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A review by thingslucyreads
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
1.0
This is a hot mess. Batwoman was always a smart series, about bigger issues than the latest baddies assaulting Gotham. Kate Kane was not a 20 year old with delusions of grandeur. She was an adult; a soldier who wore the suit to serve her country in the only way she could after being thrown out of West Point. She was in a healthy relationship that was not always easy, but she and Maggie valued each other enough to keep working at it.
Now we have Kate and Maggie at each other throats like petty teenagers instead of talking out their issues like the adults they are, Kate in an awful abusive relationship that is being presented as normal (including some lovely rape victim-blaming, and was Nocturna's little speech about her abusive stepfather supposed to justify her behaviour? :/), and a bunch of completely random new characters who showed up out of nowhere and have no connection to any previous story arc.
Also for the love of god I just want SOMEONE to explain how Kate's sister survived and became Alice. If you're going to reuse her more times than Moffat reuses Daleks, I'll need a goddamn origin story. And I understand that quoting Alice in Wonderland is this character's thing, but half of those quotes were taken from Tim Burton's film, not Lewis Carroll's book. Not only were the quotes lazy but the whole shtick was poorly executed and was annoying instead of clever. Let's not even talk about the totally random Harry Potter and Hunger Games references.
And what the FUCK was that ending?!
When Andreyko's run started to tank DC should have brought Williams and Blackman back and just let Kate and Maggie get married on the page. Maybe then one of their most promising titles wouldn't have ended up down the toilet. I'm almost glad this got axed before it could get any worse, but mostly I'm just angry at DC for being so careless with such an important diverse title.
Now we have Kate and Maggie at each other throats like petty teenagers instead of talking out their issues like the adults they are, Kate in an awful abusive relationship that is being presented as normal (including some lovely rape victim-blaming, and was Nocturna's little speech about her abusive stepfather supposed to justify her behaviour? :/), and a bunch of completely random new characters who showed up out of nowhere and have no connection to any previous story arc.
Also for the love of god I just want SOMEONE to explain how Kate's sister survived and became Alice. If you're going to reuse her more times than Moffat reuses Daleks, I'll need a goddamn origin story. And I understand that quoting Alice in Wonderland is this character's thing, but half of those quotes were taken from Tim Burton's film, not Lewis Carroll's book. Not only were the quotes lazy but the whole shtick was poorly executed and was annoying instead of clever. Let's not even talk about the totally random Harry Potter and Hunger Games references.
And what the FUCK was that ending?!
When Andreyko's run started to tank DC should have brought Williams and Blackman back and just let Kate and Maggie get married on the page. Maybe then one of their most promising titles wouldn't have ended up down the toilet. I'm almost glad this got axed before it could get any worse, but mostly I'm just angry at DC for being so careless with such an important diverse title.