Birds of Prey v1 033 - The Big Romance 03

The Courtship.

Ra's Al Ghul's ship already sails in the Caribbean.

They are diving, having a drink, talking when at a pleasant evening, the Count asks Dinah's hand to birth his son. So, both girls, Dinah and Talia get mad about it.

Dinah does because she can't have children. Firstly, Al Ghul consoles her and promises her that he makes her childbearing able again. So he should not have said it, Dinah gets mad again.

Talia complains that after she has done all for her father, he wants her to replace for a boy. To give weight her grievance, she attacks at her father by a knife. But after calming down, she apologizes to him.

However Al Ghul is trying in vain to pacify Dinah.

Then Talia and her father paddle to the beach to prepare the local Lazarus pit (for Dinah?). Black Canary sneaks after them, so finally she knows too that her suitor is the demon's head. Of course, she gets caught. Al Ghul maintains his offer, but Dinah refuses it, so she has to die.

Fortunately Oracle knows that Al Ghul's Lazarus pits are on the intersection points of electromagnetic Ley-lines, and she has discovered Al Ghul's yacht in a satellite image close to one of them. So she knows where Dinah is and she sends a superhero-brigade (Powergirl, Blue Beetle, Mace aka Militia and his pilot, Honey) to escape Dinah.

Chuck Dixon's story is simple; there is hardly any action in it in exchange for a very pleasant atmosphere. I have two problems about it. On the one hand, there is a connotation that these women are totally incomprehensible; on the other hand, it has made virtually completely irrelevant the Jason Bard's thread which has dominated the story so far.

After two months of nap, Butch Guice returns to draw. I have been previously observed that after the naps he has always improved dramatically in quality (so that it falls again). That's right now, so that it is almost perfect. His slightly melancholy pictures and pages are in perfect harmony with the mood of the story so those perfectly complement each other (for example, when Al Ghul ruefully drinks, and he sees Talia in reflection of the glass, it is very awesome). So they can prepare a delightful booklet from a faint story.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.