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I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

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Separate Orbits
Yael Mermelstein
Progress: 119/427pages
BATMAN #53 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman53, TomKingBatman53
BATMAN #54 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
MattWagnerBatman54, TomKingBatman54
BATMAN #52 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman52, TomKingBatman52
BATMAN #51 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman51, TomKingBatman51
Infinity Wars: Iron Hammer (2018) #1 (of 2)
Al Ewing, Humberto Ramos
Champions (2019-) #4
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente
SUICIDE SQUAD #46 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSS46, RobWilliamsSS46
SUICIDE SQUAD #45 ((SINK ATLANTIS)) ((DC REBIRTH )) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSuicideSquad45, RobWilliamsSuicideSquad45
Champions (2019-) #3
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente

Grab bag miss

Black Canary (2015-) #2 - Brenden Fletcher, Annie Wu

 

So, wait, what?   The original singer for a band is kicked out, Dinah comes on board, the band's name is changed to Black Canary... and no one guesses Dinah is Black Canary?

 

Oh, DC, I wanted to like this.   I loved the illustrations, and you've been doing well with female characters, from old school Wonder Woman to the newer Batgirl that I'd heard so much about lately.   (And finally read, and loved.)

 

This however had so much fuckery.   I did like some of the things, like Dinah and her  band having some mystery and conflict between them.   I liked the way they had to band together and protect themselves and each other.   

 

But I was so, so confused I can't see myself investing in the rest of this series.   I have no clue if issue one, or three and on will have more head-scratching plot holes like this.   The funny thing is that I know it's not retconned so that Black Canary doesn't exist, because Dinah was Black Canary before the band started.   (Her music career started in Batgirl.)

 

So I have just enough information to make sense - and DC refuses to give me enough information to know if issue one is full of this kind of confusion or not.    Without that, I'm unwilling to continue.   I'd have to actually invest financially to catch up (and keep up) and I'd need more of a guarantee that things will eventually make sense.   This issue does not make me feel assured that anything will be resolved at the end.