When Barbara Gordon got shot by the Joker and paralyzed she stopped being Batgirl and used her computer skills to become Oracle, a hacker who used her skills to and information to help the police and Batman. Then when the miracle surgery came about that allowed her to be Batgirl again she stopped being Oracle. Now, however, someone has taken up to the banner and is selling information to the mob bosses under Oracle's name. This not only gets Barbara's attention it pisses her off.
So, she goes in search of Dinah Drake, the Black Canary who was the face of Oracle when she was it. They were the Birds of Prey. Dinah isn't doing much so she agrees to help. They go after Louis Terroni a mob worker but get waylaid by the Huntress who is after him to kill him for killing her family the Bertinellis. Terronoi dies in his car but not by them.
The next mobster on the list is the head of the family Santos and Barbara and Dinah convince Huntress to work with them not against them. The Huntress knows their secret identities but won't share hers. So they capture Santos and place him in police custody with Barbara's dad Captain Gordon. But there's a mob boss that has been out to kill all the other mob bosses called Fenice and she has sent her snake goons out to kill Santos. The Birds of Prey must protect him but first, they must decide what to do with Oracle whom they have just discovered.
This is a fantastic comic with three ultra-cool characters in it. Barbara Gordon is both the awesome Oracle and the cool Batgirl while Dinah Drake is the excellent Black Canary and the Huntress is as lethal as the arrows she shoots. The three together make a formidable team and with the new Oracle, they can't be stopped. But can they trust Oracle? I really loved this amazing book and give it five out of five stars.
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