DC Mercifully Cancels Kelly Thompson’s ‘Birds of Prey’

Comic Book Club Live says the Birds of Prey volume written by Kelly Thompson is being cancelled by the editors:

Birds of Prey is ending at DC Comics with December’s Birds of Prey #28. And while speculation online pointed to the series wrapping up due to writer Kelly Thompson’s schedule, she took to her newsletter to clarify that no, it wasn’t her choice to end the book.

Based on the art sample provided, coupled with how Thompson spoke about Carol Danvers in past years, it wouldn’t be shocking if the run of this volume were as sexless as is strongly hinted, so this won’t be missed. Birds of Prey easily lost influence over 2 decades ago, and the overrated Gail Simone, who helmed it at the time, because just as PC as Thompson is later on. So this isn’t something that’ll be missed, since they ruined Chuck Dixon’s concept for the sake of sex-negative shoddiness. Unfortunately, however:

Though Birds of Prey is done, Thompson isn’t done with the characters — or DC Comics. She teases that she has “something else at DC that’s quite big and that I’m very excited about,” which does indeed involve a couple of characters from Birds of Prey. But she also notes that, versus the cancellation, which was not because of her workload or health, she is behind on submitting her pitch for this project. So its future is TBD — though she is committed to working on it, and with DC further.

Nobody who’s a fan of Black Canary and Oracle need tune in to whatever she regrettably has in store. At this point, considering how BoP was long ruined by these ideologues, it remains to be seen if the series is done for good, because continuing it as they have till now is only prolonging a sad farce, one that also came at Dixon’s expense.

Originally published here