Today is a good day for female Bat-character news — earlier today, DC Comics announced Dustin Nguyen as the new Batgirl artist, and here comes new details from the publisher on the upcoming Batwoman ongoing series, to be co-written and drawn by J.H. Williams III and starring the Kate Kane version of the character, introduced in 52.
Announced Friday afternoon on official DC Universe blog The Source, Batwoman will debut in November with a #0 issue, co-written by Williams and series co-writer W. Haden Blackman. Art will be handled both by Williams and Madame Xanadu artist Amy Reeder — who illustrated the above image, and is scheduled to alternate arcs with Williams.
The series proper will get started in February, will Williams handling art duties on the first arc, and Reeder on the second. The Batwoman character has received a good deal of mainstream media attention for being the “first major gay DC superhero.”
The Source post has quotes from the creative team, with Williams saying that #0 is “a real combination of everyone’s efforts due to the nature of the story and how it’s constructed.”
August 13th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
If I wasn’t before, I am SOLD on Reeder’s work on the book.
I can’t wait for this issue to hit the stands!
August 13th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
JH Williams is amazing but I was hoping to have All Reeder all the time
I think she is outstanding and lean a little more towards here style in terms of favorites 
Even still I am glad to see this title even existing.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
I’m excited for the batwoman book, J.H. Williams’ art is fantastic and looking forward to seeing the character in action again.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
It’s about freaking time! And here’s hoping Bette Kane/Flamebird will be involved as well!
August 13th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Price?
August 13th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Amy Reeder = I will pick this up.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
I cannot wait!! I loved the Batwoman stories in DETECTIVE and have been waiting for this. And I also hope Bette Kane/Flamebird will be involved as well.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Awesome, I’ve been waiting to hear about this. Now I have to decide if I want to read this now or wait for a nice hardcover.
August 13th, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Great news, but I will miss Amy Reeder’s art on the great Madame Xanadu.
August 13th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I was just talking about this with someone this morning. I adored Rucka’s run on Detective Comics. Heres hoping Batwoman’s ongoing series will live up to expectations.
August 13th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
The serious you’ve obviously waiting for in the news and obviously cancelled in less than a year.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
This character stood on her own in detective. Great story, great art. The Crime Bible is a long term concept that has legs and eventually Alice will show up again, these are good things. Build up the rogues, lightly pepper in some Bat Family and DCU characters and you have a winner, critical and commercial. Don’t hate. Maybe a movie isn’t in the cards soon but Batwoman is a good comic book character. I can’t think of a brand new character created in the last ten years at Marvel or DC that has as much potential. With some smart planning this creative team could do two solid years of stories. My guess is that there is enough lead time for the first two arcs to be nearly done by now (6 issues each?). Year two could get tight but by year three we’ll likely see a third artist on the book. Not a bad thing in my book, there are some great artists out there. The Jock issues worked fine for me. I paid for the detective run in floppies and hardcover. My dollars will vote for this book to stay on the stands.
August 14th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Loved the run on Tec’ and will be looking at this. Why ‘looking’? because it’s just dawned on me this may just be a tie in to the whole Batman Inc’ books. Unless this character holds her own in her own book (which she obviously can) without turning into Batman and Batwoman every month then I won’t be getting it.
But it does look promising.
August 14th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Bleh. Batwoman is far and away the most boring character DC has ever tried. I appreciate the effort at making her different, but it just comes off as convoluted and uninteresting. Such a dull, wooden character. Especially since they seemingly have gone out of their way to keep her so separate from the main Bat-books and Bat-family in general.
August 14th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Reeder’s style reminds me of Kaluta.
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August 15th, 2010 at 1:22 am
This is great. Amy Reeder and JHW3 alternating on art duties is awesome. And it’s out in November? Awesome that it’s so soon. I was pretty sure this would take forever or be cancelled before then… doing the happy dance.
August 15th, 2010 at 6:18 am
Fantastic. Really looking forward to this.
August 15th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Kate looks like a clueless teen in that cover. Doesn’t bode well….
January 17th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Thank you for your wonderful submit.