Comic Review: Birds of Prey #9
Night of the Owls continues into week three and now they are chasing the Birds.
Book: Birds of Prey #9Written By: Duane SwierczynskiPencils By: Travel ForemanPublisher: DC ComicsRelease Date: OUT NOW IN STORES & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD (VIA COMIXOLOGY)Rating: Night of Owls picks up again for week three with Bird of Prey. Giving us a few pages grace from Batgirl after her own tussle with an Owl assassin last week, we literally find Katana and Canary mid fight with their own Owl and it doesnt look like its going well. Ivy is potentially dead. Canary looks rattled and when this Owl takes a Canary scream straight in the chest without much of a issue the Terminator style this Owl that we also saw in Batman and Robin #9 last week continues. We get a look into how this Owl assassin sees his prey and they seem to be like visions from his past. We even get an insight into his thoughts, which makes this Owl quite interesting as well but its when the mask comes off and we see the man behind the mask where this tussle with the unstoppable owl becomes more like a horror story. His ghostly design is dead creepy and makes the threat of him even more as he pursues the Birds of Prey. Batgirl arrives with a plan and of course this plays out much akin to the other Bat-family titles and their run in with the Owls but the structure of this one was a little fresher and Travel Foremans artwork keeps everything kinetic and lively capturing those small moments of shock as the Owl threatens the Birds. This was a solid issue but offers nothing in the way of progression. It sort of feels like a filler episode a little and with no other Birds of Prey issues in this Night of the Owls run I doubt well see much of a follow up to the events here even if what happened to Ivy seems to warrant some knock on effects.