Birds of prey comic
After Black Canary's departure, Huntress remained as the staple member and field leader, alongside new "core members". The core of the team is made up of Oracle and Black Canary, with other heroines forming a rotating roster sometimes for extended periods, sometimes for merely one adventure.
Oracle, the team's leader, refers to the group by that name in a conversation with the new Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, and later within the series.
#BIRDS OF PREY COMIC SERIES#
With the 2016 company-wide soft relaunch DC Rebirth, the Birds of Prey are re-introduced in the new title Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, featuring a team consisting of Batgirl, Black Canary and Huntress.ĭespite the title of the series being Birds of Prey, the phrase was not mentioned in the book until issue #86, when one of the group's members, Zinda Blake, suggests that it might be a fitting name for the team, but other characters get sidetracked and do not respond to her suggestion. In 2011, the title was relaunched under writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Jesus Saiz. Artists have included Butch Guice, Greg Land, Ed Benes and Joe Bennett Nicola Scott began a stint as artist with issue #100. Sean McKeever was originally to replace Simone, but McKeever subsequently decided to leave the project and only wrote issues #113–117 Tony Bedard, who wrote issues #109–112, briefly took over the title at issue #118. Gail Simone scripted the comic from issue #56 to #108. Gorfinkel and originally written by Chuck Dixon. The group is initially based in Gotham City and later operates in Metropolis and then relocates once more to "Platinum Flats", California, a new locale introduced in Birds of Prey in 2008. The team name "Birds of Prey" was attributed to DC assistant editor Frank Pittarese in the text page of the first issue. The book's premise originated as a partnership between Black Canary and Barbara Gordon, who had adopted the codename Oracle at the time, but has expanded to include additional superheroines. At any rate, if you were excited about the book before, chances are this doesn’t do anything to taper your enthusiasm.Birds of Prey is a superhero team featured in several American comic book series, miniseries, and special editions published by DC Comics since 1996.
#BIRDS OF PREY COMIC MOVIE#
Surely, it will garner far more attention with a new movie out. I think it’s also a win for the comic, which kind of got lost in the shuffle at first during many other announcements amid San Diego Comic Con. Ultimately, this is probably a bit of a win for those of us who follow DC’s mainline superhero comics, bristling as we do at blatant movie synergy in our stories, blatant synergy like launching a new Birds of Prey team that mirrors the movie lineup and doesn’t include characters integral to the property, specifically thinking here of Barbara Gordon. Azzarello also penned Black Label’s inaugural title, the Lee Bermejo collaboration, Batman: Damned, which in its initial printing featured artwork of the Bat-genitalia that initiated quite the reaction. Quite a lot has happened with DC’s approach to imprints since then, however, and, to me at least, Black Label’s role feels a bit more nebulous than it did at its inception, with the company stressing that it is now simply an age designation to be put on stories for adult readers. Black Label was initially announced as an imprint way back when for more mature, out-of-continuity offerings that would hopefully act as evergreen sellers with appeal to lapsed or new comics readers who come upon them in bookstores. Meanwhile, the book is still being written by the originally-announced team of Brian Azzarello and Emanuela Lupacchino, and it will now also feature a cover by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (see above).įor those who keep up with monthly DC superhero comics, this likely also means that the story will span a single arc and take place out of continuity, as has been the case with all the other superhero Black Label offerings so far. No official release date has been announced just yet, with orders for the book stricken in lieu of an eventual resolicitation. The movie is due out February 7, and so, one might presume the new comic, which features the same team lineup as the film, will hit shops some time nearer to then. DC’s forthcoming Birds of Prey comic, which was due out in October, will get the publisher’s Black Label branding, as well as a new release date to coincide with the franchise’s movie adaptation, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn.