Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   I love comic books and when I have the time I love to sit down and grab up a stack of comics to read. Here are three graphic novels that I enjoyed recently. Maybe I will inspire you to pick up some comics and graphic novels to add to your reading adventures.   Birds of Prey is a twenty-two issue series written by Julie Benson, Shawna Benson, and features art from talented artists, such as Claire Rowe. It was published by DC Comics in single issue format from 2016-2018 as part of DC's Rebirth initiative. Taking from decades of stories and variant teams, the Writers Benson bring to the forefront a series filled with action and adventure.     Helena Bertinelli was free from Spyral and had returned to her vendetta as the Huntress. Dinah Lance had quit the band Black Canary, but had remained as their security. And Barbara Gordon had left Burnside to travel the world to hone her skills with masters of martial ar...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   The eff ects of the return of t he Pre-Flashpoint Superman w ere just the beginning. Elsewhere in t he New 52 Universe, the tales of one woman's journey away from the super hero game began kicking and screaming. And the broken memories of the former Teen Titans were triggered when a deadly fo e from the past returned. Highlighted areas denote my review links. Black Canary: Songs for Broken Gods and Superwomen       You don't become a mem ber of Barabara Gordon's super-group for nothin g. Former Bird of Prey Dinah Lance had gone through quite a lot in a short perio d of time. It all culminated to a fight with Batgirl, and the loss of all of her crime fighting equipment in a major fire. Confronting Gordon and helping her with removing a danger ous AI from the world (Batgirl #35-40), Dinah part ed ways amicably from her former team mate. In a daring twelve issue series of her own by writer, Bren...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons ,   DC Comics Rebirth b egan this past Summer, and it has taken   the   comics industry by storm.   T op-selling titles are revitalizing Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman, and other heroes . An new and old readers are being treated to the storytelling   of old,   hearkening back to the   Silver Age . But to get here, DC Comics needed to begin to sort out decades of stor ies and reboo ts to figure out how   the Rebirth   initiative   would play out.   In an   unprecedented   move by writers and artists, DC Co mics began to weave a new and cohesive comics universe that acknowledge d almost every story   told in the past seventy-plus years. But first, an old friend needed to return.          Here are several storyli nes that paved   the   way to DC Universe Rebirth. Highlighted sections are linked to my reviews of these ev...