Review: Batwoman: Elegy Deluxe Edition
I like Greg Rucka’s Gotham Central series, and given the context, it makes sense that he’d kick-off the new Detective Comics, featuring a lesbian Batwoman. Read all about the Elegy Deluxe Edition GN at OneMetal. Here’s a snippet:
Another masked redhead swings into Gotham’s troubled heart, declaring war against its criminal infestation. A mighty symbol emblazoned on her costume, the new Batwoman fills the city’s streets with more than nervous electricity: She sparks a little controversy, as well.
Greg Rucka has handled lesbian issues before, particularly with DC’s own series Gotham Central, and now he’s back steering the army brat Kate Kane through tumultuous relationships and putting her in the thick of Gotham’s miscreant welcome brigade. Kane, military cadet turned superhero, faces the city’s second most famous Lewis Carroll nut, the cult leader “Alice” whose religious ties nearly cost Kane her life once before. The lavishly dressed villain converses purely in rhyme, and the High Madame oversees the thirteen covens with merciless, sadistic attention. Kane’s vengeful strike against Alice’s latest homestead attracts the interference of the cult’s supernatural sect, shape-shifters known as the True Believers. When the fight escalates, taking to the skies, Kane learns a secret that disrupts her moral compass and awakens unhappy family memories.
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I love this new villain, Alice. For someone with a small army of henchmen—and loyal ones to the “High Madame,” at that—you’d think she’d be pretty incapable if she had to fight mano a mano. But the four issues she’s appeared in so far have proven otherwise, demonstrating that this enigma is more than just another Wonderland freak in Gotham. (Really, do these guys have Carroll-themed conventions? A fan club?) Alice is the perfect blend between completely annoying to the point where you want to throw a book at her, and utterly insane enough to make you flee when she yells, “Off with her head!”
