So... Three years after being introduced with much fanfare, Batwoman finally gets her own feature (and cover) in this week's Detective Comics. For the character who is supposedly DC's most prominent gay character, her profile has been extremely low. Heck, Obsidian gets more panel time. Not to mention Renee Montoya, who has assumed the identity ( Read more... )

Um... OK, DC really hyped the buzz machine for the new Batwoman (Did we tell you that she's a lesbian?). She was clearly featured on the big forward-looking splash page at the end of Infinite Crisis (Did we mention that she's a lipstick lesbian?). And they gave her a really long and drawn out introduction in the high-profile weekly series 52 ( ( Read more... )

I continue to like how Tim is written with the new post-IC writer (although don't get me started on the mess with Cass from the last storyline- I'm sure much of that is editorially mandated anyway). Now we're into the second post-IC storyline, which so far seems to be focusing more on Tim himself. ( Read more... )

So after much hoopla in the press, an appearance in her civillian identity, and a costumed cameo lurking in the background, the new Batwoman has finally made her first full in-costume appearance. I'm generally pretty happy with how she's turning out, but I do have some reservations.( Read more... )

"A lot like Robin if you close your eyes": Displacement of meaning in the post-modern Age is an essay on girl-wonder.org that says a lot of interesting things about the larger reasons why Stephanie could never have stayed as Robin, and where ideas that would naturally go into the Robin role have gone instead due to the constraints on Robin-the- ( Read more... )

Golden Age comic book politics (read: propaganda) are amusing, as illustrated by
Batman #30.

Girl-Wonder.org is very cool. And as to my comment in the title:

Betty Kane (Bat-girl) was never taken seriously, and still isn't (although she's Bette Kane / Flamebird in the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths world).

Kathy Kane (Batwoman) was killed as a minor point in a not-particularly-memorable storyline, for no particularly good reason. She ( Read more... )