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Geek Dad
07-05-2025
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Review – Birds of Prey #21: One Down
Birds of Prey #21 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: Last issue kicked off the most high-octane mission of the Birds yet, as the entire team was deputized to prevent a tech heist. But whatever the technology at play was, it became clear this was about something much bigger. Black Canary and the duo of Cassandra Cain and Sin both came under attack by coordinated supervillain teams, while Big Barda was infiltrating a building in Dubai when she found out that the entire building was a disguised rocket that blasted of, then detonated with her in it. Enough to kill just about anyone – but not Big Barda. It is enough to knock her out cold, though – which means she's in her armor as she rockets down to Earth like a meteor and creates a crater. Which is exactly what the villain was counting on. That's about when Inque steps in, testing the best way to inject Barda with…something and get her nice and docile for the main villain's master plan. Moving fast. Via DC Comics. Of course, the addition of the ruthless Batman Beyond villain is a big fan-favorite development here. More and more elements of that future continuity have been working their way into the DCU in recent years. But she's not the main villain here – that's Daemon Prime, a mysterious techno-villain who has been puppeteering everyone around the world. There's a sense of urgency to this issue that's hard to find in superhero comics, as the heroes realize they haven't just been outfought – they've been outplanned, and the villains are one step ahead of them the whole time. From the tension between Oracle and Black Canary to the uneasy bonding between Cass and sin, this crisis is bringing out both the best and the worst in the team – but nothing prepared me for the reveal of exactly what the villains needed Barda for. The stakes are sky-high in this arc, and that makes it one of the most entertaining arcs yet. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
Geek Dad
07-05-2025
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Review – Black Canary: Best of the Best #6
Black Canary: Best of the Best #6 cover, via DC Comics, Ray: What do you get when you combine a cutting look at the difficulty of navigating the American health care system with the most brutal fight comic in DC history? You get the latest Tom King deep dive into a superhero's psychology. For five issues, Black Canary has been taking an enormous amount of punishment from Lady Shiva in the ring, and dealing out almost as much, all to save her mother's life. She has to make it to round six, then surrender, to get the lifesaving cure from Vandal Savage. Each issue covers a round, and now we're here. There's just one problem – Shiva has put one of Dinah's best friends in the hospital and cruelly humiliated her at every turn, and now she wants revenge. And as the first bell of this round kicks off, it's not clear if the two of them will even survive to the final round bell, or if the fight will finally go to the point of no return. Watching and waiting. Via DC Comics. Amid the chaotic fight, there are some of those moments that make Tom King's writing so effective, particularly a brilliant one-sided argument as Dinah returns home while her mother languishes in a hospital bed, and essentially has a raging fight with the woman who has dominated her life in so many ways. This may be the best depiction I've ever seen of a how complicated mother-daughter relationships can be, as these two clearly have a deep love for each other but also drive each other absolutely insane. And that sets the stakes sky-high for the final bell, as Shiva humiliates Dinah one time too many, sending Dinah into a rage and leaving her with two objectives that can't possibly mesh with each other – or can they? This is one of the more divisive King books in recent memory (but then, when does he not create tense debates?), but I think it's the story Dinah's needed for a very long time. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
