gailsimone:

nanigasy:

scans_daily | Birds of Prey #2 Against the White Canary!

If I were asked the two things I miss the most about the new 52, it would probably not be the obvious suspects. Yes, I miss the benched characters and Donna Troy and WW’s origin and all of that stuff.

But personally, just me talking, the two things I miss the most are the Lois/Clark marriage, and the Birds of Prey being friends.

I miss that Huntress and Oracle and Canary and Zinda loved each other and always had each others’ back, no matter what. That Huntress would throw a drink in Shiva’s face to protect Canary, that Canary would face Brainiac’s electrocution to protect Oracle. I think that their relationship was one of the most subversive messages in mainstream comics, in some ways. And readers responded, the book was one of the most stable non-bat, non-gl books at DC the entire time I was on it. I think it was that friendship that people most treasured, and, I hasten to add, that helped make it the first truly successful all female team book in comics’ history, to my knowledge.

I like the new 52, and I like the new BOP in particular, Duane’s doing a lovely job on it, but it’s not yet (for perfectly understandable reasons, and it may never be) a book about female friendship in the same way that it had been previously. Similarly, there are few female friendships at all at this early stage, and I dearly miss them.

Fortunately, there’s room to grow, even if the cart moves slower than I would like.

That said, Bop really IS one of the best of the new books and is always worth reading!

thehappysorceress:

Birds of Prey: Empty Nest, my latest commission from Mike Kevan

(inspired by Gail Simone)

When it comes to Birds of Prey, everything is still so raw and emotional. Words fail to express adequately how moved I am by your commission. Sometimes you feel like you’re ready to move on because life goes on whether you’re on board or not, so you might as well. This brings it all back, and I’m not even close to being able to let go of the bop I’ve come to know, respect and love. I miss it so much, so terribly much that I ache for it.

discowing:

Birds of Prey Roster by *Crimsonsea on deviantART 

I love that Huntress eyes are brown. It’s shallow and unimportant, but I do.  This is quite lovely!

Helena, Dinah, Zinda, and Creote are in Istanbul to meet with arms dealer Yasemin Soze whose clientele include a rival Metropolis Mob. Helena has been working an angle against the Gotham mob where she demanded her birthright as their capo and has blackmailed them into giving her a chance to prove herself worthy to be their new head. Her real agenda is to bring the mob down.

I always hated (even got to tell Sean McKeever who laughed) that Superman interrupted this exchange between Helena and Barbara. I thought stuff was about to hit the fan and get juicy! It was realistic that after the their fiasco and failure, that cost a lot of people their lives, emotions would be high. I’ve always enjoyed Helena’s perspective on situations. She’s hard on herself and just about everyone around her. But there’s an innate amount of intergrity and honesty that runs through her. She sees things and calls like they are.

I don’t know where this conversation could have gone if not for the interruption, probably to saying things people regret in the heat of the moment. I do know it lead to Helena and Zinda taking a little break to do their own thing for a second which was great because it gave them an opportunity to get to know one another better and it strengthened their bond and friendship. For that, I was grateful.