Starring more or less the team from the upcoming movie, with The Huntress, Renee Montoya, Black Canary, and Harley Quinn, written by Brian Azzarello (Wonder Woman, Batman: Damned) and drawn by Emanuela Lupacchino (Starfire).
I had a feeling we would get a book with this character team (kind of hoped they would add Barbara to complete the BOP trinity, but hey, maybe she can come in later), but I didn’t expect Azz to be on the book! I know he has a reputation for doing a lot of dark and dirty stuff, but he’s also been shown to write excellent women characters and can do more light and comedic books in the past. Definitely looking forward to this!
Yeah, I would like to see Barbara on the team (and Cassandra too, since she’s also in the movie, just as a little kid) – and who knows, maybe one or the other will show up later on in the series! A similar thing did happen during the New 52 run of BOP…
Of course, bear in mind that I’m impossible to please. If it had Barbara, I would be complaining that she’s not Oracle, and if she were Oracle, I would probably go try to learn more about Huntress’s new backstory or something so I could complain about that.
Cool! I’m not too excited about Harley being in the lineup since writers tend to gravitate to her and write more for her. As long as the other characters get equal attention, I’m looking forward to this.
I’m conflicted on this. On the one hand I’m upset that Barbara is getting kicked out of the Birds of Prey because of the movie. But on the flip side of that I’m not a big Azzarello fan and he did help write the Killing Joke movie so maybe it’s for the best that Batgirl isn’t in the book.
