Writer Kelly Thompson, artist Leonardo Romero and colorist Jordie Bellaire are the new creative team for this series as Thompson teases Black Canary is building the most dangerous Birds Of Prey team yet…
Yeah I was Just about to comment on @millernumber1 post in Dawn Of DC topic but you beat me to the punch with a entirely separate topic mentioning them. Solid.
I think the team will include Lady Shiva and huntress as that seems obvious to me for a Birds of prey team, along with newcomers Angel Breaker and Harley Quinn. Now I love Batgirl in the team but I feel like that description of a team with darker elements than perhaps this team might not include their famous oracle in it.
Lady Shiva is a villain most days but occasionally she helps the other heroes. She trained Robin, worked with the Outsiders and recently in Urban legends #14 did start a short term Birds of Prey team with Katana. No offense @MatthewHecht but she’s currently more like a Anti-villian now.
I thought she and Dinah having a established contentious relationship in the pre-flashpoint Birds of Prey that this series could potentially bring that up if you have a more dangerous version of the team.
They are such a great team. I could never get into the rebirth title as I wanted to and I didn’t care much for the Harley Quinn centric birds of prey team books that came around the time of the movie.
Fingers cross Kelly Thompson gives the team the proper outing they deserve.
She was in that, but that was a truly execrable story, sadly. I desperately hope that nothing from it survives into Kelly Thompson’s book.
You should! The Dixon run is very good, and the Simone run (starting with #56) is sublime!
The Rebirth title was fun but really simplistic in plotting and characterization. I don’t and didn’t hate it (like I do the Urban Legends story or the n52 title), but it’s extremely, extremely forgettable. And the Harley Quinn movie-tie in stuff…just not Birds of Prey at all, especially the Azzarello one shot. Awful, awful comic.
And as I said in my Dawn of DC post, above all, I hope that Stephanie Brown is on the team most of all! She could really use some more training with Dinah!
So much of this is so up my alley. Great creative team. Cass is on the lineup. All it needs to be perfect is Oracle.
On Twitter, Kelly has said that the three remaining characters are not OCs, that Dinah isn’t the only member with superpowers, and that the team overall does not lean “too Gotham.”
My called shot for the rest of the team: Oracle, Thunder, and Grace Choi.