All I can say is that Julie Benson is no Gail Simone, and this cheese ball, girl power, woo hoo graphic novel is Exhibit A.

3.5 stars. A nice finale to the series. I really enjoyed the entire run of this iteration of Birds of Prey. It an overall fun and engaging storyline with a lot of my favorite characters.This particular installment featured a storyline about a flu that comes to Gotham, quickly spreads, hospitals are full, overflow patients have to go to the stadium, Gotham goes on lockdown, should people from different sides team up to stop the spread of this flu? Should they make a vaccine? Oh, and the flu is on...

Basic Plot: First the Birds of Prey have to save the men of Gotham City from the Daughters of Gotham, then they take on Calculator one more time.This volume was the end of the writer's stint with the Birds and it wrapped things up neatly. There were loose ends tied up and closure given to characters. Overall, the stories were very solid and I enjoyed the art. I was saddened by character deaths. The first story with the Daughters of Gotham was really awesome, bringing in lots of female characters...

Batgirl and the Birds of Prey: Full Circle picks up where the previous volume left off, collecting the last nine issues (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #14–22) of the 2016 on-going series and collects four stories: "Gotham City Limits", "Manslaughter", "Eco-Deadly", and "Full Circle"."Manslaughter" is a two-issue story (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #15–16) and a finale (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey #17) has the Bird of Prey taking on a mysterious contagion that made every male in Gotham City si...

Short On IdeasThis was pretty bleh to me. Most of the stories fell flat, with the absolute worst being about the men of Gotham falling ill in a purposeful plague. Who would want to kill all the men? If you guessed evil man-hating feminists, you win the prize of an unoriginal plotline. Just once, I'd like the person trying to wipe out men to have a different motivation. Like a dude trying to get rid of the so-called Chads of the world so he has a shot at a girlfriend. I would love to read that! B...

Wow. Equality is achieved at last. Finally someone is brave enough to refer to a murderous robot that has no identifying physical female characteristics using girly pronouns. Feminism is dead, and SJW crap like this killed it.

This Rebirth launched title ends on a high note. A very long Volume, but contains the following stories:- A one-shot involving students, colonial dresses, and an urban-legend-turned-real encounter with Deacon Blackfire- The Daughters of Gotham release a virus that attacks only men, so the Birds of Prey band together with other DC ladies and take the fight to them. Batgirl, Huntress, Black Canary, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, Batwoman, Harley Quinn, Orphan, Spoiler, Gotham Girl, and Wonder Woman... amaz...

Much of this book was fantastic, particularly the "Full Circle" arc with which it culminates and which provided the volume's title. The first story in here gives us a truly impressive and formidable team of Gotham ladies plus Wonder Woman dealing the a reasonably large scale threat. Unfortunately, those the were the best parts as the story itself underwhelmed a bit. The villains turn out to be a cadre of Gotham women who set to destroy all men. Ummmm....it just...I don't know the Birds deserve b...

3.5 stars.

The Birds of Prey expand here until this almost a Brave and the Bold spinoff: we have Poison Ivy, Harley, Catwoman, Wonder Woman and during the Patient Zero plotline several more women. The heroes deal with a man-killing virus, their old foes the Calculator and Black Bird and Huntress' conniving mother. I couldn't get into this as much as V2 — it felt cluttered, though I"m not sure if that's the arc, the sheer number of word balloons or what. Not really bad, but it didn't grip me.

We’ve got 2 arcs here and a one-shot in-between.The first arc sees the Birds of Prey teaming up with a whole bunch of female heroes (and a couple of anti-heroes). All the Gotham ladies, Lois Lane and Wonder Woman? Give me more! I loved seeing them together and honestly never wanted it to end. I would love, love, love to read more comics with all female/ trans/ non-binary heroes.The actual story was okay but I was confused by its message. Essentially it’s about feminists fighting misandrists in a...

A lackluster ending to a decent start. So first arc is about a man-killing disease that is hurting all the men in Gotham so all the women, both villains and heroes, team up to stop the people who have created this disease. The 2nd arc wraps up the big twist in the first volume, I won't spoil it, but it basically closes up loose ends and a bitter farewell to the series. Good: Some of the dialogue is fun. I enjoyed seeing all the women team up and kick some butt for sure and the very very end is n...

Oh my gosh. This may have been one of the worst graphic novels/comics I've read. The first two volumes were good, but this was just all around no good. Here, let me give you a rundown in case you don't believe me. 1) The dialog is awful. I haven't seen this much of characters stating the obvious/describing what's clearly going on in a panel by talking to themselves since the '60s comics. "Bast's goons are firing on us from behind!" "We're under attack!" 2) There's a scene where a bunch of thugs

Some short filler stories sandwiched between two longer arcs. The first being about a virus that only makes men sick so the women of the DCU all pitch into help. My one bugaboo about it was that Harley Quinn was way out of her current continuity, back to pining over her "puddin". Then the Bensons wrap up the series with the Calculator's return along with some other reoccurring villains from the series. Plus, a robot named Burndown that they kept referring to as "she" even though it was just an A...

wow.... this was a fun run!first: the reason i didn't give this volume 5 stars like 1 & 2. manslaughter. i did not like it. the concept of man-hating feminists vs the "good" feminists who like men in their lives is so old and DONE.i adored the huge all-girl team up, though - and i appreciated the small comment at the end where renee and batwoman mentioned that the daughters hurt trans women as well as cis men.but... i don't think the comment was specific enough, it seemed really vague and if i w...

[Read as single issues]After the stresses of the previous volume, it’s time for a field trip. But Deacon Blackfire has other plans for the Birds Of Prey! Then, a deadly plague targets the men of Gotham City and it’s up to the Birds and their allies to find a cure before it’s too late, before the series concludes with a three-way supervillain team-up between Calculator, Blackbird, and Fenice that will change the Birds Of Prey forever!We open with the Field Trip one-shot, which pits the girls agai...

My favorite super-hero graphic novel series continues. I really wish this was a TV series Sure Black Canary and Huntress already appeared on Arrow and are very different from these version, but even an animated series would be awesome. The art is beautiful, the characters badass. It's a real girl-power series.

The best in the series is also the last. 3.5 stars.World: The art is good, but it doesn't get amazing until Antonio comes back on the book, when it's Roge's art, it's beautiful, it's emotive, it's what I want this book to look like. The world building here is full circle because this is the end of Benson's run and like all writers in the modern era, when their time comes they pull all the pieces they created and do something with it. But that's not the only thing that is great about the world bu...

5 🌟The Birds of Prey deal with a virus that is making the men of Gotham sick. They also deal with the Calculator again.

I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying this series. (I haven't seen a volume 4 come out yet, so I'm hoping its continuing.) This book had a nice balance of "fun" and "serious" stories. The fun ones: The issue where Huntress and Black Canary take some students camping and end up awakening an evil spirit--and meanwhile, Batgirl goes on patrol solo, missing her buds. The Paris one was also a pretty fun one-shot. I mean, it's the Birds of Prey in Paris... what's not to love? My favorite story, thoug...