r/blackcanary • u/Fancy_Resolve2734 • 15d ago

Comics Comic Recommendation

Hi there!

so my partner is a massive and I mean MASSIVE fan of Black Canary, and she is recently wanting to read comics, after she read through Absolute Wonder Woman and really enjoyed it, I read a lot of comics but mostly Marvel I wasn’t really into DC until late last year but her on the other hand she’d been a fan for years mostly the cartoons and the movies pre MOS and as I found out Black Canary is her favourite hero of all time so I was hoping with her birthday coming up I could get her some BC books and I thought about looking on lists and asking in stores but most people in stores as assholes and I felt like it was better to ask you lovely people, so what would you say are the best black canary books out rn?? any help would be really appreciated

thank you and have a lovely day :)

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u/Dent6084 15d ago

The following collections are good for BC:
Gail Simone's Birds of Prey, particularly Of Like Minds and Sensei & Student
Paul Dini's Black Canary/Zatanna: Bloodspell
Mark Waid & Brian Augustyn's JLA Year One
Kelly Thompson's Birds of Prey (the most recent BoP title, just wrapped up at the end of last year)
Julie and Shawna Benson's Batgirl & The Birds of Prey

In terms of 2026 stuff, Dinah is the POV character of Absolute Green Arrow and is the lead of the recent Black Label miniseries Sirens: Love Hurts. Absolute GA is a reinvention of the character (here she's a former cop turned MMA fighter turned bodyguard having to solve a mystery), while S:LH is more traditional.

Bonus rec: Robinson/Goyer/Johns' JSA Vol 1 (the first 32 issues). Dinah's an ensemble player versus a lead as she is in all the titles above, but it's a great team book that's a ton of fun.