little awkward to me.My biggest complaint is that the characters have no depth. And so it feels strange when we are forced to learn their back stories. Kinda like being given an answer to a question you didn't ask. I would much prefer to be intrigued by their personalities, their quirks, behaviours and dynamic in the group first; buil...

The reason Vol 2 is better than Vol 1 is because Poison Ivy takes over for awhile. This New 52 version of the Birds of Prey is making me feel like I really don't like Black Canary, which is a real shame because I've seen some sort of cartoon with her in it and I remember wanting to know more about her. Overall we have another cliffhanger ending that I was more annoyed with then I felt anything else. I don't know what's up with this team, I don't know if it's the writing or they aren't getting to...

Very interesting. RIP Poison Ivy. Starling's working for Amanda Waller?! Black Canary's husband is alive?!

Like always, the art come first. Jesus Saiz picks right up in this volume churning out the same horrendous art that he produced for volume 1. Nothing about his art is appealing in the slightest. Travel Foreman picks up arts duties in the Night of the Owls crossover story. The art in that issue blows Saiz's art out of the water. Character faces look pretty decent and there is much more detail than in the art Saiz drew. A couple issues into Foreman's run, Timothy Green II has co-artist duty for an...

Didn’t enjoy this one as much as the first volume. It’s very choppy mostly due to tie-ins and storylines possibly getting resolved in other books. I don’t know. Then the last book is a big flashback. It just didn’t flow well at all.

⭐️⭐️- ⭐️⭐️⭐️Contains spoilers for Volume 1.Volume 2 is everything Volume 1 wasn’t- it’s a messy compilation of shorter adventures that misses the big picture.One of the biggest mistakes in comic book narration is faulty coherence. Volume 1 set up a fast-paced adventure. It ended with a cliffhanger. Naturally, the readers expect their questions to be answered in the next volume. That’s just logical.Instead, we got Volume 2. Several shorter adventures are combined to expand the characters’ backgro...

This volume shows even less of the characters than its predecessor. It's just a mix of different events that take place over the course of a year that ends with a plot twist I probably would've cared about if there had been more time for character build-up and development. I can't even tell how all events are connected (especially with the things that happened in the previous volume). Maybe the story really is as incoherent as I think it is but probably I just don't care enough to bother underst...

Meh. I enjoyed the first volume enough that I think I'll get myself a copy to own. However, this mishmash of bad art and incoherent storytelling is not coming home from the comic store with me and I'm going to return my library copy asap so it doesn't give my other books bad ideas.

I really, really wanted to like Birds of Prey: Your Kiss Might Kill. I like DC. I love Black Canary, Poison Ivy, and Starling. But I wish that their stories were actually good. I think Duane Swierczynski is a really great author. I’ve read a few of his novels and they were super high throttle packed with tons of action and I loved them. I expected that from Birds of Prey and was sorely disappointed.First things first, the chapters do not flow together nicely. I expect for there to be jumps from

Birds of Prey Volume 1 got off to a strong start, but volume 2 seriously faltered. The most troubling part was continuity, but the stories also felt disconnected.Volume 2 jumps all over the place in the timeline and two distinct sections both take place “now” with the same characters in different locations! The team faces Talon in Gotham “now”, but pulls Poison Ivy from the freezer truck “two days ago” (which should have happened after the battle with Talon since it is also in the truck), this f...

This is a bit of a step down from the rapid-fire, joyful first volume. The Birds' enemies and goals become much more ill-defined (thanks in no small part to derailment by the Night of the Owls crossover event), setting up what seems to be a murder mystery about Black Canary that just kind of peters out and disappears. Instead, we're left with the Birds having to combat Poison Ivy, a member of their own team, thereby partially destroying a dynamic that was making this book work in the first place...

This was OK, maybe even 3-stars worth of spandex-clad action, but there were three glaring problems that brought the fun skidding to a halt for me:-- The New-52-fueled "Dinah's dangerous backstory" with some crime she is accused of, and now admits to, and may not have happened or he's getting fixed up by Amanda Waller (where does she find the time to run all these secret projects? Frankly, I liked the previous, nearly villainous, non-svelte Amanda Waller better. And I DIDN'T like her!)-- Poison

Birds of Prey: Your Kiss Might Kill picks up where the previous volume left off, collecting the next five issues (Birds of Prey #8–12) of the 2011 on-going series with the Zero-Month tie-in Birds of Prey #0 and collects six interconnecting one-issue stories.Black Canary's past comes back to haunt her when she's tracked down by government agents for the murder of her husband, which she admits to having committed. The Birds of Prey are attacked by a group trying to take her in led by Infiltrator,

This review can also be seen at http://www.addicted2heroines.com/2013...If you're looking for a comic with a female dominated cast, then Birds of Prey is the obvious choice when trolling through DC's New 52 lineup. I had high expectations for this one after reading the first volume, Trouble in Mind. Did this volume live up to those expectations?No. Not really.But it wasn't awful, and I've recently come to appreciate that when dealing with DC's reboot effort.So.Black Canary has gathered a group o...

(B) 73% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: A schlocky series of splinter stories and sour, slapdash sundry. It’s fruitless fodder: illustrative of its own irrelevance.

DC’s release dates for its mass-market collections are stupid. Between the hardcover special releases and some bizarre need to spread releases out, it’s been eight months since I reviewed Volume 1 and fourteen months since the first issue in Volume 2, issue #8, was printed. This obviously isn’t a problem for people who are just collecting the issues, but DC seems pretty intent on screwing its MMP base, particularly those of us who are fans of Batwoman. Now, part of this delay is because I’m STIL...

Despite being all over the place, this was still a good trade. Great characters. Some intrigue. A holier than thou cameo from Bats. This trade has a lot going for it, but the focus isn't as tight as the first few issues. A whole lot of random shit goes down and by the end, I really wasn't sure what the hell had happened, other than Poison Ivy is one crazy, hot, salad lady. I respect the artistic team in this book; Travel Foreman is a very talented artist, and Swierczynski writes full throttle ac...

Rep: Japanese side characterless confusing than i remember it being but what tf happened to the choke storyline???

This was okay. Alot of the New 52 books are okay. It starts pretty much midway through a fight where some men are after Dinah. The group tries to stop them, a Talon joins the fight and all hell breaks loose. They have to freeze it to stop it and Ivy seemingly takes herself down with it to "save" the others. I don't like the idea that she was out for herself the whole time. She's dying and wants the others to help with her environmental terrorism bucket list, essentially and that just sucks. It g...