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A review by tshepiso
Birds of Prey Vol. 3: The Hunt for Oracle by Jackson Butch Guice, Patrick Zircher, Gloria Vasquez, Chuck Dixon, Drew Geraci, Greg Land, Dick Giordano
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
I regret not getting to writing this review until a few weeks after reading this volume. The nature of comics, especially an ongoing series like Birds of Prey is that a lot of the individual issues slip my mind the more distant I get from them. I do recall finding some of the team-ups in this collection to be less interesting than earlier fair. Catwoman and Power Girl make appearances in the volume but their interactions with Dinah weren’t as notable as team-ups in prior volumes.
Where Birds of Prey Vol. 3 stands out is in its titular four-issue arc The Hunt for Oracle. This storyline is by far the most exciting prolonged plot in this run so far. The Hunt For Oracle had some of the best action and pacing in a Birds of Prey comic and I was fully invested in its suspenseful plot and gripped by the twists and turns of the story. The dramatic cliffhanger the story ended on definitely left me wanting more. What made the Hunt for Oracle so standout was the blend of character building and fast-paced action. Earlier fair in the series seemed to delineate the two but bring these two strengths together made for a memorable story.
I’m looking forward to reading more Birds of Prey. Unfortunately, it seems all collected editions of this run skip over 33 issues so I’ll have to hunt them down somehow but I’ll get to them somehow.
Where Birds of Prey Vol. 3 stands out is in its titular four-issue arc The Hunt for Oracle. This storyline is by far the most exciting prolonged plot in this run so far. The Hunt For Oracle had some of the best action and pacing in a Birds of Prey comic and I was fully invested in its suspenseful plot and gripped by the twists and turns of the story. The dramatic cliffhanger the story ended on definitely left me wanting more. What made the Hunt for Oracle so standout was the blend of character building and fast-paced action. Earlier fair in the series seemed to delineate the two but bring these two strengths together made for a memorable story.
I’m looking forward to reading more Birds of Prey. Unfortunately, it seems all collected editions of this run skip over 33 issues so I’ll have to hunt them down somehow but I’ll get to them somehow.