Not Just Black - Depressed & Psycho Canary
A woman’s wedding night is supposed to be one of the most magical moments in her life. You don’t expect to fight with your shiny new husband. You certainly don’t expect to have to defend your own life as he tries to kill you while you’re in nothing but your wedding white lingerie. Unfortunately events like this do happen if you’re a superhero and that’s how Green Arrow and Black Canary issue #1 opens up this new story arc.
There’s really no way to explain the compelling nature of this issue without spoiling all the details. You have true love, intrigue, lots of action, sorrow and conspiracies. It’s the whole package and it’s found in a cover title most comic fans would pass up because the characters are generally considered second string.
Dinah and Oliver are one of those couples that fans see and actually like. We want them to be together and we want them to be happy. They aren’t a spotlight-hogging couple but they are two of the most attractive heroes in the DC universe. The other thing that both of them have going for them is that they don’t rely on superpowers; Dinah uses her hand-to-hand combat over her sonic screech most often. Both of them are human with well-honed advanced fighting skills and readers can get lost in the fantasy that they too can be like that if they put themselves to the test. And like most humans, when faced with a personal tragedy such as the death of her true love, there is depression and anger that burrow so deep into Dinah’s very core, that she begins displaying psychotic symptoms.
Most of her friends think that she is just depressed from Ollie’s apparent death and that her excessive fighting, carelessness, and constant delusional talk of finding “the real Ollie” are merely manifestations of her grief. However, she is lucky to find that Batman agrees with her that Ollie might be alive. Batman gives Dinah the hope that she needs to get through it. By the end of issue #1, the world’s greatest detective along with Dr. Midnite, comes through for her with promising results.
