Birds of Prey #126 - DC

As with some of the other Batman books, this is the issue before the finale. Yes, next issue will be the final one for this Birds of Prey series. They already have an Oracle mini-series scheduled, but . . we don't yet know what the fate of the rest of these Birds will be after that. Tony Bedard has taken over the scripts for these final issues, and Claude St. Aubin does the art. It's ok, but . . nothing like the past. Luckily, Stephane Roux still does the cover. It looks fantastic. Anyways, this issue focus' on the Calculator. He doesn't really have any super-powers other than his keen analytical mind. He can put information together like nobody's business. Well all of that is going to change this issue. Really, it all comes down to Kilg%re. During his time with the Crime Syndicate, in Platinum Flats, he came to discover the place of Kilg%re source code. Kilg%re is after all a living program. Obviously he'd have to have a back-up should he ever become corrupted. Which is highly unlikely, but you always have to be safe. So anyways, Calculator has to find a way to access this programming which he tricks Kilg%re into doing for him. And he tricks Gizmo into jump-starting a Mother-box for him which he downloads Kilg%re's programming files into. "My portable transmits a rewritten version of the code to seize Kilg%re's body. Which brings us to me, pierced through the heart by a steel tentacle . . . the better to pump custom nanoprocessors throughout my body. The nanites instantly repair the cardiac damage, and that's just the start of it . . . they migrate to my brain, setting up a neural network amid the gray matter . . . cloning Kilg%re's program, adapting it to my brainwaves. Calculator 2.0." Now the Calculator basically has the same powers as Kilg%re so . . he's an even bigger threat to Oracle. At the end of the book he goes through the internet to confront her, and the rest of her team, at the clock-tower. This final issue, I think, is going to be a battle. Right to the very end. Overall, I thought the issue was ok. I'm sorry to think that there's only one issue left, but . . I'm glad that the Calculator has been turned into a legitimate threat. Now, we just have to wait and see where we go from here.