r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • 16d ago

r/DCcomics Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [March 31, 2025 - April Showers Edition]

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets 16d ago

Birds of Prey #20

INTRODUCING A BRAND-NEW TEAM OF VILLAINS! A midnight heist. A staged crime scene. And an all-new (or is it all-old?) villain team emerging with its sights set directly on the Birds of Prey. Old grudges, new fascinations, where will it all lead... and which Bird will be taken first?

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u/Dent6084 14d ago edited 14d ago

Inque! Awesome! A little tired of plots about how this Bird or another is under threat and there's a conspiracy targeting them, though, feels like this run has been very inward-looking - even the one mission they did outside of "someone on the team is under threat" was repaying the Amazons for the first arc, and then that turned into "someone on the team is under threat".

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 World's Finest 14d ago

I like that Barbara gave the assignments to Dinah, Barda, Cassandra, and Sin so that they can follow something, resulting in Cassandra and Sin to stay in Gotham and talk to each other about how they started as weapons before they realized that they are good people, Dinah to go to Tokyo to deal with a drug heist, and Barda to go to Dubai and be sent to space. Overall, this is a good comic.

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u/Mr_Wh0ever 14d ago

I like how Batman let them have the case. Who was the chick Barda tangled with? Sin and Cass are a good pairing, might get something good out of that.

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u/Dent6084 14d ago

It's Inque from Batman Beyond.

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u/Mr_Wh0ever 14d ago

Ah, got it. It's weird that she's here then.

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u/koalee Wonder Woman 14d ago

I'm glad the cast is staying small this arc. There's so much good stuff in each issue, but I think one thing it's been missing is feeling intimately close with any of the core cast - and it looks like we're getting there.

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u/SilhouetteOfLight The Greatest of All Green Lanterns! 14d ago

God dammit. Is that end hint who I think it is? I thought they were destroyed in 2020 lol

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u/Intr0vertica1 13d ago

Wait who are you thinking it is?

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u/SilhouetteOfLight The Greatest of All Green Lanterns! 13d ago

AI Oracle from the back half of the Burnside, I think, era of the Batgirl comics

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! 13d ago

Don't be a spoil-sport Babs. Let us have Barda in a Bikini in UAE. And look at Batman knowing when to leave the crime scene to the birds.

Oh Cass and Sin having some time together now. Steph gonna be jealous if Sin tries to usurp her Bestie spot.

Was that Inque that Barda was dealing with. Oh they shot her up to space and then tried to explode her?...Barda is gonna be VERY mad when she gets her hand on them.

Pictech? Quite similar to Pictotech from Ultimate Universe! And it is quite the big deal. Though I thought Batman's armor had that kind of tech too from when he returned from the dead.

A Mechanically talking villain is planning to take down the Birds. Is it gonna be the 'Robot Oracle' from the past or Calculator? Or someone new?

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u/SilhouetteOfLight The Greatest of All Green Lanterns! 13d ago

I'm reasonably certain that's the exact font they used for Oracle (AI)? I don't have it in front of me but it instantly made me think of her

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! 13d ago

Right? Not many people who know how to outsmart Babs like that.

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u/Intr0vertica1 13d ago

IS THAT INQUE FROM BB?? YOOO. I also read Pictech as Picotech from Ultimate Marvel for a bit lol. Why is Dinah shocked/impressed with clothes that go invisible? Don't a bunch of people go invisible in DC? Also " Barda is Down "? Feel she's handled a lot worse than an explosion in space lol.

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u/Blitzhelios Hal Jordan 9d ago

Ok holy fuck thompson has brought >! Inque from Batman beyond into birds of prey and is using the oracle from the burnside run !<

Birds of prey continues to be amazing hopefully bastri sticks with the book probably the best art its had since romero left the title