NYCC: Batwoman Getting New Comic
Batwoman is an extremely popular Batfamily character, despite having many incarnations over the years. Now though, Kate Kane is synonymous with the role, and has been featured in animated films like Batman: Bad Blood, and has had many comics of her own over the years. Including being one of the leads in the DC Rebirth version of Detective Comics.
Now though, via NYCC, we can say that Batwoman is back with her own solo series. It will be headed up by writer Marguerite Bennett and artist Steve Epting. Like the other Rebirth books, she’ll get a one-shot to set up the new status quo, and the book itself will launch in March 2017.
As for what you can expect Kate to go through, she’s going to doing missions outside of her usual location of Gotham City.
“I wanted to see her in a new environment. Just really test her and test her skills and test her values in ways that weren’t explored as fully in Gotham,” Bennett told IGN at New York Comic Con. “In Gotham she has this family, we wanted to take her to a place that she’s going to be on her own. She’s going to pay for the consequence for the things that she’s done in the past. She’ll have to find her limits and find a place that she has privacy. Who she is to this cast of characters and this family is not who she is alone, and we’ll get to see these sides of her that we haven’t seen before.”
She went on to note how the differences between Batwoman and Batman will be shown more fully in this solo book.
“Whereas Batman is about justice and Batgirl is about recovery, Batwoman is about service. It grew out of the trauma she suffered as a child when she lost her mother and sister, lending herself to military service, finding a way to use her strengths and skills to help some cause, to meet the fulfillment of something greater than herself. When that failed, assuming the mantle made it so she could serve Gotham. I think that’s an ongoing quest, something she’s always looking for,” Bennett said.