This is a pretty solid issue. Jarrell's art combined with Loughridge's colors are striking and engaging; it gives the issue a lot of life. Teaming up Black Canary with Vixen was a great surprise that led to a lot of fun action. I hope Vixen becomes a recurring character in the book. Fletcher also does a great job of starting at a place of mystery and then explaining instead of flashing back. This is a really fun issue and a good starting point so I recommend picking this up. Read Full Review

This is a pretty dense issue that reveals some ofDinah Lance's background as well as introducing a new story arc. The pacing isa little clunky, but it does the job and there are some really well-drawnaction scenes. Mea culpa, Sandy Jarrell! I will no longer consider this comicbook an Annie Wu-only production! If you've been enjoying the comic so far,then you can keep on picking it up. For new readers, I suppose this is as goodan entry point as any, but prepare to take careful notes. Read Full Review

Make no mistake: Black Canary remains one of the most interesting books DC is putting out at the moment, and Fletcher's saga grows more intriguing by the month. It's not so much of it being a "rare misstep" so much as one weighted down by the necessity of launching into a new arc feet first. Read Full Review

I make no attempt at hiding my biases, and I'd be lying if I said I had high hopes for this book before reading it. Even so, I genuinely gave this my best shot. While I can appreciate some of Jarrell's work, and Loughridge's colors are quite good throughout, Fletcher's script gets so bogged down by expository dialogue and puffed-chest posturing that the art is asked to carry a weight that it cannot bear. Weak villains and wasted opportunities for character development overshadow the few bright spots in the script, makingBlack Canary #7 a difficult book to recommend. Read Full Review

The writing got really bad in this issue. It started to read like actors delivering flat lines.

Another disappointing issue, from a book that just seems to have lost it’s way. The art was decent in this issue, being so different from what I expected, but that is about all the interest I can muster for this book. I loved the inclusion Mari McCabe (aka Vixen) into the main DC universe, but her talents are utterly wasted in this book. Silence is the name of the game in this issue, because Black Canary is wearing an inhibitor collar and forced to fight alongside Mari, who without her talisman doesn’t actually have any abilities- remember? And Black Canary (the band) is included in this story, but for what reason, I cant really understand. Black Canary the person and Black Canary the band have a really predictable and silly “ships passing in the night” kind of moment at the end of this issue, and the whole buildup of what happened to Black Canary (the person)’s mother was a secretive thing that really felt underwhelming in this issue, to the point that I just cant keep mustering interest in this book anymore. I tried, I really did. But I cant give this book the effort to pretend that it’s good or interesting or unique that it requires to be any of those things. more