oh girl you got me on the prowl

[redbrunja]

Fandom Tennis Match Meme:

Okay, here's how this is going to work. You comment with a fandom question. I answer it and then ask you a question that has some thematic relevance to the question you asked me.

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[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Too hard to pick? There are a bunch of them, so top 3 or 5 or whatever would work too.

(unless that's not what you meant? I have a very defective sarcasm detector.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

That is totally what I meant. And for me, when i hear Birds of Prey, I think Helena Bertinelli, Oracle, and Black Canary. Black Canary and Oracle are both characters I love and feel really protective of after the bullshit that they've gone through at the hands of various writes BUT i also really like Helena and she had SUCH A SOLID book (it's actually on my best books of 2013) so part of me is tempted to pick her.

For you: favorite (canon) superhero team up.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Those are definitely solid BoP picks. I'm sad because my library doesn't have ANY of the old Birds of Prey, so I have only read a few issues of it, and Dinah especially I hardly know at all. (I have read the first two volumes of the reboot series, which started off great and then kind of spiraled downward.)

That's a hard one! I think my favorite is Batgirls & Robins in general, and maybe baby Dick and Babs in particular, by a very narrow margin.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I've like what I've seen of Dinah, and what's really struck me about her is how EASY she seems to be to do right and how badly live action has handled her character.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

How so?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Dinah is a smart, funny, master martial artist who is sometimes dating/married to Green Arrow. Birds of Prey made her an inept, teenage psychic, Arrow fumbled around for an entire season before finally managing to get a version of her correct (even though the names are different), and I feel like there was another example of live action doing very badly with her character.

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Birds of Prey made her an inept, teenage psychic
That does seem like a pretty epic fumble.