The Cassandra Cain Podcast is back to talk about issue 5 of the Mother saga.  There's action, trippiness with some familiar faces.  Cassandra Cain's life is turned upside down...will she be able to get her situation and relationship with her mom, Lady Shiva, turned right side up?  Let us know your thoughts at [email protected]

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Feathers and Foes are back to talk about the Kelly Thompson banger! Write to us at [email protected] or www.patreon.com/wrightonnetwork

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Birds of Prey: Issue 19        Released: March 5, 2025 

Writer: Kelly Thompson      Art: Juann Cabal      Colors: Adriano Lucas  

Lettering: Clayton Cowles    Editor: Jessica Berbey     Group Editor: Rob Levin

Title: Divide and Conquer Part 2

At the Lake House, Dinah and Sin’s trap has succeeded and their stalkers attack. A huge fight ensues with Oracle supplying help via drones. But when Dinah moves in front of the window, she’s hit by a sniper’s bullet.

Meanwhile in the magical streets of The Seam, Big Barda continues her battle with the golems. She smashes them only for them to reform. No problem. She opens a boom tube to the moon and hits or tosses them through. She grabs their controller, Barter, and threatens to do the same to him unless he tells her how many others are after Batgirl and Constantine.

Elsewhere in The Seam, the demon controlled Constantine continues it’s attempt to get Batgirl to free it from it’s bonds. Needless to say she’s not even tempted. When the final golems attack, Batgirl smashes them then separates the parts by tossing them in various stores and barrels along the road. 

Back at the Lake House, Sin loses it when Dinah is shot at goes full Megaera, with green light blasting out of her and tendrils all doing their thing. She, or is it they, float out of the roof and threaten the League of Shadows, or whatever splinter cell this is, that they better gather their fallen and leave or she will take them apart. She further threatens to end them if she ever sees them again.

Afterward Sin returns to care for Dinah. Dinah is worried if the being who just threatened the attackers was Sin or all Megaera. Sin isn’t sure and Dinah reassures her they will find someone who can help.

Back in The Seam, Batgirl and the demon infested Constantine reach the portal where the demon must be deposited. She rebuffs it again and is about to toss it in when Barda arrives to kick it through. A few moments later, the freed Constantine returns to the street.

Dinah and Sin settle down to watch the sun rise at the Lake House. Sin expresses another concern. Some of the League of Shadows assassins she threatened appeared to be happy. She’s possibly given them something new to covet: Megaera. 

Feathers and Foes is back to talk Black Canary.  Dinah whips her band into shape, preparing them for hand to hand combat and more for whatever is coming for them

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AJ and Tim discuss The Outsiders #18 from 1987, “...Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light”, dieting, Monty Python, and game shows.

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Closing music: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart

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Huntress: Cry for Blood 2

Cover Date: July 2000

 Writer: Greg Rucka

Artists: Rick Burchett

Colorist: Tatjana Wood

Letterer: Clem Robins

Associate Editor: Joseph Illidge

Editor: Dennis O’Neil

And Now … She Can Not Be Forgiven

After paying her respects at her cousin Claudio’s wake, Helena was forced to screech to a halt as The Question was standing in the road. She gets out to confront him. He tells her the story of a man dreaming he’s a butterfly that suddenly thinks perhaps he is a butterfly dreaming he’s a man. Helena is not impressed and drives off.

The next morning Helena heads out from her apartment to the school where she teaches. On the way she sees a sensationalized article linking the Huntress to mob killings. Helena thinks the reporter, Karen Frazier, must be mobbed up herself to write such a story. But Helena is disturbed by the article in another way. If the cops really are after the Huntress, there is the possibility Batman will reveal her identity to them. Then the ruling families of Gotham really will come for her blood.

 Meanwhile, Nightwing is talking with Oracle. He believes Helena did not kill her cousin despite one of the Huntress’ crossbow bolts sticking out of his chest. Oracle is not so sure and isn’t happy when he says he’ll be talking to the Huntress.

 In an elegant house, Mario Cassamento, son to the mobster Santa Cassamento, and Vinnie joke around about seeing Helena the night before and how they’d like to get her out of her coat and into a warm bath. Mario’s father proceeds to hit him in the head with a rolled up newspaper before storming out.

 That evening Nightwing pays Helena a visit at her apartment. He wants to offer his help but Helena isn’t impressed. She still resents how she was manipulated by Batman during No Man’s Land and isn’t interested in Nightwing’s help. 

 Later that night dressed as the Huntress she visits the apartment of the reporter and finds her dead with two of the Huntress’ crossbow bolts in her chest. The crime must have happened recently but a pounding on the door surprises Huntress. It’s the cops.  As she heads out the window, she can see plenty of cop cars below. 

 She makes her way onto the roof only to find Batman and Nightwing waiting for her. Batman insists she is coming with him and it’s not a choice. Instead of complying she tries to escape. But in the scuffle she accidently shoots Batman with her crossbow. Incensed, Nightwing comes for her full out. Her only chance of escape is to jump off the highrise roof into the Gotham harbor below.

 The fall nearly kills her but who is there to help drag her out of the water but The Question. He says she no longer has any friends in Gotham except for him and he has someone he wants her to meet. Collapsed on the dock, Huntress pitifully ties to be defiant, saying she won’t go anywhere while she can still fight. So The Question kicks her in the head.

The Birds of Prey  are in a new story arc, where a group of evil doers are coming after sin, and we can't have that, now can we?  And Batgirl and Big Barda are on another plot line involving Constatine.  Will Black Canary and Sin be able to survive the ambush in the woods?   Let us know your thoughts about this issue at [email protected]

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Cassandra Cain bumps into some new and old foes.  Her mother, Lady Shiva, communicates to Batgirl that she may not be able to outrun her heritage or...birthright?  This run away train story is filled with action and dialogue which may lead us towards a new turn in the Cassandra mythos. 

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AJ and Tim discuss The Outsiders #17 from 1986, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, stakeouts, Warner Bros cartoons, and Scarface.

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Diane and A.J. talk Justice League: Crises on Infinite Earths.  What did you think about this 3 part story/feature?

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Black Canary 1

Cover date: August 2015

Writer: Brenden Fletcher

Art: Annie Wu

Colorist: Lee Loughridge

Letterer: Steve Wands

Assistant Editor: Dave Wielgosz

Editor: Chris Conroy

Group Editor: Mark Doyle

Title: The Most Dangerous Band in America

Dinah, now calling herself by the initials D.D., has joined a band called Black Canary as their lead singer. The group includes a quasi-manager named Heathcliff, a drummer and all around musician called Lord Byron, a keyboard player named Paloma, and a young mute girl they call Ditto as guitartist.

Unfortunately the Black Canary shows are ending in violence, with Dinah in various fights. One newszine example sites Dinah fighting a group of gunmen. Needless to say, venues are starting to doubt the wisdom of booking the band.

Backstage at the next stop Dinah hesitates, contemplating her bandaged fingers, the tears in her fishnets for a band-aids. However she puts on her boots and strides out on stage.

After the show, Heathcliff tries to get their payment but once again, Dinah has been in a fight, this time with a group of men harassing some women. The venue owner is unhappy, but after spotting Dinah waiting behind her manager, he forks over the money.

On the tour bus en route to their next stop, Lord Byron talks things over with Dinah. Byron tells her how much the record contract they recently signed means to them but that Dinah’s actions risk giving the band a bad name. Plus Byron worries young Ditto couldn’t defend herself if the violence should reach the rest of the band. Dinah is a mystery to her band as well as the public but now Byron asks Dinah to come clean.

Dinah admits she’s lived hard but makes a commitment to end the problems she’s caused. Byron is thrilled when Dinah mentions her Sensei and even more excited when Dinah asks for help with her on stage moves. 

As the band unpacks at the next stop, a mysterious group of three suited individuals watch, talking about finding their target. 

At the sound check, Dinah marvels at the sounds Ditto can evoke from her guitar without help from pedals or electronics.

Backstage before the concert Dinah talks to Heathcliff. He wants to know if this, performing, is really what she wants. Dinah explains she will finish the contract they signed. The money will help rebuild her life, her dojo, her team. Heathcliff asks again if she likes performing. She doesn’t answer, instead stepping out on stage.

Things are going well until Dinah spots the three suited individuals in the crowd. The three transform into inky humanoid alien things. As everyone takes cover, Dinah swings into action, eventually resorting to her Canary Cry to bring the roof down on top of the creatures. Dinah thinks they’re after her, but their ranting make it clear they’re actually after Ditto. The three alien things disappear through the hole in the ceiling.

The band gathers and at first Dinah wants them to disperse while she protects Ditto alone. The band wants to stay together. Dinah says if they are going to do that then they need training, hand to hand first then weapons after that. The rest of the band is a bit stunned.

As the bus travels to the next city, the group has no idea that the three ink humanoid creatures are hanging onto the back of the bus.

The Huntress Podcast is back in 2025 to talk about Helena Bertinelli in Cry For Blood, written by Greg Rucka and brillantly penciled by Rick Burchett.  Issue one begins with a murder mystery where the mob, The Batman and some "in the know" Gumshoe are pointing their "you're the culprit" finger in Helena Bertinelli's direction. 

As we explore Helena's emotional journey, heritage and mystery, please join the conversation by contacting us at [email protected]

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