Kate used to fight lots of supernatural things, but now she doesn’t.

So, what’s different from Elegy to now? Superficial stuff.

If anything, it further contextualizes Bruce more than it does Kate. While that change could have swallowed her, it clearly hasn’t because Jacob and Beth are still around. Williams III/Blackman idea, but it’s clearly not. I thought at first maybe it was the whole “Bruce Wayne is Kate Kane’s cousin” thing, even though that was an Andreyko idea and not a J.H. Except you wouldn’t, because who she is now isn’t who she’s “supposed” to be, so, uhm, in what way, exactly? I’ve been trying to figure out what fundamental change Kate has undergone that is a strong deviation from Elegy, but it just doesn’t seem to exist. That’s so mean for no reason! I get that maybe seeing a character you have a strong personal connection to that you created being written by someone else can be uncomfortable, but your standing rule for working at DC Comics is, and has been for some time: “I’ll always come back for Kate and Diana.” And he did with Diana. Not only that, but to go out of your way to say that the folks who continued Kate’s story made some stupid decisions and now everyone else has to cover for them is…wow. …what the hell? What does “not my Kate” even mean? Also, what in God’s name was your original intent with Kate, because buddy, let me tell you, if it wasn’t “angry queer Jewish woman screams for right to exist/justice/purpose” then it probably sucked. I read through the thread and was…surprised at what I (and by “I”, I mean friend of the show on twitter) found. I actually found out about it after it had already happened, because I’ve been in the middle of moving and haven’t really had a chance to sit until kind of right now. I’m obviously excluding the short-lived Andreyko era.Īnyway, I was surprised to learn the other day that Greg Rucka and Michael Lark (the primary artist on Rucka’s seminal Gotham Central as well as their creator-owned Lazarus ) were doing an AMA on reddit. Everything from her relationship to her father, to the way in which she outed herself, to DADT, to Sophie, to her drunken stupor, to her training everything Kate has done in the decade and change since that eleven month run stems from those same stories. For eleven months back in 2009 and into 2010, Kate Kane took over Detective Comics.

she exists and is gay and jewish) in 2006, but really it was Rucka who would go on to write what is unanimously considered to be her foundational and character-defining text: Batwoman: Elegy. Well, him and Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, and Geoff Johns came up with basic idea (e.g. For the uninitiated, Greg Rucka is the name of the guy who modernized the character of Batwoman.

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