I actually had some trouble getting this story to make sense, because it’s all told in the style of a “ Choose Your Own Adventure” book. We get a little stuff about Lizzie Hexam’s past, and then Tom Taylor and Savoy help her escape from the hospital. It’s boring, and this is not a comic that should be boring. After Zinda recovers, she and Huntress make a trip to Bangkok to find Dinah, but they’re attacked by a bunch of martial arts thugs with a surprising leader. Hawk and Lady Blackhawk are taken to the hospital to recover, and Huntress almost decides to shoot several arrows into Penguin’s face. The newly re-reformed Savant and Creote take Babs to her new Gotham headquarters, while Black Canary handcuffs the White Canary and accompanies her back to Thailand. I just wish we could see more of the Skull, who is frequently hilarious. The art by Fiona Staples is just grandly charismatic, and Steve Niles’ story is zipping along wonderfully. All in all, it’s pretty rollicking good fun. Hoping to find more answers, Nick and Ana return to Area 51, but run into the general’s son, who attacks them with giant robots. Meanwhile, Sally and Nina reveal that they can read minds and teleport when they take Nick and Anastasia to see Zeke Jones, a tech expert who analyzes the security tapes that purport to show that Nick killed a general. Culprit, who runs the Edgar Allan Poe Historical Society. After evading the police by pretending to be going to a sci-fi convention, they meet up with a possible culprit in the theft - namely, the suspiciously-named Charles Y. While Nick and Anastasia Mystery escape with the super-psychic girls Sally and Nina to a new hideout in the tropics, the Skull and Jules Verne (in his awesomely cool robot body) travel to Baltimore to look for the stolen skull of Edgar Allan Poe.

Filed under Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Friday Night Fights, Oracle.There we go, people, if that chunk of righteous pain-bringin’ skull-thumpery can’t get you through a nice three-day weekend, you got problems that not even comic books can solve. But none of that matters, because Barbara Gordon is one of the DCU’s foremost badasses. Babs doesn’t have her operatives, she doesn’t have her computers, she doesn’t have her Eskrima sticks, she doesn’t even have her wheelchair. The modern version of Spy Smasher, one of Babs Gordon’s rivals from college, has been trying to take control of the Birds away from Oracle and reckons she now has Barbara right where she wants her. Why, no, I’m not particularly happy about that at all.) (from one of the BoP collections that DC has inexplicably allowed to go out of print, which means I’ll probably never get a chance to read the full storyline.

Tonight’s battle comes to us from September 2007’s Birds of Prey #108 by Gail Simone, Nicola Scott, and Doug Hazlewood. So heck, let’s jump right into our weekend with some… FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS! Holy abalone, kids, it’s a three-day weekend! You don’t know how bad I’ve been needing this, especially the way the last few months have gone.

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