Gail Simone is one of the best reasons to read comics. Her current run on Batgirl is terrific and her Birds of Prey work is also a delight to read. Female characters! With personalities! Who don't need to be rescued! But are maybe flawed in interesting and meaningful ways besides "sooo klutzy!" and "insecure even though she is, like, really pretty you guys!!!" I also like the artwork, particularly the fact that Dinah is always drawn like a brick shithouse who could take you apart with her bare h...

Birds of Prey: Between Dark and Dawn collects the next seven issues (Birds of Prey #69–75) of the 2003 on-going series and covers three stories: "Between Dark and Dawn", "Unraveled", and "Breathless and There Would Be No Spring"."Between Dark and Dawn" is a five-issue storyline (Birds of Prey #69–73) has the Birds of Prey begin by investigating the seemingly connected suicides of three teenagers, all with rich parents, and all killing themselves in the costumes of already dead superheroes. The c...

Between Dark and Dawn is the third volume of Gail Simone's run on Birds of Prey, continuing the character develop of the main three characters, Oracle, (Barbara Gordan), the Black Canary (Dinah), and Huntress (Helena). Teenagers, dressed as super heroes, have been committing suicide. The information trail leads Oracle to send Huntress into rural Oregon to investigate a cult that worships superheros as gods. The plot becomes a little muddled: the leader of the cult has mind control powers, has ca...

Nice solid effort again from writer Gail Simone and crew. But only because I enjoy the Babs-Dinah-Helena interaction. Pus, Zinda was introduced in this volume. The Cult and Brainiac portions of the story were average at best.

"I just have to put my face on." - Helena 'Huntress' Bertinelli"I wonder what that's supposed to mean?" - Barbara 'Oracle' Gordon"With Huntress, I always figure it means someone's gonna get a pounding. I'm maintaining a 98% accuracy rating with that system, I'd estimate." - Dinah 'Black Canary' LanceThe poundings and much more continue in Vol. 5: Between Dark & Dawn. This time Oracle sends Huntress incognito to infiltrate a cult compound - three former teen members had just committed suicide in

Another enjoyable volume!I really liked seeing Vixen! She's a character I find very intriguing but I haven't seen her in a lot of other books I've read. It was interesting seeing her work alongside Helena who's, pretty much always, really prickly. I had a few issues with the way Helena was presented in the Nightwing series that was coming out around this time because it seemed the pattern was that Helena was too cocky about her methods/skills, messed up and then refused to take any criticism. I

I love me some Birds of Prey and all, but it annoyed me that there's a huge gap in the middle of this book where War Games takes place. So much happens during that story line, yet all we get in this book is "the clocktower sploded let's move on with our lives." Also, War Games kind of annoys me, so I like to pretend it never happened.

The adventure continues and deepens in Gail Simone's run of Birds of Prey. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

okay, this one was my favorite so far. helena! gets to totally kick ass!! plus all the stuff with babs, and savant, and the dinah/babs love . . . really fantastic. highly recommend. especially because of all the snarky-stuff about batman and his huge dark ego. oh, i love it. i love how batman is the butt of all jokes, even though they all agree he rules gotham. oh, batman. it's also really hot when dinah and helena dress up as penguin and riddler for the "conference". hahahah. though i still lik...

Huntress goes undercover with a cult that is brainwashing teenagers, causing them to dress as dead superheroes and then commit suicide. Vixen is along for the ride too. The whole cult thing gets really out there with their beliefs. Then as part of the Batman:War Games event, the clock tower gets blown up without really explaining why in this volume. And Lady Blackhawk joins the team at the end. Yay.The art in this book is still way oversexualized.

This was a solid read though I had a few issues. We finally get a more interesting storyline for Huntress. When she has to go undercover for Barbara and try to find out why kids are dressing themselves as superheroes before killing themselves we get a pretty solid storyline. This is also a volume filled with a self-doubting Babs and almost becomes something very evil. Then the watchtower gets blown up but we don't really know why, must be in a batman book. Then we tie up some more stuff of previ...

This book just didn't have the spirit of the previous volumes, except the Lady Blackhawk story at the end.

Very well-written comic here. I have always appreciated Gail Simone, and she did not disappoint with this installment of BoP. I love seeing the whole trio of Oracle, Black Canary, and Huntress working together. They make a hell of a team, especially in Simone's writing.

This is the fifth collection of the Birds of Prey comic. It is the third one written by Gail Simone. I've loved the two collections before this one, but this one seemed a little off to me.[return][return]For one thing, the action seemed rushed. In the last two books, the relationships between the characters developed slowly. The action was well thought out and really hooked me in. In this book, a new character, Vixen, is introduced... but I never really felt like I got to know who she was. She w...

Fantastic all around. The writing is top notch and the art is lovely. Birds of Prey comics are always something I enjoy, but Gail Simone's characterization is what makes Birds my absolute favourite comic series. Each character has their own unique personality and something special they bring to the team in terms of skills, as well as through social interactions. The relationship between Canary and Oracle is different from Oracle and Huntress, and is different from Huntress and Canary. And readin...

I didn't like this trade quite as much as the one before it. I wasn't terribly interested in the cult storyline, and I didn't feel like Vixen was used quite as well as she could have been. That said, I am interested to see what will happen next, and I still like the way Simone writes her main characters.

I love the Birds of Prey: Between Dark & Dawn collection because I feel like that when it really hits home that the Birds of Prey are a family. The dynamics and the relations between the characters feel realistic and like a real family. Oracle brings in Huntress and Black Canary. Both of them are troubled when they join the team. The arc doesn’t cover Black Canary’s story since that happened earlier, but her connection to Oracle is already strong. Meanwhile, Huntress struggles to work in the fie...

Q: So what exactly happened to Oracle ?A: I really do not know. Q: Aaaaaaand what happen to her hideout ?A: I do not know but I've been told It is well documented in some batman book. But except for that this is pretty decent book. A lot of stuff happening Huntress finally kicks some ass together with Black Canary and obviously we are getting new character which is always exciting. I guess you would like it if you are reading already the whole series but this is definitely not the good starting

I always enjoy Simone’s writing. Better yet, I caught sight of flat heeled boots much more than high heels. I’ll let Vixen’s heels slide- she wears stilettos for a living so she knows how to pick a comfy heel.

Great story, so much to unpack, but seriously hindered by the sexist art.