This comic has quite a few glaring flaws - in its artistic freedom and story department - which I'm sure have nothing to do with me not having read any other 'Birds of Prey' works beforehand. But by the screaming canaries was the volume a lot of fun to read. Fast-paced action, great characters who’re each given panel time - and for some even whole chapters - to develop, a dark tone, and progressions and twists to the plot that are well balanced and flow evenly.As it turns out, Gail Simone can wr...

Birds of Prey gets a slight reboot to tie into Brightest Day. Now Hawk & Dove are on the team even though they don't bring much to the book. It feels almost like Simone was forced to add them. Anyway, it didn't lessen my enjoyment of the book any. The regular cast of female vigilantes are all there: Black Canary, Oracle, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk. Even Savant and Creote return with their messed up relationship where even though one is a savant only Creote realizes they are a couple. The book is p...

Gail Simone writes a kick ass Birds of Prey story. This may, in fact, be my favorite Birds of Prey story ever. The writing is tight and the girls are in top form -- both in terms of fighting and having well rounded personalities. It also sees the return of two of my favorite BOP side characters, Savant and Creote, who are AWESOME in this story. Savant in particular has some awesome stuff in here and finally Creote confesses his feelings (ftw). Bringing this huge sweeping story back down with the...

It's not the best of the Birds of Prey run; the presence of Hawk & Dove don't really add much to the dynamics, but Black Canary and Huntress and Zinda all are on their stride. The villain, White Canary, is a callback to a previous series, but she doesn't stand out as a prominent antagonist. The art is a bit on the cheesecake side, but the saturated colors are beautiful. The relationships between Huntress and Oracle and Black Canary are pretty strong, although Oracle doesn't have nearly enough to...

This book collects the first six issues of Gail Simone's run on Birds of Prey and I think I only actually enjoyed the two last ones. It's my fault, as I approached this series expecting some female-led heroism, forgetting that these stories target are usually males who only want to see hot chicks kicking asses in impossible ways. Unfortunately, the plot doesn't help much: there are some good ideas, but they get far too many pages. Everything feels too long, to boring. I'll try to read some of th...

Bullet Review:You know that stereotype that all comic books/graphic novels are is just soft-core porn? A bunch of scantily-clad women in suggestive poses?Yeah, this book doesn't defy that stereotype one bit. The characters are great, from Black Canary to Blackhawk to Huntress to Oracle to Dove, each unique and special in her own way (or in Hawk's case, his own way). They are unique women, different and outstanding and defying stereotypical feminine stereotypes (meek, timid, shy - only Dove is so...

This wouldn't make a lick of sense to someone who hadn't read Simone's previous run. It's a nice continuation, but doesn't have the heft that something more original would.

Gail Simone, and the title, returned after a bief hiatus, and it almost seems as if Simone felt that she had a mandate to ramp up the action scenes and to leave behind the personal interaction that highlights her best writing.Yes, the action goes at the pace of Quentin Taratino, and much of it, until the final two chapters, feels and seems senseless. Story wise things pick up a little bit with the TPBs last couple of chapters.Because we begin to get the character work at which Simone is so good....

CAUTION: This book is not meant to be taken seriously. At least, I don't think it is. It's pretty much laughing at itself as it goes. Either that, or it falls into the category of pompous books that think cheese is wine.So the White Canary is back and mysteriously gets hold of everybody's data. By that, I mean she knows what brand of toothpaste Bruce Wayne uses on Tuesdays.Well, it's not so mysterious how she got it. She tortured poor Savant into giving it and I guess Creote was just watching fr...

This isn't the best of the Birds that Simone wrote or that Benes drew, but it's still a pretty fine comic. It's the first of a rebooted sequence, and the girls seem a little unsure about some of their chronology. (I know I was confused.) Once things start happening and Dinah gets her game on I stopped worrying about it and just went with the story. Zinda Blake, Lady Blackhawk, has joined Oracle, Huntress, and Canary, and is a delightful addition to the crew. Hawk and Dove are there, too, with le...

Gail Simone's Birds of Prey is the only comic ever.

Birds of Prey is a superhero team featured in DC Comics, usually lead by Barbara Gordon as Oracle and consist of mainly female superheroes. Birds of Prey: End Run collects the first six issues of the 2010 series with two interconnected storylines: "End Run" and "Two Nights in Bangkok"."End Run" is a four-issue storyline (Birds of Prey #1–4) that has the Birds of Prey: Black Canary, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk led by Oracle and supported by Dove and Hawk, and most surprisingly the criminal Penguin a...

I can sum up this re-launch of the BoP series in three words: DAMN IT, BENES! Gail Simone isn't in her top form here, but I'd rather read average Simone than anything by most other writers in comics today. Sadly, Ed Benes' art just torpedoes the entire trade. There's page after page of his over-sexualized, nearly-identical women with as many gratuitous butt-shots as he can manage. The art totally undermines Simone's portrayal of the Birds as strong, competent women with vibrant personalities. Si...

Loved this.

You forget how good a writer Gail Simone is, and then you read the latest Birds of Prey. There are character moments, twists, shocks and emotional involvements in this volume. Birds of Prey is back, as good as it ever was.

This was my first real exposure to Birds of Prey. Boy, was that ever a mistake. For the most part, I felt lost. So much backstory goes into this plot that I spend more than half the time going, "Wait, when did that happen?" It seemed fairly well-written, and I think it's true to the characters as I understand them from other books. The art itself is pretty unremarkable. I picked it up because the cover billed it as tying into Brightest Day. Um, it doesn't. But the good thing about that is that i...

This run doesn't have quite the same vibe as the last one. Aside from it lacking the look of the classic run, the line up felt a bit different. This team was made up of Oracle, Huntress, Black Canary, Lady Blackhawk and they're joined by Hawk and Dove. The plot felt a little scattered to me but I must admit, during the first part of this volume, I was extremely distracted by the art. The old run had some sexualized art but nothing too too bad. This had some impossible angles, a ton of ass shots

guys! did you know dc has this character named zinda who's a wwii fighter pilot who somehow ended up in the present day? all i want is for christmas is a dc/marvel crossover where she hangs out with captain america, like just give me that and we're golden(i don't actually celebrate christmas but that's no reason to get in the way of a good sentence)anyways i think i'm going to have to peace out of dc comics now. this volume pretty much maxed out my tolerance for the male gaze, if i never see ano...

I hate that I'm kind of in a rut right now, because I want to love all of these heroine-led titles, but they just aren't clicking.I love the concept of Birds of Prey - I love all of the women in the group and I'm super interested in checking out their other titles. Here, however, it feels like everything is being thrown at the wall like something might stick.Simone has spoken out against the oversexualization of female characters, but that's very prominent in the art here. I was also set off by

Damn, these 'Birds' are badass women - there's A LOT of knock-down, drag-out action in End Run. Of course, I don't pass up an opportunity to read ANYTHING featuring my DC fave Black Canary. But sometimes it was the quieter moments that really made the volume shine. An injured Penguin's hallucination (or was it a daydream?) was amusing in its sudden appearance. Lady Blackhawk and her continual 'can-do' gumption never gets old or cloying. Then there was a late scene where a character knelt down an...