A review by carlyoc
Black Canary/Oracle/Huntress: Birds of Prey by Chuck Dixon, Jennifer Graves, Drew Geraci, Greg Land, Matt Haley, Gary Frank, Stefano Raffaele, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Sal Buscema

3.0

In my efforts to get into comics, I was drawn to this one because it brought together a collection of strong female superheroes, some of whom I was familiar with from other media and some of whom I knew nothing about. I was disappointed to find that that all of the writers and most of the artists involved were men and that the women were still drawn in over-sexualized, impossibly contorted ways. I also found some of the character's dialogue and motivations shallow. In the Manhunt arc: Really? You couldn't think of a worse thing a man could do to a woman than not call her for a second date? I could think of a thousand better motivations for Black Canary to want to hunt this guy down. Also, how many times do you need to use the word "mad-on" to describe a grudge against someone? Once was okay but by time # 3 I began to wonder, Is anger such a masculine emotion that you can only describe it using a bastardized version of the word "hard-on"?
All in all, this book served as a good introduction to Oracle, Black Canary, and several others but falls prey to many of the pitfalls of the comic book industry, even though it at first seemed like a book about women, for women.