The idea of pitting Black Canary against Lady Shiva has been done before, most notable during Gail Simone’s Birds of Prey run. I’m all for a single issue to see the warriors square off, under the right circumstances with motives that make sense for both characters, but a six-issue mini-series setting up a prize fight seems a bit much.
The opening issue of the story gives us round 1 of the fight interspaced with the events leading up to it including the idea that Dinah Lance is taking the fight in order to last long enough to take a dive and pay for her mother‘s cancer care. Hmm, if only she new people with with the money and/or expertise to help. The concept, for a single issue, works well enough (even if I don’t buy Black Canary agreeing to these terms or being able to go through with the deal), but there’s not enough her to sell me on five more issues of the same story.
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