Birds of Thread

Garlic Bread

I've been thinking of making a Birds of Prey thread for a while, but the book always seemed so...self-contained that there wouldn't be much to discuss in a thread.

However, this interview with Gail Simone shows that the book is about to get fucking crazy, so here's a thread.

For those of you that don't know: Birds of Prey is a team of superhero chicks run by Oracle (Barbara Gordon). It started out as just Oracle and Power Girl, but then they fucked up and Power Girl couldn't save some people so she quit. Then it was Oracle, Huntress, and Black Canary. They became the best of friends and the book became all about girl jokes but guys get it too. Gypsy and Lady Blackhawk eventually got on the team

With issue #100, Black Canary left the team. It doesn't sound like it'd change the book much, just add another girl to the team, but nope! It changed the whole fucking thing! Now there are new teammates, plus heroes that'll be on a per-mission status, etc. The current roster is:

Oracle
Huntress
Gypsy
Lady Blackhawk
Big Barda
Manhunter
Judomaster

Plus you have Misfit causing trouble, so it makes for an awesome book.

Who is Misfit? Misfit is a teenage girl with teleportation powers that dresses like Batgirl. She's no chump with teleporting, either. She can go anywhere. None of that "I have to see where I'm going" shit. She thinks it and she goes there.

So let's bring out our inner (or outer) fags and talk about how such a girl book is awesome

Mai-Kero

Manhunter is all upons.

and misfit is awesome.

Bad Karma

Hi my name is Don.


I am a Birds of Prey fan...and...

I am a male.

I fucking love this new roster.

Garlic Bread

oh man

Issue #104

they fight/team-up with (I don't know) Secret Six

both teams get a new member

awesome

thepassenger

Ermmm why does the link to the interview lead to a picture of man penis?

Marathon

That man looks like Putty from Seinfeld.



If he were naked. Wang all a floppin.

Garlic Bread

that is exactly who it is

holy fuck I didn't mean to post that

that was PMed to raijin and jordyn

Garlic Bread

now we know why I like birds of prey

Scooter

I thought putting half a dozen hot superchicks on one team made it a guys book



I mean this is all leading to a lesbian pillow superfight somewhere down the road right

Garlic Bread

No, it leads to them making girl jokes and talking about having cobwebs in their cooters

Bad Karma

Scooter wrote:

I thought putting half a dozen hot superchicks on one team made it a guys book



I mean this is all leading to a lesbian pillow superfight somewhere down the road right

The funny thing is, The Outsiders has more homosexual innuendo / jokes in a single issue than BoP does in a years worth of issues.

And anything that resembles that in BoP is done in a smart, funny way, rather than make you cringe as you read it.

Jordyn

That Patrick Warburton picture was the greatest thing that happened to me today.

Fencingsax

Bad Karma wrote:

Scooter wrote:

I thought putting half a dozen hot superchicks on one team made it a guys book



I mean this is all leading to a lesbian pillow superfight somewhere down the road right

The funny thing is, The Outsiders has more homosexual innuendo / jokes in a single issue than BoP does in a years worth of issues.

And anything that resembles that in BoP is done in a smart, funny way, rather than make you cringe as you read it.

Yes, but it's awesome when heroes take just as much childish pleasure in making jokes about Barda and her "mega-rod" as we do.

Bad Karma

Fencingsax wrote:

Bad Karma wrote:

Scooter wrote:

I thought putting half a dozen hot superchicks on one team made it a guys book



I mean this is all leading to a lesbian pillow superfight somewhere down the road right

The funny thing is, The Outsiders has more homosexual innuendo / jokes in a single issue than BoP does in a years worth of issues.

And anything that resembles that in BoP is done in a smart, funny way, rather than make you cringe as you read it.

Yes, but it's awesome when heroes take just as much childish pleasure in making jokes about Barda and her "mega-rod" as we do.

But see, theres a big difference between that, and..

"z0mg Im like so drunk...and kind of horny...ololz."

Lux

I want to see some of the lesser known female heroes to be cycled in with each arc, except for Manhunter, who can stay since she has no book anymore.

Terrorbyte

I have a crush on Zinda.



Pretty bird.

Whippy

Lux wrote:

I want to see some of the lesser known female heroes to be cycled in with each arc, except for Manhunter, who can stay since she has no book anymore.

manhunter started back up again like three months ago

Munch

Chuck Dixon wrote the holy fuck out of Ted Kord (lol Munch is talking about Ted Kord here again lol) so I have to love this book. It only helps that it's also fucking awesome. I think I'll have to buy a complete run of it some day.

Servo

WhipstitchZombie wrote:

Lux wrote:

I want to see some of the lesser known female heroes to be cycled in with each arc, except for Manhunter, who can stay since she has no book anymore.

manhunter started back up again like three months ago

and promptly got canned again

robosagogo

WhipstitchZombie wrote:

Lux wrote:

I want to see some of the lesser known female heroes to be cycled in with each arc, except for Manhunter, who can stay since she has no book anymore.

manhunter started back up again like three months ago

Didn't it get canceled again?

Bad Karma

WhipstitchZombie wrote:

Lux wrote:

I want to see some of the lesser known female heroes to be cycled in with each arc, except for Manhunter, who can stay since she has no book anymore.

manhunter started back up again like three months ago

Cancelled after #30.

Whippy

what the hell

Garlic Bread

They did say they were bringing it back from the first cancellation with a 5-part story arc.

I guess we just assumed there'd be, you know, stories after it.

Lux

It was only supposed to be a 5 issue test/miniseries. Maybe it will come back again, just not right away.

Fencingsax

Terrorbyte wrote:

I have a crush on Zinda.



Pretty bird.

She could drink anyone under the table, too.

Garlic Bread

The interview's been updated with scans of the next issue, featuring Mister Bones

guyjo

Gail Simone is a genius.
Everything - especially Birds of Prey - is a total blast to read!
The last few issues of Birds have been especially good.

Conditional_Axe

Love this book so much. I hope Barda and Manhunter stay on permanent-like

Gail says the team's getting a male on the roster soon, too. I wonder who it'll be.

Misfit is pretty great, especially in her first appearance when she was all 'dark dark vengeance' and whatnot. adorable.

Garlic Bread

[spoiler:41717b2078]I doubt Manhunter's on the team, unless the whole "being in Mexico way past leaving time" is just a ruse to fool Spy Smasher.[/spoiler:41717b2078]

guyjo

Keith wrote:

[spoiler:2ad3c4b06c]I doubt Manhunter's on the team, unless the whole "being in Mexico way past leaving time" is just a ruse to fool Spy Smasher.[/spoiler:2ad3c4b06c]

I strongly suspect it is one

Garlic Bread

guyjo wrote:

Keith wrote:

[spoiler:a65293bc8d]I doubt Manhunter's on the team, unless the whole "being in Mexico way past leaving time" is just a ruse to fool Spy Smasher.[/spoiler:a65293bc8d]

I strongly suspect it is one

But

[spoiler:a65293bc8d]The preview has Manhunter telling Oracle she was never taking orders from her.[/spoiler:a65293bc8d]

guyjo

Keith wrote:

But

[spoiler:9064a489f7]The preview has Manhunter telling Oracle she was never taking orders from her.[/spoiler:9064a489f7]

They usually preview the first few pages - that could still be going on for Spy Smasher's benefit...at least I hope so.

Garlic Bread

Nope, Manhunter was working for Mr. Bones

Garlic Bread

What's the deal with Oracle

nobody talks to her anymore

I mean, it's cool that she has a team to run

but before, everyone would call her up for help

now she's not in anything but BoP

Bloods End

She got the clap.

Servo

she can't tell, though

Munch

Keith wrote: »

What's the deal with Oracle

nobody talks to her anymore

I mean, it's cool that she has a team to run

but before, everyone would call her up for help

now she's not in anything but BoP

Personally, I hated that period a few years ago where it seemed like Batman stopped being a detective and started just calling up Oracle any time he needed a problem solved. So I was kind of glad to see them drift apart a bit. Still, I would like to see other heroes calling her up from time to time.

Iroh

Let's say I was going to pick up some backissues today. Where do I begin? I've got zero background with the vast majority of DC characters, so going back a few arcs would be good.

Garlic Bread

Wait, she was in the new Blue Beetle book for like two panels in that one issue

Bloods End

So Gail is leaving BOP soon to be replaced with that Sean Mcneever guy.

Silpheed

I hope that the comic books are better than the tv show was.

BTW, are the Birds of Prey timeline supposed to be further into the future, after the current superheroes of today?