So Batwoman will be Kathy ‘Kate’ Kane, a rich socialite who puts on spandex and fights crimes. She’s also the ex-girlfriend of ex-cop (and current depressed alcoholic) Renee Montonya.
Clearly I’m a freakin’ psychic!
Kate looks to be a 5’10” buxom redhead, who is smart, sassy and has a nice ass. She’s a comic book heroine, though, so the ‘nice ass’ is par for the course. While a lot of people are all ‘fucking hell, they’re pandering by giving us a lesbian!’, and others are upset about the Times (NY) calling Kate a ‘lipstick lesbian,’ I’m excited.
First, we have an openly gay, without a doubt from the start, superhero. Yes, DC (and Marvel) have other fairies in the mix (Scandal is recently out), but there hasn’t been a public declaration of they’re here, they’re queer, and their undies are on the outside of their pants before. At least … not that I remember.
As I scanned the pictures of the new Batwoman at Newsarama, I noted a couple things. First, the Alex Ross sketches had her hair kinkier and I thought she’d be Hispanic. She may still be, but she looks like a white chick to me now.
Second, my girl Montoya looks piiiissed off. I think she totally recognizes Kate and is chapped. Heh. I can see the conversation. “Hey, it’s my ex! Renee, how are you? Oh, out of work and alcoholic cause you couldn’t solve the crime of who killed your cop partner, and Daria left ya so you’re having meaningless one night stands? Sucks doesn’t it. Me? I’m good. Wearing Spandex, solving crimes, dating a doctor. Why do you ask?”
And Montoya says punta gringa and there’s a fanboy lesbo smackdown. Or just a lot of glaring.
So yeah, DC may be getting pissed on for pandering, but damn it, I like the pander. Besides, the original Kathy Kane became Batwoman with a freakin’ purse, and Batman was always telling her to go home and have kids. For fucks sake, anything’s better!
Of course, I didn’t like the new Batgirl (Cassandra) so I’m just happy a bat-female is back.