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 Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman do not play a part.
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.
Very interesting. It will sell in the UK only? I would hope that it will be available here in the U.S. or I'm going to have to get peregr!n to send it my way.
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I hear it's mainstream, but I also heard it was Catwoman turning the gay.
Tell me, I always thought 'lipstick' lesbians where the chicks that just got drunk and kissed their chick friends, isn't that right? I mean, I think it's right, but is the terminology correct... eh? Eh? Funny? Yeah.
Lipstick lesbian
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lipstick lesbian is a slang term for a feminine homosexual woman who is attracted to another feminine woman, rather than a lesbian who is attracted to a more masculine woman, such as in a "butch and femme"-type relationship. The term is thought to have emerged in the early 1990s.
In American films, lesbians are often portrayed according to the lipstick lesbian stereotype, to be both politically safer and more sexually attractive to male viewers. A good example is Showtime's television series The L Word, which presents most of its major lesbian characters in this way.
The term has also been reinterpreted as a derogatory reference to feigned lesbianism - as easy as lipstick to add or remove. (It is derogatory because most people who experience same-sex attraction would be offended at the notion that it is "chosen".)
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In the TV series with Adam West, there was a "thing" going on between Batman and Batgirl. I guess with the introduction of a lesbian Batwoman, any hope for a heterosexual relationship goes out the door. Why can't people leave well enough alone!!
I doubt people really hold too much stock in whatever went on in the Adam West TV series it was more a joke than anything else. It was a pretty funny show though. The movie still cracks me up.
Though are Batwoman and Batgirl the same person?
Anywhoo, good on Batwoman for finally coming out! Must've been hard... I don't know how the sketch artists are going to explain it to their parents I hope they're understanding, though, and don't kick the artists out of the basement or garage.
"I'm for it so we can put Nuclear power plants up there, and then beam the power back to earth on a laser beam." ~ Whidden
Caped Crusader said this in post #10 : In the TV series with Adam West, there was a "thing" going on between Batman and Batgirl. I guess with the introduction of a lesbian Batwoman, any hope for a heterosexual relationship goes out the door. Why can't people leave well enough alone!!
Why can't banned people leave well enough alone?
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05-31-2006 08:49 PM
it was more a joke than anything else. It was a pretty funny show though. The movie still cracks me up.
I hope they're understanding, though, and don't kick the artists out of the basement or garage.
missed that one...
