Many great writers have worked on Birds of Prey. It’s an all woman hero team and a title that features Black Canary without focusing on her relationship with Green Arrow. Definitely check out Gail Simone’s run, which starts with #56 and goes through #108. Here’s Simone’s first Birds of Prey story arc, OF LIKE MINDS.
Although we love seeing Black Canary working with an incredible team of ladies, we do also love seeing her relationship with Green Arrow. This series begins with their wedding!
ComiXologist, captain of the digital editors, and die-hard Black Canary fan Jen made sure this title was included in our recs! She says, “It’s an out of continuity book by Paul Dini of Batman: The Animated Series fame. It feels like the characters from pre-New 52 with a team up between Zatanna and Black Canary. A really good one shot that begins and ends, so it’s nice to have the full story in one book from start to finish. This was published as a completed graphic novel rather than in single issues, and has some great bonus sketches in the back. A great place to start to get to know the character, in my opinion.”
This is an awesome, fresh take on Black Canary, making it a great title for new readers to [stage]dive right into the character. She’s one part vigilante and one part rockstar!
Even though DC’s Green Arrow Rebirth book doesn’t mention Black Canary in the title, she is an important presence in the story.
As Oliver struggles with how he can fight “the man” when his huge fortune makes him the man, he and Black Canary uncover a deadly new threat to Seattle that cuts the Archer to the bone.
@keeper-of-the-lore wrote us asking for some Black Canary recs to celebrate her 70th anniversary so, we’re bumping up this list!
Many great writers have worked on Birds of Prey. It’s an all woman hero team and a title that features Black Canary without focusing on her relationship with Green Arrow. Definitely check out Gail Simone’s run, which starts with #56 and goes through #108. Here’s Simone’s first Birds of Prey story arc, OF LIKE MINDS.
Although we love seeing Black Canary working with an incredible team of ladies, we do also love seeing her relationship with Green Arrow. This series begins with their wedding!
ComiXologist, captain of the digital editors, and die-hard Black Canary fan Jen made sure this title was included in our recs! She says, “It’s an out of continuity book by Paul Dini of Batman: The Animated Series fame. It feels like the characters from pre-New 52 with a team up between Zatanna and Black Canary. A really good one shot that begins and ends, so it’s nice to have the full story in one book from start to finish. This was published as a completed graphic novel rather than in single issues, and has some great bonus sketches in the back. A great place to start to get to know the character, in my opinion.”
This is an awesome, fresh take on Black Canary, making it a great title for new readers to [stage]dive right into the character. She’s one part vigilante and one part rockstar!
Even though DC’s Green Arrow Rebirth book doesn’t mention Black Canary in the title, she is an important presence in the story.
As Oliver struggles with how he can fight “the man” when his huge fortune makes him the man, he and Black Canary uncover a deadly new threat to Seattle that cuts the Archer to the bone.
Speaking of darkness, it was announced this week that Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) will be directing the film of Peter Milligan and Mikel Janin’s Justice League Dark for DC/Warner Bros. What’s your dream casting for this movie?
I will admit, at the moment, we have some gaps in our Zatanna collection here at comiXology (I’ll be sure to let DC know WE WANT MORE!), including not only the first appearance of Zatanna in 1964’s Hawkman #4 but also the introduction of Zatanna’s father Giovanni Zatara whose story appeared alongside the introduction of Superman in Action Comics #1!
That being said, I put together a little reading list that will still give you a nice introduction to one of the DC characters that deserves way more attention than she gets and not just because her bowtie game puts mine to shame.
In 2010, longtime fan of the Zatanna, Paul Dini put the young magi in the spotlight of her own solo series. It’s a great place to start with the character, and Dini (who you may have heard of as the writer of Batman: The Animated Series) has become the quintessential voice behind character. The series follows Zatana’s adventures having recently left the JLA, and while short lived adds much to the Zatanna mythos, seeing her pitted against a sorcerer who controls the supernatural crime scene in San Francisco, a Faustian casino owner who trades the souls of his new brides for everlasting youth, and a new supervillan named Siphon who attempts to steal Zatanna’s powers.
In the mid 2000’s Grant Morrison wanted to take what he felt was a bunch of DC “C-List” characters and form them into his own Avengers analogue. Zatanna was sloted for his Scarlet Witch counterpart and so a 4-issue miniseries featuring her was woven into Morrison’s grand over-arching storyline that brought all of his characters together ending in a climactic final battle. Zatanna’s story can be read on its own if you’d like just a taste, but the whole story has been collected into a couple volumes. With JH Williams III on art, it’s definitely worth a look or two
Maybe this is the whole reason I wanted to write this list. Just recently Paul Dini got back in the driver seat of the good ship Zatanna, and this time brought along the incredible joequinones to write one of the best books to come out under the DC banner in recent memory. Bloodspell sees two superheroes brought together by their love for one another as well as their love for fishnet stockings. Witness a young Black Canary meet an even younger Zatanna Zatara, and get glimpses into how their friendship began while they take on a curse that is hunting down the former members of an all-female casino heist that Canary had once infiltrated.
I will admit, at the moment, we have some gaps in our Zatanna collection here at comiXology (I’ll be sure to let DC know WE WANT MORE!), including not only the first appearance of Zatanna in 1964’s Hawkman #4 but also the introduction of Zatanna’s father Giovanni Zatara whose story appeared alongside the introduction of Superman in Action Comics #1!
That being said, I put together a little reading list that will still give you a nice introduction to one of the DC characters that deserves way more attention than she gets and not just because her bowtie game puts mine to shame.
In 2010, longtime fan of the Zatanna, Paul Dini put the young magi in the spotlight of her own solo series. It’s a great place to start with the character, and Dini (who you may have heard of as the writer of Batman: The Animated Series) has become the quintessential voice behind character. The series follows Zatana’s adventures having recently left the JLA, and while short lived adds much to the Zatanna mythos, seeing her pitted against a sorcerer who controls the supernatural crime scene in San Francisco, a Faustian casino owner who trades the souls of his new brides for everlasting youth, and a new supervillan named Siphon who attempts to steal Zatanna’s powers.
In the mid 2000’s Grant Morrison wanted to take what he felt was a bunch of DC “C-List” characters and form them into his own Avengers analogue. Zatanna was sloted for his Scarlet Witch counterpart and so a 4-issue miniseries featuring her was woven into Morrison’s grand over-arching storyline that brought all of his characters together ending in a climactic final battle. Zatanna’s story can be read on its own if you’d like just a taste, but the whole story has been collected into a couple volumes. With JH Williams III on art, it’s definitely worth a look or two
Maybe this is the whole reason I wanted to write this list. Just recently Paul Dini got back in the driver seat of the good ship Zatanna, and this time brought along the incredible joequinones to write one of the best books to come out under the DC banner in recent memory. Bloodspell sees two superheroes brought together by their love for one another as well as their love for fishnet stockings. Witness a young Black Canary meet an even younger Zatanna Zatara, and get glimpses into how their friendship began while they take on a curse that is hunting down the former members of an all-female casino heist that Canary had once infiltrated.
Written by the amazing Paul Dini, illustrated by me, and colored by the ever-talented Dave McCaig,“Black Canary and Zatanna: Bloodspell" will be hitting stores May 21st, 2014.
