#Black Canary/Lady Shiva

[silver-snow-draws]

Black Canary/Lady Shiva for the 2023 DCU Rarepair Exchange, this was my gift for @chezpillow ! Mixed media w/ pencils and inks, was very fun to work on 😊

Art description: Black Canary held by Lady Shiva from behind, with one hand over her mouth and the other restraining Dinah’s free hand by interlacing their fingers. The two women are making eye contact as Sandra’s hand tugs Dinah’s head backwards. Dinah is wearing a classic dark blue bodysuit with a fishnet chest cutout and fishnet tights, and Sandra is wearing a tang style purple and red frog-button blouse embroidered with golden phoenixes over form-fitting brown pants.

[drbatsponge]

I said this on the other hellsite but the reason Cass fights with Lady Shiva are so memorable is because Shiva isn't just a prop, she serves the fucking narrative, she's not an obstacle, she's a legitimate challenge and is there to further Cassandra's journey as a character.

So yeah it's pretty insulting just to see her seemingly used as some big boss battle for Dinah in her new series and nothing beyond that.

[fartguy5000]

whatever dinah and shiva have going on rn has definitely been explored in some old yuri anime ill tell you that

[dcsnextgaycharacter]

[shamlesspandanerd]

[dc-darling]

They should kiss

[why-i-love-comics]

Black Canary: Best of the Best #1 - "Round one" (2024)

written by Tom King art by Ryan Sook & Dave Stewart

[saiditallbefore]

Birds of Prey (1999) #62-65, 66

"If I decide to kill someone, I will tell you beforehand. And then you are welcome to try to stop me."

[towritecomicsonherarms]

Black Canary: Best of the Best #1

[dailydccomics]

the fight of the century has begun Black Canary: Best of the Best #1 by Tom King and Ryan Sook

[hagaishi-sama]

[but-a-humble-goon]

top 10 best hand-to-hand fighters in the DCU??

just wanna know ur opinions on this, it's really interesting to see the diff answers ppl give!

There's probably like hundreds and hundreds of characters I'm forgetting or are gaps in my knowledge because this is DC. Also not including Karate Kid because he's around centuries in the future and also that's basically cheating. -Cassandra Cain, (the only person alive who can somewhat consistently beat Shiva when they're both at their best. Name any martial artist in the DC universe and the odds are she's humiliated them. Like half of the shit she does in every single issue is flagrantly physically/biologically/logistically impossible) -Lady Shiva & Richard Dragon (it's established the two meet up to duel constantly and as of yet neither has definitively proven themselves superior so they share a spot) -White Canary (according to Dinah she's as good as if not better than Cass or Shiva but she does also back down from Shiva like a total wuss so that's probably a slight exaggeration, nonetheless she certainly proves herself to be in the same ballpark) -Strix (Shiva calls her one of the most impressive fighters she's ever seen and shall we say everything we see her do certainly backs up that assessment. Plus she has the same acrobat training as Nightwing) -Conner Hawke (He's basically only ever lost a fair fight to one of the above. He fought Shiva and gave almost as good as he got and even Cass concedes he's pretty good and if you know her she does not compliment lightly) -Bronze Tiger (can handily kick Batman's ass as well as basically everyone else in his league like Deathstroke, Black Canary, Catman etc, can at least hold his ground against the likes of the top 3) -Nightwing (he's usually held to be better than Bats and he's handled Deathstroke with relative ease a couple of times. Not to mention his absurd talent at acrobatics. I'd put him at the top of the A tier) -Deathstroke (we're really splitting hairs at this point but yeah, generally Slade's pretty much considered unstoppable by most people. There's a good reason the Bats' standard procedure when going up against him is to just pay him off) -Black Canary (really this spot could have gone to Batman or David Cain just as easily but in addition to being as good as those two Dinah has the best track record when it comes to being the underdog and winning through sheer grit and adaptability. I'd put my money on her scoring a surprise win against any of the heavy hitters on this list over those two)

[drbatsponge]

So that new Black Canary series by Tom King is looking fantastic... 😑

Not only are they pretending that Dinah is somehow a better fighter than Cassandra Cain let alone fucking Richard Dragon or even Bronze Tiger, but they're also just using Shiva as a prop and nothing more.

Yeah, let's hope that Cassandra's new Batgirl series absolutely sweeps this in November, I stg.

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[crisisofinfinitemultiverses]

Black Canary: Best of the Best 3 (2025) variant by Chuma Hill

[jkparkin]

Black Canary: Best of the Best #4 (DC, February 2025) variant cover by Kendrick Lim

[call-me-oracle]

barbara gordon in birds of prey (1999) covers pt. 2