Black Canary by Frank Miller from ASBRBW

Someday I'll get around to reading All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder, but not today.  I've heard awful things about how Frank Miller writes Black Canary in the series, and I can't say I'm overly fond of his artistic representation of her in this image from the variant cover to issue #3.  He captures all of what I believe are the fundamental aspects of Black Canary, but puts them through a Sin City filter that adds an unwanted degree of depression and sluttiness.

Jim Lee's Black Canary from ASBRBW

I never read All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder but I've heard it's pretty godawful.  There was a time when a Batman project written by Frank Miller and drawn by Jim Lee would have sent me into a fit of rapturous glee.  But that time was fifteen years ago.

Because I haven't read it, I cannot comment with authority on the quality of the story or its characterization of Black Canary.  However, I have heard that she is not treated with the level of love and care that other writers treat her.  Jim Lee's depiction of Dinah is eye-catching certainly, maybe as sexy as ever in purely physical way (as "physically sexy" as a 2-D comic character can be).  But I've also heard that Miller degrades her to a cigar smoking, overly sexualized, and sexually harassed bartender who takes to beating up the men who objectify her just like the writer and artist do.  And then she beats up every other man in sight until she sees Batman, who she falls in love with.

*sigh*

I could look at the picture above for a long time, but what I've heard about Dinah's interpretation in All Star Batman just makes me angry.