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Black Canary: Ignite: 01/28/20
Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee is Cabot's debut graphic novel. Dinah Lance has her sights on winning the Battle of Bands. But she keeps getting in trouble at school for freak accidents. Things break around her and the principal wants her expelled. In most of the other DC graphic novels I've read, the future powers or future identities of characters are left out of the story. There are exceptions: the Teen Titans series by Kami Garcia, You Brought Me the Ocean by Alex Sanchez (2020), and Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Lê (2020). For the most part, I prefer the ones that are less power oriented and more alternate timeline character development. Ignite is unusual in that it starts as a character driven narrative and then pivots at the halfway point to being about her coming into her abilities. A villain in the world is also revealed more blatantly than almost all the other books, the Minh Lê graphic novel being an exception. Four stars Comments (0) |