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

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.