Backgrounds are detailed with sharp details and textures, but characters don’t try too hard to be photo-real. From the first panel of a dilapidated church seen through driving rain I knew we were in for something special. In an action-filled issue that’s decidedly NOT an origin story he still managed to clue me in as a totally clueless new reader.Īs for Saiz, his pencils are ace. He also makes perfect use of intercut flashbacks, which artist Jesus Saiz’s cannily matches frame for frame to their lead-in from the present day. He keeps the dialog brisk and to-the-point but still gets the tone of his pair of deadly heroines just right. I was concerned that Duane Swierczynski, who I think of as a hard-bitten guy-with-gun writer, wouldn’t have the hang of a slightly funnier female-driven book. Want the next ish now CK Says: Buy it!īirds of Prey #1 is one of the best first issues out from DC this month, and that’s coming from a reader who has never heard of or seen these characters ever before reading. Duane scripts each well & crafts puzzles within puzzles. #140char Review: Birds of Prey #1 is a pitch-perfect debut for the lady mercs. Written by Duane Swierczynski, art by Jesus Saiz The result? Not a clue of what to expect from the cast or script of this book. Add to that writer Duane Swierczynski, who I think of as the kind of guy who writes stoic male characters, and an DC-exclusive artist I’ve never heard of. With the reboot sweeping Gordon’s Oracle off the playing field, I wasn’t so sure of what to expect from Birds of Prey. Yet, I managed to be completely ignorant of the team aside from one key facet – that Barbara Gordon acted as team captain from her wheelchair as Oracle. It’s not so hard to grasp, and generally one of my favorite types of comic to read.
It’s a largely all-female team of costumed crime-fighters centered in DC’s major urban meccas. Birds of Prey is a team that’s crossed over to many other forms of Bat media.
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