Birds Of Prey #1 W: Duane Swierczynski A: Jesus Saiz
Title
promises a team title, but by the end we still only have a pairing. Now
there's a slow build or there's the glacial pace this seems to be
constructed at. Nothing much seems to happen except a WOW KEWL WOW
kerfuffle in a church which seems to exist mainly to delivery zingy
dialogue like this:
And
you know, it's pretty much all that clunky. The image above is really
the first in which everybody changes places and perspective in a car to
suit the composition (including one panel where I can't get to grips
with the perspective at all) but really exists to segue into Starling in
the same position, in a diner (and/or a bar) at a different time. Now
this might have been a nice effect (albeit the second time they pull it
in this issue) but this one os spoiled by an advert being in the middle -
not the best planning really. And when I said clunky, I did mean it -
there's some real confusion about the effect the bad guys have had on
Black Canary during the FITE, but her power is worse:
So
the power level has been re-baselined in the Johns Universe, but if
it's that good then why only use it once? She walks out of this panel
into a room with more bad guys in it - so why not use it again? Not
doing so makes the pages smack of filler as they just run through the
same thing again, and surely in #1 of a title filler is a CRAZY thing to
do?
The best thing about the book is this panel, which captures perfectly how I feel about the Johns Universe by now.
Why,
that I won't be so keen next time. This could arguably be saveable as I
don't hate it, but it's hovering over the cut list at the moment.
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