Make no mistake, Dinah and Zatanna aren’t the sit-up-all-night-talking-about-their-feelings type of best friend. And therein lies the - dare I say it - magic of the original graphic novel by writer Paul Dini and artist Joe Quinones, drawing these two women together to make something that shouldn’t work, work.Ĭoncentrating on an undercover case Black Canary took on that inadvertently led her to being a part of a blood magic spell, this book takes one adventure and, through flashback and fantastic character interaction, creates an entire history between these two women that feels utterly natural and endearing. In truth, they don’t have that much in common, but sometimes, the best of friends don’t. Maybe it’s because they both always seemed to work so well with different male characters in the Bronze Age - Canary with Green Arrow and Green Lantern, and Zatanna with the Flash, the Hawks, or Elongated Man - or because Dinah has been so closely associated with lots of female heroes since, none of which was the Mistress of Magic. For whatever reason, I’ve never put Black Canary and Zatanna together in my head.
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