Black Canary’s package is identical to Elongated Man’s. Check out the in-package shot, and let’s move along…

Oh, where to begin? Maybe by throwing it out there that this figure gives me more of a Street Fighter Cammy vibe than Black Canary. A lot of it is definitely the head sculpt. And while I took some issues with the one DC Direct used for Zatanna, I was ultimately ok with it. Black Canary’s is a little tougher for me to get behind. Look at the eyes, they’re some kind of bizarre East meets West hybrid. It’s like they wanted to go with an anime look but held back just enough to give us this… whatever this is. The huge eyes, coupled with the very angular configuration of the face and the small head, makes this figure in no way Black Canary to me. I do, however, like the ponytail… it’s fetching.

The rest of the figure has some hit and miss issues as well. Canary’s long sleeve one-piece is executed with a high-gloss black finish, and I wholeheartedly approve. She has the same type of real thread fishnets that Mattel used on the DCUC version of the figure and it meets with the same success and failure. They look great when viewed from the front, and they look like crap when viewed from the back. I also have some issues with the proportions of the hands and feet. The feet look too big, but I’ll chalk that up to the style of the boots, but the hands look a bit oversized as well. When I compare them to Zatanna’s they don’t look much bigger, so maybe it’s just an optical illusion. Either way, between the head, hands, and feet, the proportions on this figure seem a bit skewed to me.

Black Canary’s articulation includes a ball jointed neck, arms with ball joints in the shoulders, hinges in the elbows, and swivels in the wrists. The legs rotate at the hips, and have hinges in the knees. It’s worth noting that the ball joint in her neck doesn’t have a huge range of motion and most of the time it looks like she’s looking down. Blah!

I don’t totally hate this figure, but it really doesn’t seem to fit in this line. It feels more like one of those Ane-Comi statues, only not as hyper cute. Truth be told, I’m not sure where this figure would properly fit. She’s an interesting conversation piece standing among my DC Direct figures, but I’m not putting her anywhere near my DCUC shelves. I’ve got a perfectly fine Black Canary represented there.

And that’ll do it for this week’s little excursion into Identity Crisis. Yes, I have more of these figures, and I’ll have to decide which ones I’m going to open so I can revisit the rest of them at one point or another. Until then, I’ll be back tomorrow to kick off the weekend as Star Wars content makes its return to FigureFan!