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Batgirl #10:

Some sibling drama in this issue and a little bit of backstory on Tenji, Cass's recently-revealed brother. Cass is not happy about having to share her mother with someone else (relateable older sibling experience, honestly).

Birds of Prey #24:

Hail, hail, the gang's all here! The Birds launch their rescue-Barda plan and face down the Shadow Army. It was fun getting to see Birds from previous arcs come back for an issue (even though big casts mean you don't get a lot of time to focus on individual characters much).

Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #1:

Gory and a little horny about it. (Gory for a mainline DC rogue story, anyway, so not really that gory). This first issue was mainly character work for Jade and Barbara and set-up for the premise of the whole series: what they're stealing. I'm excited for what comes next, but I do wish there was a little more meat to this first issue. (Ha! Meat. Maybe not the same kind of meat that Cheetah was eating.)

Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch #5:

Final issue! Three stories in this one, all of them with the same Juni Ba humor and wit. I liked the stories in this issue, though none of them were my favorites from this 5-issue run; that honor goes to the entertaining and meta Batman-and-Robin parody in issue #1 and the vacationing family in issue #4. Still, I think the things Ba had to say in these stories were once again thought-provoking and funny, and I highly reccommend picking up the trade paperback when it comes out in October if you can't get your hands on the individual issues now.

Notes:

I'm quite annoyed with my comic book store. I still haven't gotten Birds of Prey #23 and it's been a month. I had to read the issue online. It will be very irritating if they don't get it in and I'm missing one comic out of the whole run, since I've been subscribed since the series started. I'll have to track down the issue and buy it online somewhere, likely at a premium, and then pay shipping on top of that. To be fair, it's not entirely the comic store's fault; they said they ordered it and it just didn't come. The interesting thing is that Batgirl #9 also didn't come in that week, but they reordered it and it has since arrived.(Side note: Two female-character led titles didn't arrive on time? I [jokingly] cry sexism!) I suspect this is once again my nemesis Lunar Distribution playing mind games with me. The store blamed Diamond's bankruptcy, which is a convenient excuse. Surely it's far more likely that Lunar Distibution hates me personally.

Oh well. It gets here when it gets here.