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Birds of Prey: Issue 20       Released: April 2, 2025 

Writer: Kelly Thompson      Art: Sami Basri with Vicente Cifuentes    Colors: Adriano Lucas  

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

Title: On the Run Part 1

In Gotham, Batgirl Cassandra Cain is investigating an apartment crime scene littered with clues. She bumps into Batman who agrees the crime scene belongs to the Birds of Prey.

Back at the Birds’ Headquarters, Oracle attempts to go through all the evidence. The group knows this is all a trap of some sort but there needs to be several in person investigations to solve what has happened and how it relates to a stolen experimental drug. They split up.

That night in Gotham, Sin and Batgirl are on a stakeout. Sin is excited and apologizes for being a lot to put up with. Batgirl reassures her. They are a lot alike, trained to be weapons, bad people always want them. However they both are different inside and it’s good. Sin gives her a hug.

Meanwhile, Barda drops off Dinah in Tokyo. She makes her way down from the roof into a large theater where a demonstration of a new invisibility suit is underway. Dinah is shocked at how effective it is, Oracle calls it an industry game changer.

Barda has boom tubed into United Arab Emirates and a small town that appears deserted. She investigates a strange nearby skyscraper. Although it has power, it too is empty. After getting into the penthouse she hears someone from the air ducts call out to her. 

Back in Gotham, Sin and Bargirl are curious when their target leaves a club only to descend into the sewers. They carefully follow. 

Barda reaches up to the grate of the air duct when tendrils of black slice down upon her. She drops her Megarod. The inky creature quickly heads for it. The room tilts as an alarm sounds. Barda’s Megarod falls out the window with the ink creature. It grabs it and turns into a woman with glider wings. Barda is too busy to notice as the entire penthouse is launched into space.

Oracle is trying to get feedback from Black Canary as Barda’s intermittent communicator signal comes through. Oracle tells Barda all the Birds are under attack. Barda says she’s in space, right before she discovers a bomb's onboard. It goes off with a huge boom and the ship explodes.

Oracle frantically announces: “All Teams. This is a code black. Barda is down. I repeat, code black. Barda is down”.   Elsewhere a shadowy figures looks at pictures of the Birds saying “one down, four to go.”

AJ and Tim with special guest Clinton Robison celebrate #JSApril by discussing The Outsiders Special #1 “From Here to Infinity” and Infinity Inc Special #1 “Siding with the Outsiders”.

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Closing music: One Direction - Infinity

The Huntress Podcast is celebrating #JSApril by discussing Geoff John's Justice Society of America Annual #1 and Justice Society of America #20.  Artist Jerry Ordway, Dale Eaglesham and Alex Ross brings this modern cautionary tale to life with action, legacy, temptation and triumph.  From Magog to Gog, the JSA faces a foe who can grant each one of them their heart's desire, but of course, there is always a catch.  The JSA is split in half, divided by the issue is Gog GOOD or a false idol.  Time travel and false narrative wish fullfillment are involved as well.  We at the Huntress Podcast are truly honored to be custodians of this story during JSApril.  Please share your thoughts about this epic arc with us at feathersandfoes@gmail.com or www.thehuntresspodcast.com

Please check out the other coverage of JSApril at www.fireandwaterpodcast.com/jsapril

The Huntress Podcast is back to talk about Batman: Huntress Cry For Blood 3, where the creators of this story stop, slow things down, and analyze the true struggle and pain of Helena Bertinelli.  Contact us at www.thehuntresspodcast.com feathersandfoes@gmail.com

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Huntress: Cry for Blood 3

Cover Date: August 2000

Writer: Greg Rucka

Artist: Rick Burchett

Colorist: Tatjana Wood with Seperations by Jamison

Letterer: Clem Robins

Associate Editor: Joseph Illidge

Editor: Dennis O’Neil

So Much To Learn, If She Is To Survive

Helena awakens in a cabin in Canada where a man introducing himself as Richard Dragon offers her tea and is repairing her Huntress costume. He says The Butterfly brought her to him. We can only assume he means the Question, who after all is the one that kicked her in the head last issue. Helena gets frustrated and threatens Richard before Vic Sage comes in. He comments that Helena’s anger is like looking in a mirror.

“We’ve come to know the world through violence and rage. We wear masks to hide from ourselves as much as others.” Then he reveals he is the Question and formally introduces himself to her. She quietly does the same.

Meanwhile in Gotham, Tim Drake/Robin is meeting with Barbara Gordon aka Oracle. Tim doesn’t believe the Huntress is the killer; it’s too sloppy and she’s too smart for this. Barbara is skeptical but Tim insists they have to learn the truth. 

Back at the cabin, Vic explains that Richard can teach Helena how to live, not just how to not die. Vic understands how isolated Helena is and that if she returns to Gotham now, she’ll soon be dead or be forced to kill. Leaving her to think, Vic tells Richard he’s returning to Gotham - he’s got some questions.

In Gotham, Tim returns to Barbara with newspaper clippings from Helena’s past. They acknowledge that while Helena and Bruce both lost their parents at 8, in Helena’s case all the Bertinelli’s in the city were systematically eliminated, whether they were in the mafia or not. The real question is why and why Helena was left alive.

Helena is doing Tai Chi with Richard. He explains, “Passion and rage as fuel. Fear and vengeance as destination. And the faster you move, the more your past drags at you, the more of you that breaks away.” She needs to remember to breathe.

As Helena trains she acknowledges to herself that she lost her breath long ago, She’s been running scared her whole life, trampling anyone or anything that gets in her way. But blood cries for blood and her family’s is calling for her. How dare she refuse that?

Later inspecting her costume, she tells Richard how the Huntress scares her. He says she should, that Huntress is a killer. But also that Helena no longer needs to don the mask, to be someone else. She already is the Huntress.

Vic finally returns to take Helena back to Gotham. She seems calmer and more at peace. As the two walk down the mountain, Vic lets her know he stopped by Helena’s apartment to help out with bills and chores and noticed it’s being watched.  She’s not surprised.

As they sit at a little town’s bus stop, Vic asks her to tell the story of how she became the Huntress. Helena says: “It started in Sicily…”

AJ and Tim discuss The Outsiders #19 from 1987, “The Winds of Change”, pink elephants, blueprints, and double teaming.

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Closing music: Scorpions - Wind Of Change

The Huntress Podcast is back to talk about the Wonder Woman #296 back up story, The Huntress is Back in Town, where the Joey Cavalieri and Paul Levitz story places Helena in a more gritty, urban backdrop with brillant artwork with the can't lose team up of Joe Staton and Jerry Ordway.  Knives, drugs and graffiti sets the scene as our returning characters, Helena, love interest Harry and others try to take on crime while still trying to stay inbounds of the law.  

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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 feathersandfoes@gmail.com

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Feathers and Foes are back to talk about the Kelly Thompson banger! Write to us at feathersandfoes@gmail.com 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

.  What do you think of this run so far?

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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.