Archive for November, 2008

A second retirement

With the news that Birds of Prey has been cancelled (see prior post), I’ve decided to cease all updates on this site. I blog regularly at LiveJournal and most of the posts here were crossposted there, so I’m not stopping blogging, just stopping blogging at CanaryNoir.com.

Thanks to everyone who followed my extremely occasional blogging here and who read my abortive web comic. I’ll be honest, it probably won’t get finished in spite of all my vows. Time has passed and my priorities have changed. If things change again, though, it could happen. If that does happen, I’ll post any future updates on this blog, but that’s it.

Birds of Prey cancelled

Story at Newsarama

I’m not surprised.  It’s just been so limp since Black Canary and Gail left.  I tried to like it, but I’ve mostly been indifferent.  The surprise is it seems to be tied into Batman: RIP as both NIghtwing and Robin are being cancelled at the same time — why is this surprising you ask?  Because BoP hasn’t been considered a Batman family book for a couple of years now.

I’m guessing there will be some sort of rework or relaunch for the involved characters after the RIP fallout, but in some sense, I’m relieved.  I’ve been stepping back more and more from comics, and this is just one more I can let go.  My fan heyday is over. It was a fun ride, but it’s good to move on.

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QUOTABLE

From Birds of Prey #3 (vol. 2)

Lady Blackhawk to Hawk:
... Mister, tell you for nothin', you are getting on my nerves.