The page layouts are sometimes wild and abstracted and sometimes tame and straightforward. Williams III is quite evidently a talented illustrator and designer. Those thoroughly embroiled in the Bat-universe might have appreciated the book a lot more than I did. That’s the vantage from which I’m approaching the book. And I remember a couple years ago there were some news items about a Batwoman who was a lesbian and that she was somehow involved with Renee Montoya, a lesbian Gotham cop that I vaguely recall from the animated Batman series from a few years back. I know enough about Cassandra Cain and Barbara Gordon to know about their relationship as Batgirl and Oracle (though I don’t know if they’re still maintaining those identities). I’ve read a couple Batman books over the years, so I have a tacit understanding of his mythology. I am pretty much entirely unacquainted with Batwoman or Kate Kane (who plays Batwoman in the comic book adaptation of her life). I suppose some caveat should be interjected here. But let’s put the problems on hold for a moment to focus on what the book gets right. The Rucka-penned adventure comic certainly has some worthwhile moments and Williams’ art is varied enough to impress, but the book has several problems that prevent it from being better than it could be. Unfortunately, it never actually gets better than pretty good. One was pretty great and the other was Batwoman: Elegy.
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