Batgirl and the Birds of Prey Vol. 2: Source Code (Rebirth) Paperback – 12 Dec. 2017

Possibly the best Babs arc of Rebirth so far and that is hugely helped by the fact she is almost never focused on. This book has cameos from Green Arrow, Batman, Nightwing, Poison Ivy and Catwoman. So you can see why it would be a fun read.Overall it feels like an early CW show, lots of crossover and focused on taking down meta humans. Really enjoying this book, still not sure about this current take on batgirl.Really can’t get past the feeling shes a teen clone with implanted memories or something. Maybe that’s just me.

In the previous comic, Batgirl brings back the Birds of Prey with the Black Canary and the Huntress in her search for the Oracle, the person who took her moniker and has been giving Intel to mob bosses. There's one main mob boss that seems to be taking over the other rival gangs and her name is Fenice and she turns out to be Huntress's dead mom who is seeking revenge just like Huntress is seeking revenge on those who killed her family, when it turns out her mother set it up, to begin with, to kill off her father. They find out that Oracle is a kid named Gus who is a Batgirl fan who was trying to get her attention and gave away all the money he earned from his illegal deeds. But Gus is talking to someone secretly about the Birds of Prey and a deal they have with him giving the personal info on them for drugs.In the "Blackbird" storyline Dick Grayson, aka Nightwing is saved from an attack by Gemini, a shapeshifter by the Birds of Prey. Apparently, Gemini works for a woman called Blackbird who takes in those with metahuman abilities. So, Black Canary goes undercover as Noir Nightingale to find out what is going on. It seems that Blackbird is sucking the powers of those she trains after she has seen them seek their highest potential leaving them human. She does this with Gemini who agrees to help the Birds of Prey and Nightwing, but Blackbird has sucked the powers of a young man who has hypnosis as power and is using it on Dinah and the others to battle against them while Blackbird has at least six different powers. Will they be able to defeat Blackbird and her metahumans?In "Sourcecode" Barbara tells the Birds that she has been keeping an eye on Gus's transmissions and is aware that he is talking with someone and now that Gus wants them to meet this person. Barbara is very curious as to who it is and has Black Canary and Huntress hang him outside the window of the Clocktower until he spills the beans. It turns out that the Calculator contacted him as soon as he started up as Oracle looking for Oracle but he explained that he wasn't Oracle but that he could get Oracle to come to him. Barbara wiped Calculator's brain clean of who she was and had him believe that Oracle had died. Now Calculator needs their help. Catwoman asked him for the plans to Terracare's security and he gave them to her for a price. Catwoman stole a vial from them that was worth a great deal of money and now they've kidnapped Calculator's family and will kill them if he doesn't get it back but Catwoman doesn't have it she gave it to Poison Ivey who has no intention of giving it back as it is an evil concoction that is killing the bees. Now the Birds of Prey have temporarily expanded to include Catwoman and Poison Ivey as they seek to help save his family yet make the company pay.The Birds of Prey will have to find a way to trust Gus as Oracle after he lied to them even though he had a good reason for doing so. This comic kicked ass with those special appearances by Catwoman and Poison Ivey, and yes, even Nightwing. This is a fabulous series that gets better with each issue as these tough women fight crime and help those in need and learn to lean on each other. I give this amazing book five out of five stars.

Le premier volume avait donné une bonne dynamique, intéressante qui méritait d'être creusé, c'est ce que ce second volume se charge de faire, le trio Barbara, Dinah et Helena fonctionne à merveille, la véritable force de ce volume 2 est l'intégration de beaucoup de personnages du Bat-univers sans que cela fasse forcer. Nightwing est intégré de façon organique à l'escouade et sur la fin Poison Ivy et Catwoman viennent, chacune avec leur raison propre, intégrer l'histoire.La menace sans être follement originale est bien dépeinte et crédible vis à vis de cet univers où le mec ou la nana moyenne se retrouve affublé d'un pouvoir qui peut être plus ou moins important. La menace de ce récit intègre bien cela et joue dessus. Les dessins collent à l'ambiance est aucun des personnages semblent sur ou sous-exploité. En bref un superbe comics dont il me réjouit d'en lire plus à l'avenir !

A great fun action mystery graphic novel. Fantastic story, plenty of characters and great artworks. Recommended for light readers.

**Need To Know, Before Reading**Prior to this Vol. 2 title, you should know that Dick Grayson worked for a company called Spyral, where he met a woman named Helena Bertinelli (The Huntress.) The two worked together for quite a while, and formed quite the connection along the way. I took the time to mention this, because the book references it quite a few times, and readers who missed out on the Grayson series might not understand the love triangle. Now with that out of the way, let’s get into it.Review:Story: The story revolves around a character you might be familiar with— Roulette. She pits meta-humans against meta-humans. And who’s the only meta on the team up for the job? — Black Canary! But there’s more. Roulette is working with a meta-human who plans to absorb the powers from any meta-human she can get her hands on. But who is this villain? Batgirl and the Birds of Prey are going to find out!The story is was very well written. Black Canary definitely gets the spotlight here, with special guests - Green Arrow, and Nightwing.

After a slowish first Volume the second Volume in Batgirl and the Birds of Prey is indeed a better read.