BLACK CANARY VOLUME 1: KICKING AND SCREAMING BRENDEN FLETCHER, ANNIE WU, PIA GUERRA, LEE LOUGHRIDGE DC COMICS

There was a time when Black Canary was a florist. Now, she’s an ultraviolent rock star with a secret past. If anything sums up the way comic books are changing, it’s that.

This cool, fast-paced revamp of the Golden Age character updates her in a way that even justifies her fishnets-and-leather costume, while sidestepping 70 years of tangled continuity.

Black Canary is now the name of a band, and lead singer Dinah Lance, calling herself D.D., is using her superpowered voice to blow everyone away in the music biz, and getting in a lot of fights.

Of course, this is comics, so there is constant peril from aliens, government agents and ninjas, plus onstage rivalries that make Jem and the Holograms seem sensible. This book will get dated fast (check back-issue bins for old Dazzler comics if you want proof), but it doesn’t matter because it’s so much fun right here, right now.