A Mexican drug cartel (pictured on the cover) is moving into Gotham - Birds of Prey decide to stop them for reasons! Riveting…
A tenner for a single issue? Nah, the price point and self-contained story make this a low-end trade paperback - low-end and low quality! The imaginatively-titled Birds of Prey (no subtitle) is such a badly-written, rushed, nonsensical story.
The Birds of Prey are: Black Canary, Huntress, Detective Renee Montoya, and Harley Quinn - but why they’re a team, why the non-cops care about drug cartels’ business, even why Joker cares that Harley’s broken up with him are all left up in the air by Brian Azzarello.
Birds of Prey don’t have good villains and the cartel assassins are as bland and forgettable as any baddies-of-the-week. Montoya’s apparently implicated in some way with the cartels but who cares - none of this drivel is going to stick. Azzarello’s very hit-or-miss but this is dire even by his standards.
There’s uncensored swears and graphic violence because this is Black Label - edgy! Speaking of graphic, Emanuela Lupacchino’s art was very decent - that’s the only positive thing to say about this rubbish.
Maybe this was meant to tie in to and piggy-back off the expected success of the Birds of Prey movie earlier this year (har har - it failed) so, perhaps appropriately enough, this comic turned out to be as horrendously substandard as the movie!
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