Straight up off the couch from the soft rebooted Batgirl comes Black Canary, a comic about the world of music and the intrigue within.

After years as a crime fighter, Dinah Lance (Black Canary) never imagined herself as a singer...but now she's the lead singer in a band which consists of Lord Byron (drummer), Paloma (keyboards), and Ditto (guitar), their manager Heathcliff and Driver Flo. This band of misfits has trouble following them around and has a central mystery about the record company which put the band together. There are also other plot points that appear along the way but the main story arc is about Dinah and her relationship with her band. We get an insight into their lives and this is where this comic diverges from many other capes costumes hero comics, it's less about superpowers and more about the interaction between individuals, although a super sonic battle of the bands sees plenty of powers used too.
The art style overall is frenetic and chaotic but in the best possible way, and the story has me invested in this world. I look forward to the next collection.

The softcover collects issues #1-7 of the series, and a story from convergence blue beetle #2

There was a charge leveled against most mainstream comics that they are white men power fantasies. Looking over the Marvel and DC universe of old, most of the heroes were indeed Caucasian males. However I feel that this is too harsh a judgement for many reasons; many of the superheroes were created in the 60's when diversity wasn't such a big thing and the comics were aimed at the youth audience, who were traditionally white. So the comics mostly dealt with young white males given or gaining extraordinary powers. This worked for many years but as the story canon has become more obtuse and conflicted it has been difficult for a younger, newer and more diverse audience to access comics.
In a day and age of billion dollar grossing movies the comics industry is trying to branch out and appeal to the diverse audience who access and appreciate these films globally and why shouldn't it? If comics continued on the traditional path they would die a slow death.

When I went to comic shops in the 90's it was mostly older white folk ( which was surprising as I lived in a very culturally diverse town in East London, a melting pot of ethnicities) only really diversifying with the explosion in Marvel Flair '95 and '96 cards due to the popularity of the X Men animated series. But now with Kaboom, Image and small publishing prints it's much more diverse. A large amount of younger female readers have joined the comics wave, either writing, drawing or reading the new versions of classic characters.
Sensing this new audience demographic Marvel and DC have attempted to diversify their cast. The success of comics like the soft rebooted Ms Marvel and She Hulk have led to DC broadening their target audience with comics such as Batgirl and Black Canary (both reboots which don't negate what happened before).

I bought these trades a couple of weeks ago and am enjoying the storylines, artwork and general empowerment of females.

I'm a British Asian male and I love the traditional comics but the newer more diverse comics speak to me (as I mentioned in my article about how Ms Marvel is changing the world). I'm really enjoying the new wave of diversity in comics and long may it continue. Reading the recent trades of She Hulk by Soule and Pulido I came to the 'Legal briefs' page at the back, where the creators come together to share their views, ideas and opinions. A piece written by the editor Jeanine Schaefer really spoke to me as a recent father to a daughter. Women are represented in mainstream comics but only recently are they really getting their due in my opinion.

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