Sin @ Cass: So... I think my mom-mentor is fucking your mom-mentor..

Cass: your mom-mentor has been fucking my mom-mentor since the 90s. And my actual mother too.

Dinah Lance/Black Canary & Sin Lance | Birds Of Prey v5 (2023) #03

Big Barda and Batgirl's training school for girl gods Birds of Prey #7 art by Javier Pina and Jordie Bellaire

Denise Zhang: “The ‘A’ in the Arrow and Canary family stands for Asian.”

My favourite thing about Cass being on Birds of Prey is that she finally gets to hang out with non-bats.

She's been hanging out with Black Canary and Vixen. She has the most instantly iconic friendship ever with Big Barda. They're both training Sin together via laser tag. Absolutely phenomenal.

Motivations:

Anita Fite (Empress)

Anita Fite was done and has continued to be done dirty for a long time. She spent the original Young Justice run being preyed on by older men, bullied, drawn half naked, been foisted with stereotypical depictions of Vodou, having her major spotlight arc co-opted by a random team up if basically every teen hero, having the climax of her spotlight arc instead going to more Cissie angst, and then receiving an incredibly dumb write out. Literally every member of Young Justice save her (and Slobo, but his circumstances are trickier) has since resurfaced in modern comics. Anita deserves her chance in the spotlight. The current continuity reset means we don't have to stay married to her bullshit ending. There's a lot of potentially interesting ground to cover with her relationships to the loa. She can have more insane homoerotic tension with other women. Maybe she'll almost stab a werewolf to death for looking at the girl she likes wrong again! DC is also sorely lacking a magical team book at the moment. She'd do great on a team as the magic user who actually knows how to throw a punch Bring her back!!!

Stephanie Brown (Batgirl), Cassandra Cain (Batgirl), & Sin Lance

baby birds of prey

the birds in battle! (from birds of prey (2023) #4)

these bitches gay…

(Birds of Prey #2 2023)

Every time I open this comic my trust in Kelly Thompson goes up.

(For reference - Birds of Prey #109 1999)

Really want to connect with some arrowfam fans so if you like arrowfam drop a comment or do. Would really appreciate ♥️

I just realized the girls vs boys ratio in the arrowfamily and I'm in shock-

Girls:

Dinah

Emiko

Sienna

Lian

Mia

Cissie

Jade (yes she counts).

+ Artemis in young justice. She's also very popular arrowfamily character.

I think Sin also counts as arrowfamily but I'm not sure.

So 7-9 girls depends on how you count.

Boys:

Oliver

Roy

Connor

And that's it???

I'm currently hyperfocusing on Lian so I started to think about the arrowfamily and I realized it.

That's so different from the batfamily where the female characters often don't get enough attention and are treated horribly.

This is so sweet 🥺

this version of Diana is superior Birds of Prey #6 art by Leonardo Romero

I didn't know how badly I needed Cass & Barda friendship (+ the two of them training with Sin) but this is everything to me

Arrowfam Family Tree

dc really really need to start naming dead mothers *sigh*

i like the theory that Cissie could be Ollie's bio daughter, it's fun. Yelling at the Justice League is clearly a family trait.

Motivations:

Tara Markov (Terra), Grant Emerson (Damage), & Bart Allen (Impulse)

They had an interesting dynamic and I am curious if reboot Terra now has the memories of both Terra I and Terra II. They were fun in New Titans. I kinda want to see them back together again.

Stephanie Brown (Batgirl), Cassandra Cain (Batgirl), & Sin Lance

baby birds of prey