Oh look, I'm back! Sorry for the extended hiatus~
Today we are reading
Black Canary: Wedding Planner, Issue #1
The comic starts out with Black Canary and Green Arrow apparently arguing about their wedding while apprehending a criminal. Then we get a wedding checklist which includes an unlimited budget. Ollie (Green Arrow) only has to ask his buds to be groomsmen because wedding planning is woman things amirite?
Also I would like to point out that literally every second page is an add
Anyways, later that night our heroic couple is half naked and in bed and Green Arrow points out that Ms. Canary is not super happy about wedding planning. She tells him to mind his beeswax and gets mad when he suggests a wedding planner because she had one recommended who liked glitter or something. She then throws his laptop out the window
I can already tell how successful this marriage is going to be
They get a call about some superhero business and Green Arrow keeps asking her questions about their wedding and she tells him to shut up because who is he to be interested in their wedding?
Literally how she looks at her future husband
We skip the superhero stuff because this is about WEDDINGS and we find out that she forgot to book a hall on time so there's only like this mega castle left. She asks some... computer girl to rearrange other people's wedding schedules so she can go somewhere she wants
Because apparently she's a good person like that?
She yells at her fiance some more. He offers to help her with the list and call up Batman for some help. She responds with contempt
They then go tasting for a menu. Green Arrow helps her out with that which she isn't happy about because he understood more about the food than her
She then goes to try on wedding dresses with her gal pals. She tries on a bajillion dresses while fussing that she wants the wedding to be a come as you are event. She eventually settles on one that her friends fawn over despite the fact that it makes this thin, in shape woman look rather pregnant. But whatever
She then gets a call about some baddies and as she's changing in to her typical absurdly tight leather (complete with gratuitous butt shot) she gets an idea
Next scene she's training with Green Arrow, talking about weddings and honeymoons. She says she wants to go to an island and he seems reluctant about this. Probably if you know the character this makes more sense but it isn't explained to me at all. She then ditches him to go lingerie shopping. We also get Wonder Woman in lingerie because why wouldn't we?
Black Canary then gets called to the roof by her fiance for some stargazing. Apparently by stars he means rising star criminals
And uh
That's where that ends
Suffice to say I didn't like this a ton. It's actually probably more my speed storywise (if it was written better and less sexisty), I don't seem huge on the whole superhero fighting thing (may be why I don't like superhero comics that much) but the character of Black Canary was a bit... I don't want to say bitchy, but definitely bitchy
This comic can be summarized as: Woman doesn't want to plan wedding, refuses to hire a wedding planner, bitches at her husband when he tries to help, and boobs & butts
Stay tuned for next time! I'll try to update this more often!