Birds of Prey #10

This is, undeniably, one of DC's best series today, if not the very best. Read Full Review

The really cool thing about the rhythm of this series is that Thompson and company have enough room to move through different bits of narrative momentum while maintaining a firm perspective on everything that needs to go on in the larger series. Each issue is really well placed in a larger context of what's going on. That's kind of a difficult thing to manage with an ensemble that is as large as this one. However, she is doing a great job of it. Characters seem to be making some progress and there seems to be a definite progression in their personality as well. Read Full Review

This is easily the most ambitious book coming out of DC right now. Read Full Review

Rodriguez and Guiday deliver some beautifully detailed art throughout the issue. I really enjoyed how the visual styles complemented each other and how those styles created wonderful visual moment for the characters. Read Full Review

This series keeps giving me things I didn't know I wanted. All the different looks for the team and the bonding sessions add so much more to the storylines. There's nothing these ladies can't make work, and that's evident in Birds Of Prey #10. Read Full Review

This issue is an uptick in this series. We are getting better development of the individual members of the team, and the stakes are also getting higher. Instead of just a rescue mission, this story has the capability of becoming a time-adventure with the theme of death and revenge at the forefront. Read Full Review

Kelly Thompsons bringing a sense of zaniness to the Birds of Prey, making this one of Mr. Toads wild ride. Unfortunately the off the wall hijinks dont always land as Kellyd like them to. Hopefully shell get to her sweet spot as her time on the title marches on. Read Full Review

One thing this book has done really well is how skillful it is with its artist changes to show a point of view/mood change. This time, during the issue set in Barda's mind, Robbie Rodriguez and Gavin Guiday take over the art. Their style works perfectly for this setting and in the larger setting of artists for thisBirdsrun. Each artist shift is incredibly unique and leaves their own mark on the story, but none are so jarring in their differences that it makes it an unpleasant shift that doesn't match the vibe. The artwork in this issue is once again the star, while the writing struggles to find its footing and settle on the plot. Read Full Review

Its one of those necessary evil chapters where this story arc needed these details to be laid out. But that does not excuse how by the end of Birds of Prey #10 we don't progress further than when this issue started. Read Full Review

Birds of Prey #10, outside of Cela's information dump is just so much nonsense. Barely more happens than last issue, but what does is meaningless. The very thin plot doesn't serve the characters that well, and the characters themselves feel secondary, which is again the opposite of the Birds of Prey concept. The plot itself has a lot of contrivance and the REASON Cela's sister is after Barbara couldn't be a more overused idea and underwhelming idea. Read Full Review

Birds Of Prey #10 is the can't-miss issue that explains everything about the mysterious time traveler trying to kill Barbara Gordon. Unfortunately, the answers don't come remotely close to anything you might have guessed. The answers are so overthought, overcomplicated, and unnecessarily overblown that you'll wonder how Thompson had enough hours in the day to go out of her way at every opportunity to make a simple concept unbearably not simple. Plus, the art team's style is unique... until it's too muddled to understand what you're seeing. Read Full Review

Apawn

Jun 08, 2024

SPOILED REVIEW. The Birds, having just departed through the portal from the giant bat dream world, arrive in a new world. Or is it? They have new outfits. Or do they? Mari doesn’t like her 1950s-era styling, that’s for sure. All the ladies are accounted for, except for one: Barbara. Cass asks, “Did we leave her there?” Dinha answers, “I don’t know, Cass.” Vexed Vixen still can’t feel the Red. Suddenly, Barda exclaims, “?!”, after being squicked by an ebony bolt of goop. Knocked down with a huff, Barda gets back up again. She’s fine. Dinah asks, “What was that?” A mysterious woman responds, “It was a bit of Maia.” Cela is her name, along with her pet Poe, who appears to be a ‘wolf’. Cela explains, “Y ou’re inside a pocket dimension", that she and her clever sisters had concocted. Maia was one of Cela's sisters. The view of the world is inspired by whom so ever enters first. Barda entered this one first, if you wondered. Cela continues, “You’re still in the same space. You haven’t gone anywhere. So neither has your friend.” Apparently, if you’re really quiet, Maia can’t find you. You know, like playing Marco Polo at a party, in the pool, with some playmates, without ever saying “Marco, Polo.” Barda chooses a lovely house for them to hide in. Cela’s pet ‘cat’, Poe, says it senses a new portal. Dinah’s plan is for Poe to point them towards it, and they all head there. Cela says, “Pass.” Somewhere in the humble hideout, there is a crash. It was Barda. She fell down again and hasn’t gotten back up. Fratricidal Cela explains, “Barda’s got a bit of my sister Maia in her. After enough time, it’ll drive her mad. The same thing happened to my sister Electra before she begged me to kill her.” Cela, AKA Celaeno Lockhart, tells everyone the story about her seven scarlet-haired septuplet sisters. They were weirdly named after the constellation known as the Seven Sisters. They all received alliterative L-L names, like Alcyone, the first one Maia killed. Alcyone could warp reality and had a voice like a bird. Cela remembers having sworn she’d never forget what her sister’s voice sounded like. She forgot, except that it sounded like a bird. She didn’t forget that. Maia takes the powers of the sisters whose lives she claims. Maia then stole from Mia, Mizoguchi that is. Mia was keen on time-traveling tech while connected to the Green. Greenless Maia found a way to use it after killing sister Taygete, who could control the Red, instead. Asterope and Merope, who could respectively shapeshift and possess others, got killed next. Sister Electra was harder to kill since she was strong and nigh-invulnerable. So Cela, after spooning with Electra, killed her and took her powers. Furthermore, Cela mentions that in the future, Barbara will kill her past passed mother Lani Lockhart, AKA The Velvet Tiger. Elsewhere in the pocket dimension, Barbara wakes up on a grimy jail cell floor. She realizes that when shifting through different versions of the dimension, the objects she holds remain with her. They just appear different. Like say, if she built a gun, it would still be a gun, even though it might not look like one, apparently. Back at the humble abode with the Birds, Dinah denies having killed Cela’s mother yet. Cela concedes, “Not yet.” Barda awakens with a “whamo.” Dinah screams at Barda. Barda doesn’t like that and body checks Dinah into Cela, knocking them both out of the house. Before Barda can kill Cass and Cynthia, Mari stands in the way. Cynthia whips up some spaghetti to block Barda’s fist from hitting Mari in the face. Outside the house, Poe the ‘crow’ caws to Cela, telling her where to find the portal. Inside the house, Cass tells Barda to stop. So, Barda pounds the ground and splutches out the last bit of Maia. Cela leads Cynthia to the portal and tells her to jump in first. Meaera asks, “Will it be my memories or yours that it takes?” Cynthia responds, “I don’t know.” TO BE CONTINUED. Let’s let Barda sum up this issue, “[KRRCCCCH] What a [KKKKKK] delightful surprise”. more

Williamflipper

Nov 17, 2024

Cute

mike531

Jun 06, 2024

Slow moving plot. Literally the only movement comes from pink hair girl's exposition. We learn what the monster thing is, it's origin, annnd it's (apparent) motive for coming after Barbara. Needless to say, that is way too much to reveal in chit-chat from some random OC. Sans Cela's convenient narrative, the plot has no meaningful movement

Jawnyblaze

Jun 06, 2024

The story is mildly interesting, but the art just makes me want to vomit. This faux dot printer look is just revolting. Even without that effect it would still be subpar, if not nauseating. I've hated the art this whole series minus the one issue that didn't look like it was printed on a bubblegum wrapper, but the story for the most part has kept me reading. The first arc was especially good, but I'm still along for the ride for now. Dunno how much more of this art I can tolerate though.