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A review by haunted_air
Batwoman, Volume 6: The Unknowns by Georges Jeanty, Jason Masters, Dexter Vines, Yishan Li, Jack Purcell, Karl Story, Roger Bonet, Scott Hanna, Roberto Viacava, Marc Andreyko, Juan José Ryp, Jeremy Haun, Trevor McCarthy, Ronan Cliquet
3.0
I really like Alice/Beth in this story and where the relationship of the Kane sisters ends up at the end.
The rest of it...not so much.
While I don't mind a team-up, I don't like how Kate's role in her own series got smaller as the story was following other characters as well giving them internal monologue speech bubbles. This was fine with Alice, who is an established character but I really didn't care about the others.
It's great that the supernatural elements and villains not gone and we don't have to deal with Batwoman fighting an art thief or whatever like in the previous volume, but the story is not well executed.
Was the vampire storyline really necessary?
And based on the ending, there seems to be hope for Maggie and Kate? Which obviously went nowhere after the series was cancelled and the relationship hasn't been revisited since, save for the alternate universe Bombshells.
It's a shame the series ended like this. Thankfully, this wasn't the first and last Batwoman solo title and the Rebirth one was good but it's also over, with no plans announced to restart it. I hope the reason is that DC is waiting for the live action appearance of Batwoman and the potential tv show but they'd better not leave Kate behind in the comics.
The rest of it...not so much.
While I don't mind a team-up, I don't like how Kate's role in her own series got smaller as the story was following other characters as well giving them internal monologue speech bubbles. This was fine with Alice, who is an established character but I really didn't care about the others.
It's great that the supernatural elements and villains not gone and we don't have to deal with Batwoman fighting an art thief or whatever like in the previous volume, but the story is not well executed.
Was the vampire storyline really necessary?
Spoiler
I get it, lesbians and vampires have a strong tie in our culture and it can be done well (Carmilla webseries). I'm not against the idea of Batwoman facing off against a vampire but to have her be controlled by one and losing most of her agency is bs. And how this speaks of wlw relationships is questionable at best, especially Nocturna's comment about how she hasn't been with a woman since college. The stereotype of women experimenting in college and their interest in woman being a phase is bad and has no place in a comic series that was doing a great job with representation. At least Alice's Hammer film reference was fun?And based on the ending, there seems to be hope for Maggie and Kate? Which obviously went nowhere after the series was cancelled and the relationship hasn't been revisited since, save for the alternate universe Bombshells.
It's a shame the series ended like this. Thankfully, this wasn't the first and last Batwoman solo title and the Rebirth one was good but it's also over, with no plans announced to restart it. I hope the reason is that DC is waiting for the live action appearance of Batwoman and the potential tv show but they'd better not leave Kate behind in the comics.