Comic Statues & Busts: DC Birds Prey from DC Heroes Villains

After being paralyzed by the Joker, former Batgirl Barbara Gordon became Oracle and formed a crime-fighting team with other female heroes including the martial artist with a devastating sonic scream, Black Canary, the vigilante known as the Huntress and the mysterious Lady Blackhawk!

In this volume, the Secret Society of Super- Villains takes one of the Birds of Prey hostage and demands their leader's secret identity as ransom. The Birds will have to save their friend and battle the superhuman mercenary known as Deathstroke in order to defend the security of their leader.

Birds of Prey by Gail Simone and a host of artists truely displays great comics writing without making the women in the book a cliche! The multitude of artists and the somewhat jarring break in the middle take away some of the glory of this trade but overall all its very good.

Lady Shiva swap.


As part of the whole One Year Later deal, the Birds of Prey have a new member - Lady Shiva - the Canary has gone off for some further training, leaving Shiva replace her as part of this deal.

Needless to say, the international assassin and mega-martial artist and the rest of the Birds have different working styles.

Or, what do you get if you stone cold deadpan killer, ex-mafia chick, and a librarian?


4 out of 5

I first started to like this book with Chuck Dixon. No disrespect to him but Gail Simone is very good. I recommend all the Birds of Prey titles with her writing. Too bad she has moved on to Wonder Woman. The art is also very good.

Although I disliked previous TPB , I must admit this one has plot, humor and everything that made me start collecting Birds of Prey! Not many people can write like this, and art is good or great, like always.

This book collects yet more of writer Gail Simone's run on DC Comics' Birds of Prey series. Collects issues #86-90 & 92-95. Issue #91 was omitted,but doesn't hurt the collected storyline(as #91 was just a 'standalone' story).

Black Canary joins the popular line of 1:6 Scale Deluxe Collector figures!

This rendering of the beautiful Dinah Lance includes a special interchangeable head that captures her in the midst of her sonic scream. Dressed in her intricate and authentically detailed trademark outfit of fishnet stockings, faux-leather jacket, removable mask, choker, and boots, this figure also includes a display stand. Packaged in a deluxe 4-color window box with a fifth panel.

Nice rendition, definitely for the adult collector as I don't think it would be all that durable when actually played with. Nice addition to the DC dolls.

Written by Gail Simone Art by Nicola Scott & Doug Hazlewood Cover by Stephane Roux A final confrontation pits Spy Smasher's Birds of Prey against Catman's Secret Six in Russia for the soul of one of DC's most beloved heroines! Oh, and Oracle hasn't given up on getting her team back either!

Acclaimed writer Gail Simone's run on BIRDS OF PREY comes to its devastating conclusion in this can't-miss graphic novel!

After being paralyzed by The Joker, former Batgirl Barbara Gordon became Oracle and formed a crime-fighting team with other female heroes, including Black Canary, the martial artist with a devastating sonic scream, the vigilante known as the Huntress, and the mysterious Lady Blackhawk!

In this volume, the Birds of Prey cross paths with the villainous group the Secret Six, just as Spy Smasher takes the dismantling of Oracle's operation into her own hands! Who will end up with control of the Birds of Prey?

This is an awfully fun story. It certainly helps to read the previous issues but I think anyone who has a rudimentary understanding of these characters will get a big kick out this book. Basically the Birds of Prey vs. the Secret Six. Both teams have been practically reinvented by Simone, and she does them better than anyone. If you only read one Birds of Prey trade, read this.

I haven't been keeping up with the Birds of Prey series, but I saw the Secret Six were in here and wanted to read it. What a great story! The action and pacing here are spectacular, and I love the inclusion of Hawkgirl and Manhunter to the team. Some of the dialogue is a little corny ("You've awoken the hawk!") but most everything here is great. She really nailed the personalities of the Secret Six and the return of a dead DC character was a great added touch. Even if you haven't read anything previous in this title, you can still pick this up and enjoy it.

This volume of "Birds of Prey" collects issues 104 to 108 of the ongoing DC series, and the final work by longtime series writer Gail Simone, after which she departed to try and rescue "Wonder Woman" from the wreckage of two years of DC editorial policy. The artist here is Nicola Scott (one of the few women in the business), who will continue on into the future with writers Tony Bedard and Sean McKeever (and then Bedard again).

Simone sepnt roughly fifty issues building the definitive iteration of the Birds: Oracle (Barbara Gordon), Black Canary (Dinah Lance), Huntress (Helena Bertinelli), and Lady Blackhawk (Zinda Blake). However, DC eventually intervened and, at issue 100, removed Black Canary in order that she might rejoin Brad Meltzer's "Justice League of America" (although she returns for occasional guest appearances). This change was covered in the last volume, when Simone, instead of bringing in a new steady member for the group, took a radically different approach and expanded the scope of the series into a much larger super-group composed of various female heroes recruited for different missions on a semi-rotating basis; apart from the aforementioned group, on hand for this volume's adventure are Big Barda (the New God); tagalong newbie Misfit, who insists on hanging around with the team; and, my favourite, Manhunter (Kate Spencer).

The preceding volume, "Blood and Circuits", ended with Oracle surrendering control of the organization to the blackmail of US government operative Spy-Smasher (Katrina Armstrong). Spy-Smasher was a rival of Oracle's in college, and now she is out to run the team as a branch of the government. The mission they are dispatched on takes them to the former Soviet Union, where they make a surprising discovery about the nature of the weapon they were sent to recover (I won't spoil it, but it will delight fans of the recently-much-maligned Giffen/DeMatteis JLI), and do battle with the Secret Six: Catman, Scandal Savage, Knockout, Deadshot, Ragdoll, and new member Harley Quinn. Simone's "Villains United" and "Secret Six" miniseries introdued this band of rogues, and it is fitting that her final effort with the Birds also brings in this group (who were shortly to be torn apart by various editorial edicts) for a grand finale. The whole affair is freewheeling big action, of the kind that makes me want to see Simone write the Justice League. After the action is over, Simone has a brief final moment with the original team, who, as Lady Blackhawk acknowledges, will never be together again liike this.

This is highly recommended for anyone who enjoys witty superheroing (especially with well-written female heroes).

This trade paperback handily collects Birds of Prey #'s 104-108, "The Dead of Winter."

You really get your five issues' worth here, of characterization (When she has BULLETS IN HER LEG, Big Barda nonchalantly goes, "Oh. Well, how about that"), of fun (Lady Blackhawk's talk to her "friend," Spy Smasher), of guest stars (the Secret Six, a band of mercenaries who have their own colorful personalities - like Catman, who shows his affection by licking people). . .

. . . and of story! (the return of a once-dead, always-beloved character, the fight between the Six and the Birds, and the latter's leader struggling for control of the Birds).

The two groups (Six/Birds) play off each other with hilarious consequences, and it's pure fun to listen to the characters talk to each other. They sound very real and down-to-earth, even when they're smashing people with their mighty Mega Rod.

The art is fun as well, and poignant to boot. There's a beautiful duo of two-page spreads that's very uplifting about the Birds' sense of friendship and empowerment.

The pacing is wonderful, and your money definitely isn't wasted here. You're set up for a daunting tale, and by the end of it, you'll feel more than satisfied. Overall, this is a very fun, character-driven and insightful arc absolutely filled with story. This is also kind of the end of an era, as writer Gail Simone ends her tenure with this arc.

She sure ended with a bang, though!