Can someone explain to me why everyone loses their shit over this series? Like ever since it ended, people hold it as the gold standard for a female team-up book, not to mention apparently "the best" portrayal of Barbara.
I think it's pretty good, but aside from every other panel looking like a pin-up, it just kind of feels like any other street-level team book.
Samuel Thomas
That a book starring women was able to feel like a normal street-level team book is the reason why it's applauded. They were allowed to be characters without the constant pandering bullshit.
People got soft in recent years and everything now seems to baby female readers by constantly pointing out that there's some social good for the female character to be a hero. It's a shame we've lost the ability to just tell stories.
Asher Torres
fucking bigot go to hell
Gavin Parker
Mmmmm...Ed Benes Huntress...
John Reyes
Pretty much what said. I came for the fishnets and stayed for the characters.
Aiden Taylor
So basically it's really not much better than most other team-ups, but it gets applauded because they managed to create an above-average ongoing with an all female cast?
Ayden Murphy
It's Gail's second best book after pre-New 52 Secret Six.
Grayson Fisher
Pretty much. It's a fine book, but the double standard is so ridiculous nowadays it gets insane praise
Oliver Lewis
Someones not reading Clean Room
Josiah Young
I could never take anything seriously in BoP thanks to Benes' art. It's hard to get invested in the tension when everyone is dressed like strippers and spends half their time posing like Playboy's shooting.
Liam Davis
The only good thing was Ed Benes art, Simone is just a Lesbian Neocon hack.
Carter Clark
A good female lead book should be able to be read by women and men
Not how Marvel is marketing and writing there female books
Eli Phillips
>Simone is just a Lesbian Neocon
William James
>people hold it as the gold standard for a female team-up book well, got any better examples
Jason Barnes
Gotham City Sirens
Elijah Fisher
>book where the first arc features a plant penis that expldoes its gunk all over Harley and Ivy