Batwoman's Such A Tease
This blog's most hotly anticipated title of 2011 is going to need a little more... anticipating. Though Batwoman's release had already been pushed back this January for an April solicitation, DC has advised retailers that the series has been canceled for re-solicitation. Though the situation has drawn criticism across the net from fans, one could imagine DC's frustration, having printed issue one's preview pages in the backs of its books released this very week, sporting the April release date. If JH Williams III needs time to perfect his stellar artwork, then this is no reason to get fanboys (and Kate's relatively huge legion of fangirls) all riled up. My primary grievance comes from the fact that we've been waiting forever, it seems, to get this character into the spotlight. For a five-year old character, Kate's gone, essentially, nowhere. This was the lesbian hyped up at cons as DC's highest-profile gay character, yet she's only made about two dozen appearances in canonically-significant issues. We're being sold short on a woman who was supposed to mean so much more; And so it's crucial that the Batwoman series is well-written, that it can build a buffer to keep the readers it should one day attract, whenever it finally does come out. Given DC's expanding catalog of forgotten female characters, it's crucial to LGBT representation that Batwoman gets the outlet she deserves, and a title on an inconsistent schedule wouldn't speak much for her respectability.
Rubber Justice
Posted to Comics on 11 March 2011
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Wise words. I'm trying so hard to be patient. It's tough, though, when those teaser pages in the back of DC titles this month are SO GOOD.
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I agree with you about DC's backlog of unused female characters. I recall an issue of "Birds of Prey", where Oracle had this huge gallery of heroines she could call on when their talents fit a particular mission. That "Mission: Impossible" idea quickly faded, and now we have the core team: Black Canary, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk, and Dove, with Hawk as the token male (and he's needed, why? With all the strong, tough women in the DC-verse?).
And yeah, that's gotta be annoying, to have "Batwoman" #1 held up - both for the fans and for DC's editorial staff. Problem is, the more you delay, the more that first issue has got to be god's gift to comics readers, or else the title's going to be killed on arrival. And then, it'll be, "See? No one buys comics with female leading characters."