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Jack (jackissuperfly) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-01 15:23:00

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char: black canary/dinah lance, char: blue beetle/jaime reyes, char: captain atom/nathaniel adam, char: manhunter/kate spencer, char: question/renee montoya, char: ravager/rose wilson, group: metal men, publisher: dc comics

Let's discuss DC Nation, starring Dan "Unpleasant Fellow" Didio, shall we?

Is there a word for something that gives you all kinds of hope and still completely pisses you off? Because I'm having that right now. "Hey, guys, you know how you love Black Canary? You can have her!"

"In a BACKUP feature!"

"IN HER OWN BOOK."

Wasn't that the idea? Behind the book, I mean. Green Arrow/Black Canary, featuring Green Arrow and Black Canary. Black Canary. How bad has it gotten that Dinah was given stronger characterization when Judd Winick was writing her? Judd "Suck On My Sword Tip" Winick! (I am aware that this was years ago, and there have been far greater atrocities done against her character since, but come the fuck on, Judd Winick.)

I've got an idea. Everyone start cutting out Dinah and Ollie from Green Arrow/Black Canary. Paste Dinah into the Oracle mini and Ollie into Green Lantern. One insultingly stupid comic becomes two fantastically gay ones!

On the other hand, as long as the same author that writes Green Arrow/Some Random Damsel in Distress That Looks Like Black Canary isn't behind the backup feature (Didio implores us not to use that term, but come on now) it should be pretty good. A few pages of Dinah being ludicrously awesome every month might even make up for the weekly humiliation she's receiving, right?

Right?

Let me dream.

And in other news, I'm pretty stoked about Ravager getting her own feature. To say nothing of Renee. Always look on the bright side of life, children.

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jackissuperfly
2009-04-01 06:38 pm UTC (link)

Because she's a title character. They shouldn't have to stick stories focused on her in the back of her own book. Imagine if they pulled that with Superman/Batman: Superman runs around saving lives and giving big heroic speeches while Bats spends the entire book being kidnapped, ignored, or inept. That, and the fact that they're going to make Dinah awesome in the back of the book probably won't make them any more inclined to make her awesome in the front of the book.

But as I said in the post: it does give me hope.

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	yaseen101 2009-04-02 06:55 am UTC (link)
	It says Green Arrow #22 not Ga/BC #22, so it could mean that they are relaunching the GA series with Black Canary as a back-up and who knows it's too early to judge whether it would suck or not, almost all back-up issues have different writers and who says she is going to be inept or captured in it? For all we know this could be a positive change compared to before. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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