Birds Of Prey #22

"Birds of Prey" is a normally enjoyable comic, but this feels like a large stumble. I'm willing to give Marx and Molenaar a chance to pull everything back together, but at the moment, readers should watch and wait with a slightly more critical eye. Read Full Review

This book is a pale comparison of what it once was. It keeps trying to hammer home plot points and characters that are impossible to care about, and comes out an awful mess of a boring, lifeless book. The worst part has to be the fact that the most interesting elements of this book have been stripped from it. No more Poison Ivy, no more Katana, no more Starling... Just a dull Black Canary, a little-more-than-a-background-character Batgirl, a mute Cassandra Cain knock off and a character no one cares about. I'm not going to lie and say this book wasn't struggling a bit before Marx took over, but I've given her a fair shot, and have to say it's been downhill from the word "go." This issue was the final straw for me, and unless there's a big change for this title, this will be the final issue I review of it. Read Full Review

The five artists who work on this issue do their best to keep things together, with dynamic layouts that keep the reader's eye moving across the page, but they can't save a bad story - or keep me reading. Read Full Review