Black Canary: Best of the Best #6 – Tom King, Writer; Ryan Sook, Artist; Dave Stewart, Colorist
Ray – 9.5/10
Ray: What do you get when you combine a cutting look at the difficulty of navigating the American health care system with the most brutal fight comic in DC history? You get the latest Tom King deep dive into a superhero’s psychology. For five issues, Black Canary has been taking an enormous amount of punishment from Lady Shiva in the ring, and dealing out almost as much, all to save her mother’s life. She has to make it to round six, then surrender, to get the lifesaving cure from Vandal Savage. Each issue covers a round, and now we’re here. There’s just one problem – Shiva has put one of Dinah’s best friends in the hospital and cruelly humiliated her at every turn, and now she wants revenge. And as the first bell of this round kicks off, it’s not clear if the two of them will even survive to the final round bell, or if the fight will finally go to the point of no return.
Amid the chaotic fight, there are some of those moments that make Tom King’s writing so effective, particularly a brilliant one-sided argument as Dinah returns home while her mother languishes in a hospital bed, and essentially has a raging fight with the woman who has dominated her life in so many ways. This may be the best depiction I’ve ever seen of a how complicated mother-daughter relationships can be, as these two clearly have a deep love for each other but also drive each other absolutely insane. And that sets the stakes sky-high for the final bell, as Shiva humiliates Dinah one time too many, sending Dinah into a rage and leaving her with two objectives that can’t possibly mesh with each other – or can they? This is one of the more divisive King books in recent memory (but then, when does he not create tense debates?), but I think it’s the story Dinah’s needed for a very long time.
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