Another long day ahead, joy.
Sounds like the Birds of Prey TV show has been cancelled, which isn't a big surprise.
The original premise of the comic book was that the mysterious Oracle (whom the readers knew the identity of, but no one else did) guided Black Canary on international missions where pure superheroics wouldn't work, but something more than standard channels was needed. It was interesting, exciting, and had the drama of "when will Black Canary and Oracle meet?"
The TV show turned that into "Three gals and a watchtower" and turned the crime into local problems. Lower budget, but not nearly as interesting. In fact, not terribly interesting at all. It also borrowed the concept of "us against them" from X-Men, a thing that is pretty much completely absent in the DCU, and made it a major plot-point. And that whole "half-metahuman" thing? HELLO, you are either a metahuman or you aren't!
In reality, the show and the comic had nothing in common except for a character named Oracle who lives in a watchtower. And sadly, as cool as Oracle is, she isn't enough to carry a show.
In other, more cheerful, news, the DC Solicits for February books are now up (for the uninitiated who might be reading this, comic book companies solicit previews for their books two months in advance, and comic fans on the web get access to those previews about a week earlier). New Aquaman! Last issue of Titans! And not a lot else that completely thrills me.
Well, that's not precisely true. I like a lot of DC books. But Aquaman is the book that keeps me coming back. Good thing DC is publishing it again.
Other books of interest to me include a new Elseworld two-parter, more with the Silver Age Supergirl colliding with the current one (including a Crisis-inspired cover), and the long-awaited return of Astro City!
Tomorrow is new comics day, and I'll definitely have a couple of reviews up before evening. There's a lot coming, so I won't finish in one day unless I somehow get tomorrow off. Stranger things have happened...
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