This was a bit of a sad story. The Birds are finally memorializing Big Barda. There's a funeral, and all, but Lady Blackhawk decides she's going to remember her in her own way. She starts out by painting the town red. She feels, I think, that you can't celebrate someone, unless you fully grab ahold of the life they lead. After that she wants to go to Pancho's Bar. It's a bar near Edwards Air-force Base in California. What she doesn't know is that there's some people that are trying to get to her. Calculator has hired False-Face and White Star to take her out of the picture. I think he's calculated . . pun intended . . that Lady Blackhawk is associated with his nemesis, Oracle. So he wants White Star to take her out, and then False-Face to take her place. That would put one of his operatives directly in the lap of Oracle. But even drunk, the Lady proves to be a little more than both of them can handle. But even with all of this going on, the Lady still completes her mission, to reach the bar and put a picture of Barda up on the wall of Fallen Heroes. "Here's to Big Barda . . . the ass-kickin'est gal to ever cover my six! And for the rest of ya: "May you live as long as you want, and want to as long as you live!"" I thought it was a nice way to wrap up the previous story-arc. So next issue we can begin a new chapter. I was really worried about this book after Gail Simone left, but, it seems to be in more than capable hands with Tony Bedard.
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