Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Oracle The Cure by Tony Bedard Oracle The Cure TPB (2010 DC) comic books. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st printing. Collects Oracle: The Cure (2009) #1-3 and Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #126-127. Written by Kevin VanHook and Tony Bedard. Art by Fernando Pasarin, Julian Lopez, Claude St. Aubin, Bit and John Floyd. Cover by Guillem March. Barbara Gordon discovers a new path. Softcover, 128 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99. Customer Testimonials Our customers have some nice things to say about us: Customer Testimonials Mailing List Join our Mailing List for news and sales. We’ve been selling comics since 1961 (our first sale: Fantastic Four #1 at $0.25, see one of our first ads) and on the web since 1996. Copyright © 1996 - 2021 Lone Star Comics Inc. Character images copyright © their respective owners. Comic books in 'Birds of Prey Series 1 Collection' This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st Edition - Volume 2 - 1st printing. "Officer Down!" Collects Batman (1940-2011) #587, Robin (1993-2009) #86, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #27 and 29 Catwoman (1993-2001 2nd Series) #90, Nightwing (1996-2009) #53, Detective Comics (1937-2011 1st Series) #754, and Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #13. By Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, Chuck Dixon, Bronwyn Carlton, Devin Grayson, Nunzio DeFilippis, Rick Burchett, Jacob and Arnold Pander, R. Steven Harris, Mike Lilly, and Mike Collins. Commissioner Gordon's been shot! Softcover, 168 pages, full color. Cover price $12.95. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st Edition - Volume 2 - 2nd and later printings. "Officer Down!" Collects Batman (1940-2011) #587, Robin (1993-2009) #86, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #27 and 29 Catwoman (1993-2001 2nd Series) #90, Nightwing (1996-2009) #53, Detective Comics (1937-2011 1st Series) #754, and Batman: Gotham Knights (2000-2006) #13. By Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, Chuck Dixon, Bronwyn Carlton, Devin Grayson, Nunzio DeFilippis, Rick Burchett, Jacob & Arnold Pander, R. Steven Harris, Mike Lilly, & Mike Collins. Commissioner Gordon's been shot! Softcover, 168 pages, full color. Cover price $12.95. 1st printing. Collects NIGHTWING (1996-2009) #41-46 and BIRDS OF PREY (1999-2009) #20-21. Written by Chuck Dixon. Art by Greg Land, Patrick Zircher, Butch Guice, and Drew Geraci. Blockbuster, Blüdhaven's deadliest crime boss, is on a rampage. A mysterious hacker has made Blockbuster's life difficult for far too long. It's time for Nightwing ? with the help of the Birds of Prey ? to hunt this person down and terminate this hacker's actions once and for all, at whatever cost. And that hacker is Oracle! The chase is on in this collection written by Chuck Dixon (BATGIRL: YEAR ONE), with art by Greg Land (Sojourn, NIGHTWING), Patrick Zircher (NIGHTWING, Thunderbolts), Butch Guice (BIRDS OF PREY, Ruse), and Drew Geraci (NIGHTWING). While Nightwing desperately tries to rein in the unstable vigilante Nite-Wing, his daytime counterpart Dick Grayson graduates to a street cop. Meanwhile, Blockbuster's thirst for vengeance against Oracle has him sending some of the deadliest assassins after the hacker. When the crime boss captures Nightwing, will our hero be tortured into revealing Oracle's location? Softcover, 192 pages, full color. Cover price $14.99. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st printing. Collects Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #63-68. Written by Gail Simone. Art by Ed Benes, Alex Lei, Michael Golden, Joe Bennett, and Cliff Richards. Cover by Greg Land. There's trouble brewing for the Birds in this thrilling new trade paperback featuring guest appearances by a host of DCU heroines and villainesses! Lady Shiva makes Black Canary an offer that could change the course of her life! Hardcover, 176 pages, full color. Cover price $17.95. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 1st printing. Collects Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey (1996), Birds of Prey: Manhunt (1996) and Revolution (1997), and the BIRDS story from Showcase '96 (1996) #3. Written by Chuck Dixon and Jordan B. Gorfinkel. Art by Gary Frank, Matt Haley, Stefano Raffaele, Jennifer Graves, John Dell, Bob McLeod, Wade von Grawbadger, Cam Smith, Stan Woch, and John Lowe. Cover by Matt Haley and Wade von Grawbadger. Some siuations just require a woman's touch. Former Batgirl, Barbara Gordon becomes Oracle and teams up with Black Canary and Huntress to tackle crime on a global level. Softcover, 208 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99. This item is not in stock. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. 2nd and later printings. NOTE: Covers on reprints may vary. Collects Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey (1996), Birds of Prey: Manhunt (1996) and Revolution (1997), and the BIRDS story from Showcase '96 (1996) #3. Written by Chuck Dixon and Jordan B. Gorfinkel. Art by Gary Frank, Matt Haley, Stefano Raffaele, Jennifer Graves, John Dell, Bob McLeod, Wade von Grawbadger, Cam Smith, Stan Woch, and John Lowe. Cover by Matt Haley and Wade von Grawbadger. Some siuations just require a woman's touch. Former Batgirl, Barbara Gordon becomes Oracle and teams up with Black Canary and Huntress to tackle crime on a global level. Softcover, 208 pages, full color. Cover price $17.99. Birds of Prey Fly Once More. Recently cancelled series returns to the Batman family. Well that was quick, wasn't it? About one year ago, Birds of Prey shipped its final issue. The series, written over the years by Gail Simone, Sean McKeever, Tony Bedard and Chuck Dixon, was "replaced" by the Oracle: The Cure mini-series as various Batman pieces were moved around the board as part of the "Battle for the Cowl" revamp of the Dark Knight's franchise. Here we are a year later. Just as Bruce Wayne is set to make his return, so will Oracle's team. Gail Simone is returning to the series this April, and she's bringing Ed Benes with her. "I think we have some really surprising stuff coming up. even if you've read every previous Bop issue multiple times," Simone told Comics Alliance in an interview. "I think you're going to really feel the ground shift a little with this. It's going to be a blast. It's Black Canary putting her boot in bad guys' faces and the Huntress taking no *&^% from anyone and Oracle being smarter than anyone else in Gotham. That's what I loved about the book in the first place." Oh, and don't be worried that Simone, who previously worked on the series for over four years, is going anywhere anytime soon: "I don't plan to let go this time. I left the book in good hands with some very talented people and they did swell work and all, but I'll personally bite anyone who tries to take this book in the face." Have you read Birds of Prey [2010]? Stay tuned to IGN for all the latest on DC's 2010 plans. They certainly seem to be on a roll with these announcements, don't they? Oracle Heads To Gotham. Kevin VanHook discusses bringing Barbara Gordon back to Gotham and an adventure that takes her around the globe. IGN tracked down writer Kevin VanHook for a quick chat about his plans for the Birds of Prey mastermind. With the subtitle "The Cure" being tossed around for the series, many are wondering just what VanHook, and DC, have in mind for the former Batgirl. Here are some early details. The first issue hits stores this Wednesday, March 25. IGN Comics: To start off, how did you get involved with Oracle: The Cure? VanHook: I had done some writing for DC Comics almost two years ago, and because I'm a filmmaker who has largely been known for horror stuff the last couple of years after coming out of comics originally, DC and I started kicking around the idea of me doing something in the horror genre. So I did a Superman and Batman versus Vampires and Werewolves miniseries, and the reaction was really strong. Then when I was talking to Dan DiDio about what else we might be able to get in trouble together with, he brought up Oracle. And it was primarily because I'm a computer geek as well. Just coincidentally we were talking about some of the other projects I was doing in visual effects, and Dan asked how much I knew about that stuff. I told him it was kind of a nerdy hobby of mine, and they had in mind that they had a story that would really deal with hacking and really deal with a kind of cyberpunk approach to certain things with Oracle. So that's how it came to happen. Have you read Oracle: The Cure? IGN Comics: The miniseries builds off of elements from Final Crisis and coincides with Battle for the Cowl. Was it daunting at all to dive right into the deep end of the pool and deal with two of the biggest DC events in the last couple years? VanHook: It was and it wasn't. It was one of those things where there were conversations early on where I was told this is the extent it has to tie into Final Crisis, and because of when I started it, it was more along the lines of these are the kinds things that we plan on happening in the backdrop during Battle for the Cowl. So I was able to touch on things as I was plotting, and it was actually kind of nice and lucky to some degree because some of what I was doing was connected to the exact same kind of stuff that was going on in another book over here. I'd check out the script and get on the same page even with some stuff that I wasn't necessarily aware of what they were doing. And then specifically, obviously the elements that had to tie into things directly, that was more of a concern for me because I'm not a big continuity freak, and I wanted to make sure that if I was saying something in one book it didn't contradict something that somebody else was doing. IGN Comics: For the continuity stuff, did you rely mostly on your editor for guidance? Did you have any interaction with the other writers? VanHook: Mostly with my situation, there were definitely conversations with Mike Marts, and even more so with my editor Mike Siglain, who's also in the Bat group. Mike was kind enough to do things like basically run interference for me and take my script and then put it through the pipeline so that anyone that would be affected by it would be aware of what I was doing and then pool their notes so that I was getting notes from a central source. Which is just the perfect way to do it. Obviously, it's great to have interaction with the other guys on a one-on-one basis as well. But this way, you're not running into any miscommunication. IGN Comics: Keeping on the topic of continuity, the series stars Oracle and Calculator, who have had a heated rivalry going back all the way to the days of Infinite Crisis. Did you have to do much research before tackling this latest confrontation? VanHook: There's been a bit of research with that, and also dealing with reading the last several issues of Birds of Prey. Fortunately, one of my old friends, Tony Bedard, had written the last run on that book. We worked together at Valiant. He started off as our intern and then became one of our writers and eventually Executive Editor. So he took my job there, and when I left he was the guy I handpicked to do this. So that was fun, running with some of the stuff he had set up in Birds of Prey. Once it was decided that I was going to do Oracle, I got the call asking if I could write her origin in six pages for the Origins and Omens backup entry that was running in Birds of Prey. So that caused another round of research. It's one thing to say, "write an origin," and it's another to say, "do it in six pages." And then it is yet another thing to say, "we want to cover Barbara Gordon the college girl to Batgirl to Oracle through the Killing Joke's ramifications…oh, and by the way, the first and last pages are not really about her." [laughs] But it was fun, and it was a great learning experience. There were basic points I wanted to cover, but there were little things that, even though we didn't mention it in detail, we used art references of her first adventure and things like that to kind of tie into it more specifically. IGN Comics: Barbara Gordon is one of the few – if not the only – superhero characters to undergo two distinct metamorphoses or origins. She molded herself into Batgirl, and then later overcame her paralysis to mold herself into something arguably far more formidable than Batgirl in Oracle. How are you dealing with those two distinct sides of the character? VanHook: Through my series I have her in a very dark place. One of the things that I had touched upon in the Origins and Omens backup was the fact that while it's not necessarily visible to the outside world, she's been brewing about a lot of these things that happened to her and how her life has gone for some time. It's not a pity thing or anything like that. It's that she's going to use that anger and frustration over the loss of the use of her legs among other things to propel her forward. So my character is definitely a kick-ass chick who is very surly. The storyline takes her globetrotting, so I have her in Hong Kong and dealing with an international hacker community and things like that. I'm also going to be showing just how smart she is. IGN Comics: Will we see any specific inciting incident that pushes Barbara on this journey of self-discovery, or will you be working under the premise that her angst has been living beneath the surface all along? VanHook: Well I'm working with the idea that it has been under the surface, but the idea too is that it's part of what motivated her to fold up shop in California with the Birds of Prey and move back to Gotham. And now with this sort of dark backdrop of what's going on with Batman, that's also something that I'm playing into quite a bit and sort of setting the tone. Because things will be coming out of this that'll have ramifications across all the Bat-books for the rest of the year. So I really want to get her into a certain place, and so far that's working really well. The art's been phenomenal, and I can't complain at all. IGN Comics: Is Don Kramer still handling the art? VanHook: Don ended up not penciling due to a scheduling conflict at the last minute. We had a strong amount of stuff done by Julian Lopez, and the rest has been by Fernando Pasarin, who did the Origins and Omens back-up with me. And he's just phenomenal. The artwork all around has been great stuff. IGN Comics: Being a filmmaker, you're obviously a visually oriented writer. How do you go about the scripting process? Do you meticulously detail how you want each panel to look, or do you give the artist some freedom to visually interpret your script? VanHook: I'm pretty specific about my scripts. I write a full script, so it's panel-by-panel description. That said, Fernando and I have had some back and forth because he's asking for a few insert shots and things like that for clarity. Obviously, I want to make sure I get out of his way because he's really good. But yeah, I do tend to have very specific views on how to tell a story, because I used to draw comics as well. It's one of those things where as I'm writing it, I'm picturing the whole thing. And obviously everyone is going to draw it differently and hopefully better than I would, and I want to make sure I get out of the way when I can. It also comes from being a film director there's a tendency on my part to say, "well if this is what I'm going for, then this is what I want to try and get." But so far I've not been let down at all by any of these guys. Tom Mandrake took a little more liberty with stuff like angles than what I had wrote [for Superman and Batman vs. Vampires and Werewolves], but he in each case always surpassed what I had in my head. IGN Comics: Getting back to the plot of the series a bit, what kind of an impact will Batman's disappearance have on Oracle? They've had a rocky relationship in recent years, so how does she react to Batman's absence as your series begins? VanHook: She has set up a wall around herself in a lot of ways. When we find her on the first few pages of Oracle #1, people in her life are trying to reach her. People like Black Canary and Nightwing and so forth. Because of what's going on, they're specifically concerned with why she's back in Gotham. Her father is looking for her. We get across the idea that she's gone inside a little bit, and she's really not there. She's starting to live much more in the hacker world. It's like trying to have a conversation with somebody who's just not really paying attention. She's got her own stuff going on in her head. We see it when we're outside in Gotham and we see the smoke and fires in the distance and hear comments that let the reader know the city is in turmoil. IGN Comics: How about the Calculator? Over the years he's been a fun character, and although he's always been Oracle's adversary, he's been painted with certain shades of gray over the years. From the solicits we know he's trying to save his daughter with his latest scheme. Are you taking a more sympathetic look at the character, or will see him more as a full-blown villain? VanHook: It's interesting, because in terms of the Calculator, I think I've created a very sympathetic view of the character in terms of his daughter. At the same time, while the ends might justify the means, he's doing some pretty nasty stuff and there are some people who are dying along the way because of what he's doing. And he's not the least bit remorseful about that stuff. I am showing him and Barbara to be worthy adversaries in the sense that they're both incredibly bright people. I'm also dealing with certain practical applications, because I am into the computer side of this, and I'm dealing with what he really needs to do for what he's setting out to accomplish. He's using guile and trickery to get control of massive amounts of computing power in order to be able to pull off his search. IGN Comics: When dealing heavily with hacking and computers, did you find it difficult at all to dramatize or visually represent what's happening when they're essentially just sitting in front of a screen? VanHook: It would be normally, but I think we pull it off really well. It is one of those things where I'm showing an external representation of an internal act. And without giving a whole lot away, I've tied everything into an original online gaming world that we've established. So a lot of what I'm dealing with there takes place in that environment with avatars. IGN Comics: Anything else you want to say about the series? VanHook: I think one of the things I'm most proud about is, because it is this little isolated story that's not part of an ongoing series like Birds of Prey, I was able to deal with the reality of being in a chair. I was able to deal with the reality of having lost the use of her legs. One of the best compliments I've got has come from some of the higher ups at DC that just really enjoyed seeing that I actually acknowledged that. It's not the kind of thing you can take a moment and remind the reader about when you're writing an ongoing adventure series. But in this environment, I always take the approach that it will be somebody's first book, and I really want to explain who she is and what she is about. Because of where I am taking her psychologically, I wanted to make sure we got a sense of what she's going through. Even touching on things like phantom pain and things like that, which has to be pretty maddening for somebody who has soared over rooftops. To be trapped in a chair and feel the pain that she shouldn't possibly feel. IGN Comics: Is the entire story set in the present? VanHook: It's entirely set in the present. As these two adversaries are trying to go after essentially the same thing for different reasons, the narrative takes us through this game world, and it takes us through the fact that in the aftermath of Final Crisis the Internet is in shambles. So she does a very logical thing to try and figure out where these pieces are of what she's searching for. But it ends up taking her to Hong Kong and some other far off places to try and get there. IGN Comics: Thanks for taking the time, Kevin. I look forward to reading the miniseries. Oracle: The Cure by Tony Bedard. The first solo appearance and a run of backup adventures of the Huntress - the daughter of Earth-Two Batman and Catwoman - are finally collected in this special volume featuring a stunning cover by Brian Bolland! These are the 1970s stories that first introduced the Huntress: daughter of Batman and Catwoman of Earth-2! But after her mother is murdered, Helena dons a costume of her own. Learn what led young Helena Bertinelli away from a life in organized crime and set her on the path to becoming a Gotham City vigilante in this volume collecting the 6-issue miniseries! DC celebrates the 80-year history of Batman's greatest foe, The Joker! It's the best of the Clown Prince of Crime! In these adventures from his 9-issue 1970s solo series, The Joker faces villains including Two-Face, Lex Luthor, the Scarecrow and Catwoman, and battles heroes like The Creeper and Green Arrow. After having his face sliced off one year ago, The Joker makes his horrifying return in this new epic that stars Batman's network of crimefighting allies! While The Joker threatens the existence of Gotham City, these heroes-and villains-must find a way to survive. After having his face sliced off one year ago, The Joker makes his horrifying return in this new epic that stars Batman's network of crimefighting allies! While The Joker threatens the existence of Gotham City, these heroes-and villains-must find a way to survive. The award-winning creative team behind Batman: Damned, Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, present one of the most chilling Joker stories ever told, now in a Deluxe edition. Gotham City is overrun by Jokerized victims, and The Joker himself is prowling the streets. Even as Batman confronts the Clown Prince of Crime, ordinary citizens and Arkham inmates must confront the mark The Joker has left on the city and themselves. Is anyone truly safe? Gotham City is overrun by Jokerized victims, and The Joker himself is prowling the streets. Even as Batman confronts the Clown Prince of Crime, ordinary citizens and Arkham inmates must confront the mark The Joker has left on the city and themselves. Is anyone truly safe? In the all-new, hardcover original graphic novel JOKER, writer Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS) and artist Lee Bermejo (HELLBLAZER covers) - the creative team behind the acclaimed miniseries LEX LUTHOR: MAN OF STEEL - show an even darker and more disturbing side to the most dangerous man in Gotham: The Joker. They don't call him the Crown Prince of Crime for nothing! Just in time for the upcoming Warner Bros. movie Joker, DC serves up a new helping of The Joker's best capers! The Eisner-nominated creative team of writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino (Green Arrow, Gideon Falls) reunite for a psychological horror story that delves into the bottomless insanity of The Joker. The Joker's greatest tales from the 1970s are collected in one massive hardcover featuring appearances by Batman, Robin, Catwoman and many more! From writer Brian Azzarello and artist Lee Bermejo, the team behind the best-selling BATMAN: DAMNED, JOKER tells the story of one very dark night in Gotham City-a harrowing night of revenge, murder and crime as only The Joker can deliver it, as he brutally takes back his stolen assets from the Penguin, the Riddler, Two-Face, Killer Croc and others.