So, after 9 months and multiple other Birds of Prey film tie-in comics (such as the Walmart 100-Page Giant anthology, the Amanda Conner/Jimmy Palmiotti Black Label miniseries (still ongoing at this point), and several re-released trade collections), what did Azzarello and artist Emanuela Lupacchino deliver?įirst and foremost, Lupacchino, inker Ray McCarthy, and colorists Trish Mulvihill and John Kalisz provide a truly gorgeous rendering of the Birds and this seedy, run-down version of Gotham City. It’s roughly the equivalent to a 4-5 issue arc, and nine months is about the amount of time Azzarello has said he would have written the ongoing series before another creative team took over. The first issue was pushed back many, many times, until nine months after the original project was supposed to be released, receiving a 100-page one-shot. She manages to make him laugh, sparing her life, but as he walks away, she tearfully picks up his dropped revolver and aims it at his back…Īnalysis: According to interviews, Brian Azzarello was asked to write an in-continuity Birds of Prey title to tie into the movie, originally solicited to start in October 2019. On the banks of the river, Harley crawls out of the water to find Joker’s bazooka in her face. Renee stays behind, planning to be arrested for her actions in helping the skull women gang and allow her partners to escape. Harley jumps onto the car of the escaping women and manages to kill them all before the car plunges into the river. Joker and his gang arrive, and Steve’s team and the police are on their way. ![]() The gang tries to behead Renee, but Huntress and Harley intervene, leading to a desperate battle. They agree on the plan, and they sneak into the next meeting between Montoya and the gang dressed as nuns, much to Catholic Helena’s dismay. They track her down, and she claims that she’s planning to take down the current drug gangs by using the new gang, then take down the new gang from the inside. They get over the awkwardness of Harley’s past, and Dinah gets a call from Steve that Montoya seems to be in league with the new skull women gang. Harley and Helena clean up at a spa/meeting spot, and Dinah walks in, having been summoned. She meets with Steve Trevor, learning that the cartel which murdered Eric also sold deadly drugs to Byron as part of their takeover of the Gotham drug market. They escape into the sewers.ĭinah arrives at her drummer’s apartment to find her dead of an overdose, reacting with a Canary Cry. Joker and his gang interrupt the standoff, responding to Harley’s defiant insults with a bazooka to the window. Montoya arrives but fails utterly to intimidate Harley. Harley Quinn is on a mission to find something new to do with her life without Joker. Huntress wakes up, tied to a chair by Harley, and learns of Harley’s release for “good behavior” (deal with the Suicide Squad). She receives a call from her drummer to plead for support in resisting getting high and blows her off in favor of a hookup. Huntress swings in and rescues Harley, who jumps out the multiple-story window to escape, but gets the detached head in her face as a reward.ĭinah finds her own bar to try to process her reaction to Eric’s death. Huntress calls Montoya to let her know about the skull women and sees Harley walk into the murder scene and confront the gang. The head falls many stories and lands in front of Harley Quinn.ĭinah, alone in her apartment again, looks at a picture of her old team, drinking and mourning. Huntress stakes out the drug gangs from a rooftop, shaken by Montoya’s plans, and witnesses the skull women decapitate another person. In a bar, Joker’s clown gang finds Harley and tries to bring her back to their boss, but she beats them savagely and leaves. ![]() ![]() She meets him in a cafe and learns of Eric’s brutal murder. ![]() She gets a call from Colonel Steve Trevor, now Agent Trevor, another former teammate of Dinah and Eric’s. Renee Montoya meets Helena Bertinelli, the Huntress, under a bridge, where she admits that she’s tired of losing within the police system and plans to fight the drug wars by breaking all of the rules.Īt band practice, Dinah struggles to manage her drug-addicted drummer Byron. Harley Quinn, released from the Suicide Squad, talks to herself on the bus home to Gotham, unsure of what she wants to do. We see him decapitated by women with skull tattoos on their faces as Dinah ignores his warning. Synopsis (spoilers ahead) : Dinah Lance, Black Canary, is woken in her apartment by a phone call from a former teammate and brief hookup, Eric Lagoon, who cryptically warns her of something evil coming to Gotham. Overview: Black Canary, Huntress, Renee Montoya, and Harley Quinn collide in a dark drug war story.
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