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A review by ari_odinson
Birds of Prey, Vol. 5: Between Dark and Dawn by Gail Simone
5.0
I love the Birds of Prey: Between Dark & Dawn collection because I feel like that when it really hits home that the Birds of Prey are a family. The dynamics and the relations between the characters feel realistic and like a real family. Oracle brings in Huntress and Black Canary. Both of them are troubled when they join the team.
The arc doesn’t cover Black Canary’s story since that happened earlier, but her connection to Oracle is already strong. Meanwhile, Huntress struggles to work in the field as she faces the cult. Then Vixen shows up and she’s like that good family friend you can depend on when you don’t quite want to go to somebody in your family. She helps serve as a voice of reason.
Meanwhile, Oracle also takes in Savant and Creote trying to rehabilitate them into becoming better people. She makes comments to how Huntress and Black Canary are rough around the edges. They’re a little bit off the charts compared to them. But Oracle is ready to care for them and look into giving them a second chance. Black Canary and Huntress struggle to trust them. It’s understood why especially in Black Canary’s case. I love how flawed all of them are especially when together. It’s not forced, but feels right. The way each of them handle each other and each other’s situation feels right.
Then Oracle always felt like a motherly figure to me in Birds of Prey. She’s probably the strongest out of all of them and she’s watching out for everybody. Yet in this volume, Oracle looses it. She’s challenged in a different way creating a trial for her. All the while this builds how strong Black Canary’s relationship to her is (yet Huntress is still iffy).
I like to think of them as a family. That might be just me. I like the idea of Oracle, Black Canary, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk and Savant (+ Creote, I want them to be mad crazy lovers all the time) being one family rather than just a team.
A lot of people have told me that the Fantastic Four is the only “family” in comics or that the Batfamily is the only important “family” in DC Comics. But the Birds of Prey family is the family for me and the fictional one that I need whenever I settle down read and relax.
The arc doesn’t cover Black Canary’s story since that happened earlier, but her connection to Oracle is already strong. Meanwhile, Huntress struggles to work in the field as she faces the cult. Then Vixen shows up and she’s like that good family friend you can depend on when you don’t quite want to go to somebody in your family. She helps serve as a voice of reason.
Meanwhile, Oracle also takes in Savant and Creote trying to rehabilitate them into becoming better people. She makes comments to how Huntress and Black Canary are rough around the edges. They’re a little bit off the charts compared to them. But Oracle is ready to care for them and look into giving them a second chance. Black Canary and Huntress struggle to trust them. It’s understood why especially in Black Canary’s case. I love how flawed all of them are especially when together. It’s not forced, but feels right. The way each of them handle each other and each other’s situation feels right.
Then Oracle always felt like a motherly figure to me in Birds of Prey. She’s probably the strongest out of all of them and she’s watching out for everybody. Yet in this volume, Oracle looses it. She’s challenged in a different way creating a trial for her. All the while this builds how strong Black Canary’s relationship to her is (yet Huntress is still iffy).
I like to think of them as a family. That might be just me. I like the idea of Oracle, Black Canary, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk and Savant (+ Creote, I want them to be mad crazy lovers all the time) being one family rather than just a team.
A lot of people have told me that the Fantastic Four is the only “family” in comics or that the Batfamily is the only important “family” in DC Comics. But the Birds of Prey family is the family for me and the fictional one that I need whenever I settle down read and relax.