Black Canary: Breaking Silence

In a Gotham City ruled by the sinister Court of Owls, women's voices have been silenced, literally. Singing is forbidden, punishable by death, and the patriarchal regime keeps its grip through fear. Seventeen-year-old Dinah Lance was seven when she overheard something impossible: a girl singing.

She has never forgotten it, and now she is discovering that her own voice carries a power the Court would do anything to suppress.

As Dinah wrestles with a father determined to keep her safe, a budding romance with the mysterious new student Oliver Queen, and her growing conviction that the women of Gotham must rise, she begins to understand the legacy of the Black Canary, and the sonic cry that could become a weapon of resistance.

Alexandra Monir's contribution to the DC Icons line reimagines a classic hero's origin as a feminist, near-future dystopia.