9/15/2023 0 Comments Birds of prey dc 1![]() ![]() On the island, a man introduces himself as Reed Montel to it's current leader, Jackie "Pajamas" Pamerjanian. Oracle gives Black Canary a mission, sending her to Rheelasia, an island in the Pacific she describes as a "free-for-all" since it's previous leader died. He reminds them that their is no mercy for escapees, but tells them he won't punish them as a pair of vicious dogs chase them down. When they make their run, Hellhound appears on a tree branch before them, "catching" them, and saying those in the village fear their master more than they do. Oracle tries to talk her out of her "technophobia", telling her it's all pre-programmed and ready to go, and when she turns it on she finds Oracle can see her through a Realtime Video Receptor, though she can't see Oracle, who must keep her identity secret.Įlsewhere, in a jungle area, two people in tattered clothing are attempting to escape across open land to a village. There are far better things to do with that money than buy this terrible comic.Dinah Laurel Lance, the Black Canary, receives a laptop computer in the mail from Oracle, which she has no interest in using in the least. But based on its quality, I don’t think anyone should spend even a dollar on it. For the price point, I’d already be hesitant to buy this issue regardless of how good it was. The dialogue is terrible, the plot is awful, the art does not do its job well, and this doesn’t do anything interesting. It’s a terrible attempt at synergy with a movie that’s remarkably feminist, going all the way in the opposite direction to wind up feeling misogynistic. I genuinely have nothing positive to say about this book. While the entire book looks pretty, I can’t actually compliment the art because it doesn’t fit what’s going on at all. It’s not just layouts, though - Lupacchino is not the best at drawing expressive faces, which results in a pretty jarring moment where Black Canary finds her friend’s dead body and looks up to grieve, but instead looks like she’s in the middle of having sex. Layouts and action sequences don’t flow together well they just feel like static images with no connection to previous and subsequent panels and pages. Her biggest weakness, though, is that her art is not well-suited for sequential storytelling. She draws fantastic covers and does a great job making characters look distinct and attractive. Events just happen.Įmanuela Lupacchino is an artist whose work is almost always gorgeous. It leads to the plot being jumbled nonsense with no cohesive thread to connect things. Azzarello just makes things up and pretends that this is some history we should all be familiar with. I’m sure you could argue that because this is Black Label the book doesn’t need to adhere to existing DC continuity, but from what I can tell it’s not actually trying to have any continuity at all. The same goes for Huntress and Renee Montoya - they do things that feel wildly out of character, with only vague references to anything established about the characters. Black Canary is in a band, but there’s no actual interest in what Brendan Fletcher did with the character. There are references to some of Harley Quinn’s time with the Suicide Squad and her former relationship with the Joker, but the book doesn’t actually acknowledge anything the character has been in the last decade. ![]() If there’s one thing I can safely say about Azzarello, it’s that he doesn’t actually know anything about the characters he’s writing beyond what you could find in a Wikipedia article. The book is more enamored with the idea of Harley Quinn saying “sh*t” and “f*ck” without being censored than it is with having any of its characters talk like people. At no point does the dialogue improve, nor do the characters feel like characters - they all just spout nonsense monologues at one another. This is how the entire book feels, not just this one scene. It doesn’t feel like a conversation, though - neither of them are really talking to each other, rather they feel like they’re having independent monologues that sometimes intersect. Right from the beginning, it starts off with a phone call between some random person who dies five pages in and Black Canary. The dialogue feels like it’s trying to be punchy, but is instead stiff without any flow. Right off the bat, it’s really evident that none of the characters are talking in any sort of recognizable or natural cadence. All I can say is that I’m glad they decided to cut this book off, because I cannot find a single positive thing to say about it. ![]() This book went through a weird solicit period, beginning as an all-new ongoing before being switched over to a Black Label limited series, before again being downsized to an 80-page one-shot. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast! ![]()
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