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scans_dailyYou know what's never going to get old? The Court of Owls!
Issue 8 is spy stuff with Dinah and the team fighting a group of metahumans for nebulous reasons. It's whatever.
I can't help but think that if you shot someone in the head, they wouldn't be able to stab you in the dick. You're not going to be standing there like Khan quoting Melville at the end of Star Trek 2. Your brains are on the wall!
Buckle up, gents--we're getting Black Canary backstory.
But first, a tie-in.
This seem a little much to anyone else? I kinda had BOP pegged as "fun Batman-adjacent adventures with a reasonable amount of violence and angst," not "here's a dude's intestines." (Don't worry, mods, I already put a trigger warning for gore in the tags.)
Anyway, this whole issue is the Birds fighting a Talon, who is being sold as an unstoppable menace.
Isn't Dinah's Canary Cry enough to get some blood out of Superman on full power? Aren't the Talons basically zombies? The Canary Cry takes apart tanks--I don't care how tough he is, he's gonna be a bunch of very tough molecules...
I didn't edit anything, that's the next page, and we just... randomly get the Talon's inner monologue for a bit. It comes across as awkward to me, but what do I know?
"The mythical Batman"? Are we implying that the Birds haven't met Batman before just now? Oh man, the Nu52 was a MESS.
They end up fighting on a moving train--Gotham's infrastructure may be shit, but they are NEVER not providing public transit if it makes for a good fight scene.
Conveniently, the train has a refrigerated car and if they get him in there, he's down and out.
Oh good, an Ivy story. Time for the weirdness of her being one of the good guys to pay off.
Issue 8 is spy stuff with Dinah and the team fighting a group of metahumans for nebulous reasons. It's whatever.
I can't help but think that if you shot someone in the head, they wouldn't be able to stab you in the dick. You're not going to be standing there like Khan quoting Melville at the end of Star Trek 2. Your brains are on the wall!
Buckle up, gents--we're getting Black Canary backstory.
But first, a tie-in.
This seem a little much to anyone else? I kinda had BOP pegged as "fun Batman-adjacent adventures with a reasonable amount of violence and angst," not "here's a dude's intestines." (Don't worry, mods, I already put a trigger warning for gore in the tags.)
Anyway, this whole issue is the Birds fighting a Talon, who is being sold as an unstoppable menace.
Isn't Dinah's Canary Cry enough to get some blood out of Superman on full power? Aren't the Talons basically zombies? The Canary Cry takes apart tanks--I don't care how tough he is, he's gonna be a bunch of very tough molecules...
I didn't edit anything, that's the next page, and we just... randomly get the Talon's inner monologue for a bit. It comes across as awkward to me, but what do I know?
"The mythical Batman"? Are we implying that the Birds haven't met Batman before just now? Oh man, the Nu52 was a MESS.
They end up fighting on a moving train--Gotham's infrastructure may be shit, but they are NEVER not providing public transit if it makes for a good fight scene.
Conveniently, the train has a refrigerated car and if they get him in there, he's down and out.
Oh good, an Ivy story. Time for the weirdness of her being one of the good guys to pay off.
