Along her mission to stop them though she has to deal with the trauma of her past and discovers a life-changing secret about her family. This cult nearly killed Batwoman before, in an event that is quickly recapped, making this personal for her. The main story sees Batwoman having to confront a cult lead by a woman named Alice, who has stylized herself on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. While some may complain at having to double-dip, its only a small issue since you’re not only getting all of Rucka’s Batwoman run, but Williams’ gorgeous art is worth the price of double-dipping. The book collects the issues previously seen in the Batwoman: Elegy collection, though also contains the never-before-collected ‘Cutter’ storyline that artist Jock illustrated. Williams III, the complete collection of their take on the character.
With Batwoman a few issues into her new series in the DC Rebirth era, now is a perfect time to revisit her past in Batwoman by Greg Rucka and J.H. Since her introduction to the DC universe, Kate Kane, aka Batwoman, has become a fan-favourite character and a great addition to the already great Bat-family.
Williams III and Jock’s legendary run of Batwoman adventures from DETECTIVE COMICS #854-863 are collected in a single title for the first time! In these stories, Kate Kane takes on the Religion of Crime and struggles to save Gotham City from the surreal villainy of Alice. Rucka's writing also deepens on closer examination, mostly because his Batwoman, Kate Kane, is a superhero like no other: don't-ask/don't-tell'ed out of the Marines, she treats her spandex-and-Kevlar work as a kind of military service that gives her life meaning.Ricky Church reviews Batwoman by Greg Rucka and J.H. The second half of the book, “Go,” is Batwoman's origin story and the history of her relationship with her father Williams actually adopts different visual aesthetics for different types of flashbacks within it, including a clever pastiche of David Mazzucchelli's Batman: Year One Almost every page is some kind of visual set piece with symbolic resonance, and the big action scenes are as thrilling as superhero comics get.
The obvious attraction is Williams and colorist Dave Stewart's artwork, whose mutable style and wildly inventive layouts get across the story's twisted chronology and psychological subtleties all by themselves. In practice, it's spectacular-the kind of adventure story that you race through the first time and return to, to pore over slowly.
On the surface, this is a fairly straightforward superhero thriller, in which the new (lesbian, tattooed, Jewish) Batwoman tussles with a crime-worshipping cult that's trying to poison Gotham City, and discovers how her personal history is entwined with that of their leader, a pale, murderous Lewis Carroll–quoting porcelain goth.
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