Ugh. You have no idea what’s going on in this situation. Yeah it’s sad that such a great series may be wrapping up but jumping to “homophobia” as the reason for it is just inflamatory.

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hydrogen, unfortunately TopJack is probably not far off.

DC has had an aversion to Batwoman getting any sort of major popularity since she was first announced. They know the fans want the book, but they’re too scared to let an actual book go out with her title because of right wing reactions to it.

Look at the crap Marvel went through Rawhide Kid and the Captain America stuff. They could choose to ignore it and just publish it anyway (which I would do myself) but they must know there’s some sort of substantial loss in advertising/sales that’s just not letting them go ahead with it.

Either that or top brass in Time Warner are Tea Party Members and/or Republicans and are stopping it themselves.

The sheer fact that no one’s willing to give some sort of clear response to all this is enough of an answer.

Since everyone is making up reasons why this may or may not be happening, I’m going ahead and going to 110% assure you this book is being canceled because of West Bank settlements. You heard it here first. Also, Walt Whitman.

Way to ruin my morning. I’ve been waiting patiently for this new series. His run with JHW has to one of my favorite runs in a very long time.

I can’t believe it will not continue.

No great loss here, in my opinion. I thought the run on Detective was really overrated.

This is the WORST NEWS EVER! Those Batwoman Detective comics have been completely pushing the limits of what comic book storytelling is, and now we will not see anymore of it. Screw this Brightest Day crap. I wanted Batwoman comics, but no more. This blows.

…unless of course another great writer takes on Batwoman with J.H. Williams III on art…

I think crying homophobia’s a bit premature (and I’m a gay reader who’s fairly sensitive to those issues). Comics increasingly seem to become as liberal as their readers’ pocketbooks. If people are consistently shelling out bucks to read a lesbian Batwoman by Rucka & Williams, DC’s gonna keep putting it out there on some form as long as they can afford to pay the creators.

That aside, this news REALLY sucks. Detective Comics has been the only DC title I read b/c of Rucka/Williams Batwoman and the new series was about to make me a regular.

I enjoyed the hell out of those Batwoman Detective Comics. At a time when I couldn’t really afford to buy comics I was still buying those. I agree that it’s not smart to just jump to some conclusion comprised more of your own beliefs than those of DC Comics, but this is kind of fishy.

From stories that I had read it seemed that both Rucka and JHW3 had a vested interest in these stories and were really looking forward to publishing a Batwoman Comic. And now Rucka is not only going on record as not writing the book but also parting ways with DC entirely? That makes me think that something is up. Especially with the acclaim that book good (and well deserved in my opinion, it was my favorite book of last year by far) it’s weird that DC wouldn’t be pushing to get it released.

As much as I loved that book it was mainly for the art and the biggest travesty here is that we may not be seeing anymore of JHW3′s beautifully rendered Batwoman Strikes pages. Of course that’s assuming they don’t release the book with JHW3 and some other writer. Which I have to admit would be mildly disappointing, but only mildly.

Maybe Vic Sage can come back as the Question now?

Yes!! what Russ said! why the hell is no one else making this point?!

Another reason that crying homophobia is silly: we all knew going into this that Batwoman was a temporary stand in, that eventually (sooner rather than later, most likely) ‘Tec would go back to being a Batman book. we all knew this. didn’t we? or were we all sitting around waiting for this evetuality so we could scream “See? DC hates homosexuals!” or “I knew they’d cave under the pressure!” as soon as it happened?

Dropped ‘Tech the minute I saw the Batwoman storyline. I don’t have a problem with someone writing something that the GLADD crowd enjoys, but that does not mean I have to buy it.

Not my cup ‘o tea. Must appeal to someone because DC has devoted their flagship book (DC = Detective Comics) and a couple of high profile creators on the title.

Kyle Rayner is a minority?

Batwoman has fallen victim to some bad editorial decisions. This comes as no surprise as DC tends to take anything it produces that is the least bit different from the Jim Lee house style and dumps it in the ash can. Take for example… Ummm … Well how about that great run on… er …. huh, how about that?
Well anyway, the real reason Batwoman is leaving Detective is because she is being replaced by Dick Grayson who will be adopting a new mantle when Bruce Wayne returns as Batman! Get ready for Dective Comics starring RIGHTWING!

Kyle is half mexican. Sometimes. Whenever they remember.

My fingers are crossed for a late April Fools

PLEASE!!

Perhaps it comes down to simple economics. Has anyone thought that maybe Rucka’s exclusive contract was up for renewal and he wanted more money than DC wanted to pay? Just a guess, no facts behind it, but it makes more sense than some other theories.

Terrible news indeed. The combination of that writer with that artist doing that character was pure magic! Hopefully DC will explain the situation.

I don’t know. Is homophobia a stretch? Maybe, but it’s hard to discount the change in DC’s executive structure having something to do with this. I can’t pretend to know what, but the most obvious answer is usually the correct one.

TopJack, this is the most stupid comment ive ever see

@The shmo

Jim Lee is Anglo-Saxon??

Who cares about Batwoman. The news about more Queen & Country makes this a great news day! Sandbagger fans rejoice!

Better books have been cancelled or nipped in the past, with no political implications whatsoever. If there is more news to this story than what’s presented here, point me to it, but this article in no way indicates a cancellation because of some political agenda. This isn’t the first time a writer has up and quit a publisher in the midst of quality work. No evidence suggests this has anything to do with homophobia. Grow the fuck up!

@ Zoltan: That’s why I referred to the shifting timeline of comics. For a few years, Batwoman’s origin story will still make sense. In 10 years, it will be obsolete as DADT becomes history. It’s just like the Fantastic Four who stole a rocket to beat the commies into space. That just doesn’t work now.

The writing has been on the wall for DADT for awhile. So while Rucka created a compelling backstory for the character, he and DC must have known it would only have a limited lifespan.

Nooooooooooooo! Like others have said, the Rucka/JHW3 Detective starring Batwoman was the best thing DC had published in at least the last couple years. I’m extremely disappointed Rucka on Batwoman won’t continue.

On the other hand, new Queen & Country is great news.

Very disappointed by this news as Detective has been an incredibly inventive and very unique book. Was getting very excited about Batwoman book with him writing it. Sad to see that he is leaving DC for time being. I am sure he will be back at some point, but I wish they had let him write this for a couple of years first. Good that we will see more creator owned stuff, but still, a great new book will now be passed to someone else or buried and it was not their book, their vision, their unique perspective and style of writing and incredible art. That is why I was going to buy it, for Rucka and JHW III.

When it was announced that Batwoman’s ‘tec run was ending, Rucka did say that there would be a few projects on his plate and that he was going to have to choose between them; Looks like he made his choice…

ugh this sucks, Batwoman/Question was one of titles I started collecting monthly without fail since it started and one of my favorite titles in the last few years.

Now we get to see if DC decides to bring her back without Rucka…but that scares me because who knows what a new writer might do, like make her bi-sexual and have her start dating Dick or something…..ugh…..

YOU ARE ALL MISINFORMED LIARS!!! the REAL reason Rucka is leaving and no Batwoman series will ever be produced is because the entire industry is a GODDAMN SCIENTOLOGY MEMBERSHIP DRIVE!! STUPIDS!!!

Am I the only one who reads that he’s going to focus on Queen & Country and some other, potentially new properties and thinks, “Good!”? I didn’t dislike his Detective stuff, but it’s a DC Universe superhero book. They’ll find someone else to take over, and it’ll either be as good, or it won’t and then they’ll do it all again in six months. Creator-owned books, especially good ones like Q&C, are fewer and father between, and deserve more celebration, in my opinion.”

Creator owned books are cool, but few of them can live off them alone. Also, company-owned books feed creator-owned books and vice versa. You wouldn’t be getting Powers if Marvel didn’t keep it around to let Bendis stay happy. You wouldn’t have Invincible if Kirkman didn’t get tons of exposure at Marvel. You wouldn’t have all the great Apparat books from Warren Ellis if DC and Marvel didn’t make him famous.

Also, a creator-owned book is cool but they’re SO directly influenced by the big guys. I love Invincible because it takes a set of parameters laid by traditional superheroes like those at Marvel & DC, and blow it all to hell when necessary. You wouldn’t have one without the other. Batwoman wouldn’t have been as awesomely influential as it’s sure to be, and as critically acclaimed had it been an indie, simply because fewer people wouldn’t known about it.

I must be the only person on this thread who finds Rucka’s writing to be terrible + a bit Mary Sueish. Won’t miss him or his complaining in interviews.

Rucka has a new Queen and Country novel coming out in October.

he may be wanting a new Q&C series to coincide with the book’s release, like Marvel and DC do with their books.

DC does have a problem with showing high profile homosexual characters in prominent books. The Authority was shelved because of violence during Mark Millar’s run, but it was also relegated to second tier status because of the “Gay Superman” and “Gay Batman”, which DC proper did not seem to like (especially with the publicity that highlighted this fact)

We had a Batwoman title ever since 52, and we even got publicity from outside markets like USA Today that focused on Batwoman as a lesbian. But it took nearly a year and half for Batwoman to get an ongoing. Then we have Batwoman appearing in high profile books like Cry for Justice and suddenly she’s relegated to second tier status in those books. We have Rucka and JH William’s ongoing getting critical acclaim, but we have the title shuffled around yet again, to the point where Rucka not only does not want to do an ongoing, but doesn’t want to do ANY DC work.

It feels like DC just doesn’t want to put out a book that would garner interest outside of its line of books. Maybe a new article is coming out about Kathy Kane or possibly Kathy Kane may be a new character in the Batman film franchise. This isn’t the first time DC has stopped publishing a book due to “questionable” material (like the “Marvel Douche” incident for Alan Moore or the Swamp Thing/Jesus issue for Rich Veitch, or even more recently, the “Lenna Lerner/Superbaby” issue. I can easily see DC trying to shelve Batwoman while the popularity goes down and Rucka saying, “I can’t work for a company that keeps on shelving my book despite growing sales.”

Ever since DC Comics became DC Entertainment, these cowardly corporate decisions have become common.

So what if DC Comics published Batwoman in Detective. That was before DC Entertainment became the boss.

Me think the new boss isn’t fond of showing “the gay” in her funny books.

Horrible news! Detective Comics featuring Batwoman is the finest comics out there and I´m pretty pissed Rucka´s run will end.

Just a guess but could this be because DC let Morrison tell the ending of Rucka’s whole cult of crime /new age of crime prophesy storyline in recent issues of Batman and Robin? I was surprised when I read those issues – like isn’t this the story Rucka and Williams were building towards? DC did this with New Gods and Morrison and Starlin. It’s like their editors don’t speak to each other.

Well then how we all jump the book at a headline which noone read the “?” in. Obviously they weren’t just going to dump her. And as for everyone who didn’t get the run. You sorely missed some excellent storytelling and for you people who said Batman should be in the book…how many minis has Bruce had this year and then he has the superman/batman book and Dick has what? Seven or eight books. I think Kate Kane can be allowed one for a few months and to the dude who wants Vic Sage back as the Question…he’s dead and he’s not coming back – move on!

There may not be any specific bad blood between DC and Rucka, but I have a feeling that he is walking because he is getting tired of having to jump through hoops to get his stories told the way he wants. I know he had issues when he was writing Wonder Woman and wasn’t able to do some of the things he wanted to do. More than likely he has been running into the same situation with Batwoman. So rather than continue to slam his head against the same brick wall, my guess is he just decided it wasn’t worth the effort and he’d rather tell the stories he wants to tell using his own characters.
Regardless of the true reason, it is really disappointing he won’t be writing the character any longer. That just makes yet another character I’ve been enjoying that I won’t be reading in the future due to creative team changes (Wonder Woman and Power Girl are two more examples in recent weeks).

i’m just glad he’s going to work on a worthwhile book. queen and country kicks all kinds of tukas and was left with a bit of a cliff hanger.

This is teribble news!

The new DC power structures first job? Get rid of their best writer and the homo character in their main title.

Everyone knows that Geoff johns (and Alex Ross) are bigots. They didn’t want Obsidian ‘turned gay’ so they wouldn’t use him in JSA and didn’t want him used in Manhunter. I guess thats why Manhunter and Andreyko (despite amazing writing) are now COMPLETELY GONE (from #13) from DC.

‘We want Greg (Rucka) to write it, but he’s focusing on his career right now.’
Why couldn’t they let him bring it to Vertigo?

Geoff John’s has become a huge douche. He was once grounded and generous. Now he’s a power-mad ass.

And considering his track record with female characters, he was likely no champion of Batwoman’s.

DC Comics – the number one comic company for Tea Baggers.

The comments in this thread depress the hell out of me.

Example:

WIZARD: The last character I’m noticing on the cover of Justice Society of America #1 is Obsidian because you get a table of all these other characters you get to do in full, and all you get to draw for him is his floating eyes. Will you ever draw the full Obsidian?

ROSS: I have no idea. I don’t know that that would be the case. Obsidian being put into the JSA is a lot like him (GEOFF JOHNS) grabbing a character that’s just going to get MOLESTED further in other writer’s hands(MARC ANDREYKO). So he’s (GEOFF JOHNS)grabbing him(OBSIDIAN and putting him in the group so he at least can be shepherding this character that belongs in this association. Maybe he’ll make sure that no other writers get any “fun, creative” ideas with him.

This Queen & Country and Stumptown fan was quite happy to hear this news too. Rucka’s been saying for years that he wanted to spend more time on his creator-owned projects (which imo have definitely been better than his DC works). He’s happy and we’ll get better work. A Win-Win.

Faust, Ross was speaking for himself in that Wizard interview and later apologize for his idiocy.

He knows how he came across.

And to the shmo, that’s a movie/TV quote. Hell I heard an African American woman say it on an episode of The Mole.

So he’s quoting a previously used line.

the shmo Says:
April 3rd, 2010 at 6:48 pm

Looks like you’ve been reading mein kampf or something dude with your anti white ranting like a bigot. Grow up.

I am just as sad about this as the rest of you. But I firmly beleive that dc will make up for this by bringing in a new writer to continue where Rucka left off. Now as of the question of who, well does the name Brian Azzarello mean anything to anybody?

Chuck Dixon presents “The Death of Batwoman.” With guest appearances – and funerals – for The Question, Obsidian, blue Starman and Scandal.

With art by Mike S. Miller and covers by Alex Ross.

2011. Bet on it.

Mpierce Says:

April 4th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Chuck Dixon presents “The Death of Batwoman.” With guest appearances – and funerals – for The Question, Obsidian, blue Starman and Scandal.

With art by Mike S. Miller and covers by Alex Ross.

2011. Bet on it.

* Thats is the funniest thing I have read in a while! And you know the sad part? It will probably happen!

Can’t believe all the people citing homophobia as a reason. DC probably has the most gay characters in mainstream comics, with a few (Batwoman, Question (Renee), Starman (Mikal) in prominent positions. God forbid Greg just decided to focus on his own creations like Queen and Country and his novels.

So quick to play the homophobia card when you no less then squat.

I’m really going to miss Greg at DC, he gave me so many good stories that I’ll continue to re-read (especially Checkmate). I hope to see him back with DC when he has more stories to tell.

I’m glad to see Rucka go (and I hope he stays away from Marvel & DC) and I hope DC keeps Batwo”MAN” out of comics! If DC were making any money off of Detective comics and the Batwoman run, you would have seen it in its on comic book long before now. Rave reviews from a few warped fan sites do not sales make. Thankfully, people still value comics for great characters and stories; Batwoman had neither.

IDEA: Transexual Batman should be the next out to take her place.

Come on, DC can run the whole gamut with this one!

Unless DC put a new writer on te character and continue to have her star in Detective Comics I will no longer be buying ANY of their products. Because this bigoted bullshit is prt of a sickening homophobic trend at DC and if their going to treat Batwoman, their ONLY high profile gay character this way then I am done with those bigoted assholes

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