Batwoman Returns...

as a Lesbian.

Comic book heroine Batwoman is to make a comeback as a "lipstick lesbian" who moonlights as a crime fighter, a DC Comics spokesman has confirmed.

Batwoman - real name Kathy Kane - will appear in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication that began this month.

In her latest incarnation, she is a rich socialite who has a romantic history with another 52 character, ex-police detective Renee Montoya.

52 will be published in the UK as a graphic novel by Titan Books in 2007.

The series is set in a world in which established superheroes like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman no longer play a part.

Reinvention

The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically and sexually diverse characters entering the DC Comics universe.

Others include Mexican teenager Blue Beetle - who replaces the character's previous white incarnation - and the Great Ten, a government-sponsored team of Chinese superheroes.

Regular characters Firestorm and The Atom, meanwhile, have been reinvented as black and Asian heroes respectively.

The characters are part of a wider effort to broaden the make-up of comic-book creations in line with society as a whole.

Batwoman, who first appeared in July 1956, has not been seen since September 1979 when she was killed by the League of Assassins and the Bronze Tiger.

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Hmm its all very well altering characters to make them"ethnically and sexually diverse characters" but one wonders why they made the woman gay and not one of the guys. Is it perhaps to appeal to the men who think lesbians are hot and acceptable but gay guys are not ? Would the world look at Batman the same way if he was gay ?
One thing that pisses me off is a guy who will shreak like a little girl if he sees two man kissing on tv but drool all over the screen if its two women.If they can accept one then they should accept the other side of the coin too.
IMO they should leave the old characters as they are and introduce new ones.