We also see Kane meeting – and breaking things off with – Renee Montoya, and starting the relationship with Maggie Sawyer that, at the end of Williams’ time on the comic, turns into a proposal. In the first issue we meet Anna, Kane’s girlfriend – although only briefly Anna dumps Kane because she thinks Kane is having an affair (arguably true, if Batwoman is driven the way Batman is). The one most pertinent here is that Kate Kane, Batwoman, is a lesbian who left West Point because she refused to lie about her sexual orientation on questioning about it Kane’s homosexuality becomes a secondary, and at times primary, theme in the series from the word go. Rucka’s run on Batwoman, which became Williams’ run with the New52 relaunch, is notable for a number of things. Is this one-woman army fighting a war she can’t win, against an enemy with more power over her than she ever could have guessed? Led by a Lewis Carroll-quoting madwoman known only as Alice, they plan to turn Gotham into a wonderland of carnage.īut Alice has something special in store for the Batwoman – something that will show her everything she thought she knew about her new life as a caped crusader is wrong. She is Batwoman, Gotham City’s newest protector, and battling her at every turn of her still young crimefighting career is a crazed cult called the Religion of Crime.
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