A foe from the future is gunning for Batgirl in Birds of Prey #6
Feb. 9, 2024They’re coming to get you Barbara…
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To recap: Team BOP have infiltrated Themyscira to try and rescue Sin, who has been imprisoned by the Amazons. Unfortunately, in the process of rescuing her, she’s become possessed by the malevolent entity Megaera who is now fighting back against our heroes.
Spoilers for Birds of Prey #6 ahead
The first half of the issue concerns itself with the issue of saving Sin. Unfortunately, it seems like the only way to stop Megaera from ascending to its full power is to kill her. And, for a while, it looks like most of the team - especially Barda andHarley- are kind of OK with that.
As it turns out, however, that’s just a ploy to try and make the creature leave her body, but it doesn’t work. Instead, it seems that Sin and Megaera are fully bonded. “We live together, or we die together,” as the creature says when they come under attack.
That’s not as bad as it might sound. Sin is able to gain control of the situation and uses it to force Megaera into a binding agreement: they will share her body, but Sin will have overall control. The upshot of this is that Sin effectively now has superpowers.
While the rest of the team rally around Sin to show her some love and support,Black Canarymeets with originalBatgirlBarbara Gordon, who is feeling hurt because she wasn’t recruited to be part of the team. Dinah doesn’t explain her thinking, but we find out more when she meets with time traveller Meridian - AKA the grown up"Maps" Mizoguchi.
It turns out that this is not the first time that the team have attempted to save Sin. They tried with Barbara as part of the team, failed, and both Sin and Batgirl were killed. So they went back in time and tried again. And again. And again. In all, it took the team 11 attempts to successfully save Sin - and in each of those loops Barbara died, until Dinah made the call to cut her out of the team completely.
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Why is it Barbara specifically who dies each time? Maps has an answer for that. She believes that someone in the future, with similar time travel tech to her own, is trying to assassinate Batgirl.
So now there’s a new mission for the Birds of Prey: protect Barbara Gordon at all costs, because a world without Batgirl is not one that Dinah wants to live in. And protecting her is going to mean recruiting some new team members…
Birds of Prey #6 is out now from DC
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Will Salmon is the Comics Editor for GamesRadar/Newsarama. He has been writing about comics, film, TV, and music for more than 15 years, which is quite a long time if you stop and think about it. At Future he has previously launched scary movie magazine Horrorville, relaunched Comic Heroes, and has written for every issue of SFX magazine for over a decade. He sometimes feels very old, like Guy Pearce in Prometheus. His music writing has appeared in The Quietus, MOJO, Electronic Sound, Clash, and loads of other places and he runs the micro-label Modern Aviation, which puts out experimental music on cassette tape.
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