Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Batwoman
Exciting news today of the new Batwoman. She's going to be a lesbian socialite!!
This is not the first time that DC have toyed with a lesbian lead character - Alan Moore already had that pretty well covered with Cobweb within DC's ABC comic line - and in a very creative and humorous way too.
Nevertheless, we should support diversity in comic books as much as possible - maybe one day we will see more non-superhero comic books from DC and Marvel. A couple of years ago I pitched to them an idea for a soap opera comic book called Celebration, based loosely on the Disney-created perfect community in Florida. I now offer this to the public domain because DC just laughed at me - and yet I promise I had good plots, mystery, suspense, cliffhangers, female characters to die for (think Desperate Housewives) and so on - but not a superhero in sight. I felt their rejection lacked imagination, so now the idea is yours - go to it.
Meanwhile, I am looking forward to the new Batwoman - I always did have a soft spot for Kathy Kane, even though I'm not quite sure why.
Not many people know this department. In 1966, on the back of the Batman TV series, there was a totally illegal Mexican spin-off movie called 'The Wild World of Batwoman'. You can find out more here:
http://www.agonybooth.com/batwoman/
http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/wbatwoman/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/evilskip42/batwoman.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061191/
This is not the first time that DC have toyed with a lesbian lead character - Alan Moore already had that pretty well covered with Cobweb within DC's ABC comic line - and in a very creative and humorous way too.
Nevertheless, we should support diversity in comic books as much as possible - maybe one day we will see more non-superhero comic books from DC and Marvel. A couple of years ago I pitched to them an idea for a soap opera comic book called Celebration, based loosely on the Disney-created perfect community in Florida. I now offer this to the public domain because DC just laughed at me - and yet I promise I had good plots, mystery, suspense, cliffhangers, female characters to die for (think Desperate Housewives) and so on - but not a superhero in sight. I felt their rejection lacked imagination, so now the idea is yours - go to it.
Meanwhile, I am looking forward to the new Batwoman - I always did have a soft spot for Kathy Kane, even though I'm not quite sure why.
Not many people know this department. In 1966, on the back of the Batman TV series, there was a totally illegal Mexican spin-off movie called 'The Wild World of Batwoman'. You can find out more here:
http://www.agonybooth.com/batwoman/
http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/wbatwoman/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/evilskip42/batwoman.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061191/
