This was a long and painful read. I'd like to get those few minutes of the last few nights back so I could spend them on a better comic. I went through this hoping to find a redeeming quality to the first one and ended up more disappointed. I don't know if the writer thought the readers were stupid enough to need Black Canary to explain EVERYTHING or if he simply couldn't follow his own story without adding unnecessary details in every scene. It feels as if a novel author had been assigned to a comic and didn't realize there would be pictures to accompany the story.