Is Billy Tucci Writing Cassandra Cain as White Canary?
June 14th, 2010 by Esther Inglis-Arkell | Tags: batgirl, DC comicsI always welcome more Batgirls, but I don’t see it happening for the following reasons.
1. All of the Birds of Prey know Cassandra Cain and know her well. Sure, White Canary in Birds of Prey was wearing a half-mask, but they’d still know her. And wouldn’t it be a little awkward to introduce this big mystery character on the last page of Birds of Prey only to have the characters go, “Oh, hey Cassandra,” in the next issue? I guess we’ll see.
2. White Canary? Really? That’s the title? A spin-off of an already shuffled around character? That’s not the strongest title for a book. ‘Cassandra Cain,’ would be a much better title all on its own. You have the alliteration, the allusion to the homicidal Cain in the Bible. It’s like Damian Al Ghul. That’s an evocative enough name, and by this time a well enough known name, to stand alone.
3. As I understand it, when Ian Sattler was asked at Heroes Con, about any upcoming Cassandra Cain books, he said they planned to leave the character alone for a couple of years. In my experience, the default answer for these things is ‘sure, ____ might come back soon,’ no matter how unlikely it is, so if someone is actually willing to say that there’s nothing planned, there’s probably nothing planned.
Or are they running a double game on us?
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I sincerely hope she’s not going to be White Canary. I agree with you on Cassandra Cain being a better title just on its own. She’s so decidedly a bat, even if she’s not Batgirl, it’s hard to see any other name as a title.
In my experience, the default answer for these things is ’sure, ____ might come back soon,’ no matter how unlikely it is, so if someone is actually willing to say that there’s nothing planned, there’s probably nothing planned.
You’re probably right. At a DC panel at Fan Expo last summer I asked Dan Didio when we’d see Cassandra again and he said 2010, but here we are with only a few months left of solicitations and nary a Cass in sight.
Part of me feels like “just bring her back already, I don’t care how” because I’m tired of her being treated like she never existed in the pages of Batgirl, and only getting occasional mentions in books like Red Robin or Birds of Prey. It absolutely hurts my heart that we’re getting the buddy team of Batgirl and Supergirl, while Steph’s real best friend is utterly ignored and the writer is all “I’ll only use her if I think up a story that absolutely can’t be done without her” in interviews. But that’s an argument for another day.
I don’t really see her being the White Canary. Apparently Billy Tucci was at a con over the weekend and someone on the DC boards asked him if he was working on Cassandra Cain, and he was all “Who? Oh, daughter of Shiva.” So I’m guessing it’s not actually true. Maybe Gail Simone has something planned, White Canary or not. Or maybe they’re all tricking us. Heaven knows us Cass fans are used to being jerked around by now.
“All of the Birds of Prey know Cassandra Cain and know her well. Sure, White Canary in Birds of Prey was wearing a half-mask, but they’d still know her. And wouldn’t it be a little awkward to introduce this big mystery character on the last page of Birds of Prey only to have the characters go, “Oh, hey Cassandra,” in the next issue? I guess we’ll see.”
Apparently while the metahuman gene developed well in the DC Universe the pattern recognition gene atrophied. This is a world where Superman’s girlfriend can’t recognize him in a pair of glasses.
I think she’s going to take the identity from it’s current holder, who’s probably Lady Shiva
“Lady Cain” would be a much cooler name for Cass than “White Canary”.
I’m putting my money on White Canary being someone new connected to Sin – a previous graduate of the Evil Old Lady School for Martial Arts, perhaps.