These covens dedicated to an ancient religion of chaos bring a whole boatload of hocus-pocus into the story. In Elegy, Batwoman struggles with her previous nemesis “The Religion of Crime”. What doesn’t always work is the use of magical and supernatural themes.
Perhaps the best reason to pick up this book is to watch a major formalist experiment in image and narrative unfold in front of you.īatwoman:Elegy finds this creative team working at the height of their powers. Williams rejects the stylized monumentalism that sometimes creeps into the drawn narrative. His iconic two page spreads are incredibly kinetic. His page arrangement sometimes appears as jagged bolts of lightening or broken glass, each shard offering up a narrative moment. Williams refuses to recognize any of the proprieties of panel placement. Williams takes this well-wrought tale to the level of high art. He combines realism and an ear for current idiom that gives his fantastic world a lived-in feel. Rucka builds in dialogue that drags you, delighted, into the narrative. Kate Kane has become much-beloved by fans and critics because of Rucka’s well-known ability to add depth and dimension to his characters. However, this is no after-school special (not that American doesn’t need one on the topic). Greg Rucka’s Batwoman is not the first openly gay superhero, although you don’t need the fingers of one hand to count the rest. All of these wonderful toys are provided by her army colonel father, an incredibly charming character whose bond with Kane becomes the most moving element of this tale. Que cape and cowl, plenty of gadgets and a secret bunker under her house. The military’s altogether stupid and embarrassing policy regarding “homosexual conduct” ended her career but opened the way for her to find a new one. Suffering through standard issue superhero childhood trauma (with a twist), Kate Kane hoped to find fulfillment in the army and came close with a sterling career at West Point. Only tangentially connected to the Batman mythos, Kate Kane’s story holds in tension all the themes of identity, trauma and vengeance that are at the dark heart of the Dark Knight narrative. The reinvention of the modern Batwoman has been a major achievement. (Rather ironic, given her current incarnation, don’t you think?) Her character, Kathy Kane, was meant to be a romantic interest for Batman and to counter claims by early ’50s comic book critics that Batman and Robin’s relationship had homoerotic overtones. Not many superheroes get headlines in the mainstream press like “The red-headed lesbian is unleashed at last” or “Holy Lipstick Lesbian!” DC comics’ new incarnation of Batwoman has garnered both praise as a compelling character and wholly predictable criticism from homophobic culture warriors.īatwoman first appeared in Detective Comics #233 in 1954.
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