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A review by unladylike
Black Canary, Volume 1: Kicking and Screaming by Brenden Fletcher
3.0
2.5 stars
Both the premise and conclusion of this story were really hard to swallow, but enough of the cast and story and art managed to still be entertaining. Even in logic you can have a false premise and a false conclusion but still have a valid argument!
I think it's become a cliche to put a super-powered woman in the front of a rock/pop band as an ostensibly empowering plot device. And by the big plot twist in the last issue of this volume, I was literally shaking my head, rolling my eyes, AND saying aloud, "Oh, come ON."
I had just finished [b:Gotham Academy, Vol. 2: Calamity|25241707|Gotham Academy, Vol. 2 Calamity|Becky Cloonan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1456424381s/25241707.jpg|44961173], for which Brenden Fletcher is the artist, so I already had a positive disposition toward what he might create. I'm guessing this is one of those books that some people really love and others really hate. I'm ambivalent, in the true sense of the word. I think if the creative team had spent less time on the cliche formatting (see: pointless "zine"-style narrative that feels nothing like a zine and more like "the idea of DIY music journalism without having a clue what that actually looks like"), and chosen some different wording/logic at key explanation scenes, it would be much stronger.
Both the premise and conclusion of this story were really hard to swallow, but enough of the cast and story and art managed to still be entertaining. Even in logic you can have a false premise and a false conclusion but still have a valid argument!
I think it's become a cliche to put a super-powered woman in the front of a rock/pop band as an ostensibly empowering plot device. And by the big plot twist in the last issue of this volume, I was literally shaking my head, rolling my eyes, AND saying aloud, "Oh, come ON."
I had just finished [b:Gotham Academy, Vol. 2: Calamity|25241707|Gotham Academy, Vol. 2 Calamity|Becky Cloonan|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1456424381s/25241707.jpg|44961173], for which Brenden Fletcher is the artist, so I already had a positive disposition toward what he might create. I'm guessing this is one of those books that some people really love and others really hate. I'm ambivalent, in the true sense of the word. I think if the creative team had spent less time on the cliche formatting (see: pointless "zine"-style narrative that feels nothing like a zine and more like "the idea of DIY music journalism without having a clue what that actually looks like"), and chosen some different wording/logic at key explanation scenes, it would be much stronger.