![]() ![]() The sales impact of the original issues from the Spring of 2010 was enough to convince DC to give the character her own title this coming April. I've read elsewhere someone suggest you almost want to disassemble the original comics so as to hang up the visuals as art, and I cannot disagree. In a word, its handled beautifully.Īs if the STORY wasn't great in its own right, the visuals are beyond stunning. ![]() ![]() While her sexuality is acknowledged its neither briefly hinted at nor made the prurient subject of some pubescent comics reader. What's more, and this isn't banged over the reader's head too prominently, Batwoman is revealed to be one of the higher profile _lesbian_ characters in comics today. And a great story it is, chronicling the family tragedy that made this interpretation of Batwoman the character she is. This book collects those Detective issues. The rarely used/now revamped Batwoman prominently stepped forward, apparently making enough of an impression with regular Batman readers in that arc as to have DC have her take over his spot in Detective Comics for a few issues. Though the character had floated around the DC universe for some time over the last few decades, the then-current DC comics storyline involved the absence of Batman, & other characters from his world stepped forward to take up the slack. This volume collects a multi-issue story arc of the Batwoman, superhero alter-ego of ex-soldier & socialite Catherine Kane. ![]()
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