Birds of Prey v1 026 - The Suitor

Love is in the Air.

It is also a one-piece story, but it is not as uninteresting as the previous one. Firstly, I would like to mention the "Batman dies!" label at the first pages.

Batman does not die in this booklet, in fact he is not even listed (I will back this at the end). It's probably something funny reference to one of the protagonists of the booklet: Bane was the one who broke Batman's spine. So it is enough for introduction.

The story is open by the desert wandering Bane and his endless monologue, in which he explains to readers why and where he is. (It is really nice of him.)

Bane and his caravan arrive in a desert gorge, and he kills the others here, then he descends to the bottom of the gorge by parachute, where it stands a rock-hewn church (it is remarkably like the city of Petra).

He penetrates into the church, where he gets on a female's fresh footprints. He thinks immediately her lover, Talia al Ghul, who has turned down, and now he would like to grab her neck and to squeeze out the breath from her. However she is not Talia,

but Black Canary.

After clarifying the misunderstanding, Dinah points out that she looks for some terrorists’ store. The small talk is interrupted by intruders, whom Dinah is warned by Oracle. Black Canary believes that they belong to Bane, so she throws in the canary cry grenade and withdraws. But they don't belong to Bane, who throws herself after Dinah and he catches her. He saves Dinah by throwing a giant stone statue among the pursuers,

then he drives her the armory.

Here, he immediately arms some well-timed nuclear weapon (for to destroy the warehouse) on which Dinah piss off.

However, Bane leads her to Ra's al Ghul's one of Lazarus Pit (Caution: The link is spoiled) by which the Demon's Head uses to resurrect himself.

Here, he also confess love to Dinah, it looks she to return,

but rather she kicks him in the balls and withdraws (this ball kicking theme has had to be drawn by such tender hint).

Well, this is practically the end of the story. Escaped Dinah in front the blast is watched by Talia from the distance, and that's all.

Well, this story is also not a big deal by Chuck Dixon. Bane in Love is moderately funny (but the front page is the most funny), the action-packed story is mildly interesting, but it is not a lot of things in the story. In fact (just like the "The End?" label suggests), it leads up a future storyline. I feel some progress of Butch Guice's draws (I know, I have felt it at other times). Sometimes he is quite good,

but sometimes he is not really it (and he is good again immediately afterwards).

Shannon Blanchard is starting to get into the coloring, even though she sometimes takes her irritant favorite colors.

Finally, let's back to aforementioned death of Batman. When Bane descends into the gorge, at the bottom left in the distance, you can see Batman in some kind of monster's arms.

But I guess it's something joke.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.