Batwoman hero returns as lesbian

BBC online news | May 30, 2006 | BBC

[Leg Olam]

Batwoman's new look has been designed by artist Alex Ross 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

[Leg Olam]

I'll post a link in a sec.

[chesley]

Jeez! Is nothing sacred?

[Fighting Irish]

wonderful.....

[Leg Olam]

Ok, Here tis. http://www.jengajam.com/r/batwoman-returns

What a world....

[pepsi_junkie]

"[Batwoman]...is to make a comeback as a "lipstick lesbian" who moonlights as a crime fighter..."

So her full time gig is "lipstick lesbian"? Wonder how much that pays?

[Fighting Irish]

WWJD?

What Would Julie (Newmar) Do?

[BenLurkin]

[Red Badger]

Lemme guess, She and Cat Woman are a pair?...........

[frogjerk]

Jeez! Is nothing sacred?

Come on! It's only FICTION!!! -sarc

[Red Badger]

Her arch nemesis is Dick Tracy..........

[SJSAMPLE]

Why not?
Comic book heroines are just as fictional as "lipstick" lesbians ;)

[sine_nomine]

This is where we need a Hillary face on Batwoman.

PhotoShop buffs - I challenge you to create the best Hillary Batwoman, or the Beast Hillary Batwoman.

[Perdogg]

Does this mean she'll be in Penthouse?

[longtermmemmory]

you have got to be joking!

This is truly sick. Somebody watched too much last season of xena, politically correct princess.

So whoever is taking the crack at DC is:

tried, and failed to far, to make jimmy olson a homosexual.
failed to keep the green lantern a homosexual
lois lane is a single mother in the new movie
implied catwoman was a lesbian.
and now bat woman is a "lipsick lesbian"?!?!

So they are not touching the cash cow of Barbara Gordon but screwing with some fourth level crap to push the pc agenda. It makes you miss the comics code authority.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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.

I guess being dead all these years has had an odd affect on her.

[tet68]

Her alter ego is probably a carpenter.

[chesley]

OK, call me a homophobe, not that there's anything wrong with that, but frankly, I don't want to know if the Wizard was transgendered, or if Daddy Warbucks was a pedophile, or if Superman had a wife on every planet.

As you say, and I appreciate the sarcasm tag, it's only fiction, but it ruin childhood memories for me.

[longtermmemmory]

IN RELATED NEWS FROM THE SAME LINK:




Gallery told to drop 'gay' Batman

The Batman character was revived in recent hit movie Batman Begins
DC Comics has ordered a New York gallery to remove pictures which show Batman and Robin kissing and embracing.
The Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts gallery was told it would face legal action unless it removed watercolours of the superhero by artist Mark Chamberlain.

"DC Comics wants me to hand over all unsold work," said Ms Cullen.

Arts website Artnet was also told to remove the series of semi-naked images of Batman and Robin from its website. DC Comics was unavailable to comment.

Homoerotic poses

The colour pictures, which depict the superheroes in a number of homoerotic poses, were put on display in the gallery in February.

Seven images from the collection were subsequently displayed on the Artnet site.

Artist Chamberlain's works have been exhibited in numerous Manhattan galleries since 1991, with collections entitled Neo-Erotic and Gender Tennis among others.

Two years ago an artwork featuring Kylie Minogue's bottom was pulled from the Royal Academy's summer show after the singer's lawyers complained.

[longtermmemmory]

no but you can bet the man in the wheelchair will have a sufficiently ambiguious almost costumed duplicate!

[Texas_Jarhead]

"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. "