There were parts in this which I loved and then there were parts I really disliked. Though as I didn’t realize this wasn’t the first volume, I think it makes sense that it was a little confusing to me.

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A little bit better, but there is a lot going on. And this trade is a casualty of the year skip following Infinite Crisis. I'm not sure why the issues after the time skip were included in this collection instead of in the next, but it was a bit jarring. A few big changes, some temporary. Babs tells her father that she's Oracle now, and had been Batgirl in the past. He takes it rather well, considering. The group gets Batman on their side, as much as anyone can who isn't Batfamily. (Well, Babs is...

I am beginning to see that not reading these in order may indeed have its drawbacks. This set appears to be the start of the Birds of Prey proper, with Huntress unconvinced that she really wants to be a part of it and Batman making a rather unexpected appearance (well, unexpected for me; I know nothing about Bats in comic-world). It also spans the Infinite Crisis... thing... about which I know nothing, except that a year is skipped and all of a sudden Black Canary is off doing weird things in a

I really really enjoyed this! What a great combination of female heroes and the storylines were intriguing as well. I loved the way the team works together and I enjoyed the Shiva/Dinah life swap storyline a lot!

Birds of Prey : I don't know when Barbara Gordon (aka The Oracle) became one of my favourite female DC characters, competing with the Black Canary, but she did, and it's good. It's also good seeing the relatively new blood of the Huntress and Lady Blackhawk. It's nice to have a comic with female leads who are competent, level headed and complicated like their male counterparts. In this graphic novel, one of the birds of prey is taken hostage, by someone who demands Oracle's identity as ransom. W...

This is a very, very nicely written book-- Simone's run on Birds of Prey is one of DC's high-water marks-- but it doesn't hold together too well as a single volume. There's a year-long break between the two arcs due to one of DC's incessant reboots, and it's too jarring to be able to pick up the thread. Also, there are multiple artists on each issue and the styles just don't mesh well at all. In the very first section the story starts with the slick, bright chromatic '90's popular style, goes to...

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.

Scaling back a little after the lengthier-than-usual and multi-storyline Vol. 6: The Battle Within, Simone and crew keep it to just two tales - which, a little jarringly, are separated by a "1 Year Later" announcement - in Vol. 7: Perfect Pitch. The opener features the 'BoP' quartet, in a continuation from said prior volume, setting up shop to fight the organized criminal element on the streets of a conspicuously Superman-less Metropolis. (It's probably a typical story by now in this series, but...

Lady Shiva playing Black Canary is everything I could ever want it to be; the year skip between volumes reads as jarring in a marathon session, but the jump ahead with Shiva and Dinah trading places raises a lot of great questions that are answered by volume's end. Are there still some confusing loose ends? Sure, but it's comics! I expect those. And Simone's continuing rehabilitation of Black Canary as a conflicted badass, as opposed to a constant damsel-in-distress, gets some interesting shadin...

A really strong first half sadly shifted to a okay second half due to event. So what's it about now that we're in the 7th volume of birds of prey? Is it still fun? Well yeah, duh, it's written by Gail Simone. So we have the birds all working together once more to take down the mob. Yes...the fucking MOB. Even Batman gets involved and he isn't too happy. We also have Gordan find out the big secret of who Barbara really is. Next up is the one year time skip which leaves Black Canary and Shiva exch...

Yes! So here for the Shiva and Black Canary story line!

Oh, Gail Simone... How I love the way you write the Birds of Prey... This is a lovely team book with a satisfying amount of quality character interaction. All these ladies have their own style, personality, and appearance. They're have enough in common to work well together, but there's also tension between some characters.None of the plots in here are going to blow your mind, but that's not the point of the book. It's about interactions. It's about a group of women working as a team without bei...

Well, this was my first big book of Birfs of Prey, and I must say I was pretty impressed! Never saw Black Canary like the way she rocked it in the jungle!Huntress and Shiva are also great characters, but it's Black Canary and Oracle who really show how it's done properly imho.I will definitely pick up another copy of BoP if I come accross one ;)

Birds of Prey: Perfect Pitch collects nine issues (Birds of Prey #86–90, 92–95) of the 2003 on-going series and covers four stories: "A Wakeful Time", "Perfect Pitch", and "Progeny"."A Wakeful Time" is a one-issue storyline told in three parts (Birds of Prey #86) has the Birds of Prey finding a new headquarters at Dalten Tower. They throw a surprise get well party for Barbara Gordon. While Black Canary is shopping for a gift for Gordon later that night she encounters a bad guy named Tonantzin an...

3.5 starsWhile the illustrations were much less sexualized, the story did have a few problematic elements: a white villan trying to be an Aztec/Mayan God and white savior-ish subplot involving Black Canary adopting an Asian orphan.

I know a lot of people like Gail Simone's writing, but this collection didn't do much for me. A lot of the snarky characters are snarky in exactly the same way, and some of the "madcap" sections didn't seem as funny to me as they were probably meant to be. Some parts are narrated first-person in captions by different members of the team but it's not always obvious who it is doing the talking. I found some of the ideas in the Lady Shiva and Black Canary connection interesting though, as Black Can...

Perfect Pitch is the fifth volume of Simone's Birds of Prey Run, and is considerably slimmer than Vol 6. The first story is a wrap up of previous character arc that Simone has been building for the last several volumes. The Birds of Prey battle the Calculator and a few Society Minions, specifically Deathstroke. The Calculator is another great villain for Oracle, and he is deliciously creepy in this. Barbara continues her physical therapy to hopefully regain more movement after the discovery of b...

I like this series, which kept the grade up, but this was a little uneven. I didn't quite get how the calculator was beaten, and then the one year later happened, and then we get to dinah and shiva adopting kids. It was a big status quo shift, but it was because the takedown of the mobs by helena ended and then we have to build a few new plotlines again. It is always hard to do well, so you almost have to give the creative team the benefit of the doubt and pay it forward to the next few arcs.