Maple Sugar

Absolutely.

I didn’t expect to like Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III’s Batwoman story in the pages of Detective Comics.  The company’s titular monthly series, a Batman series, with someone else on the cover?  It felt wrong.

Then I actually read it.  Kate Kane was one of the best new characters I’d seen in ages.  She felt so well-realized and so real that I couldn’t help but become a fan.  The art certainly helped - it’s gorgeous like nothing else in the industry and I wanted more more more.

Then the arc ended.  Rucka left DC.  Eventually, the company announced an ongoing Batwoman series for the character, but various delays kept it from coming out.

Until now.

It’s good.  Like, real good.  So good I can’t believe you’re not reading it already.  Stunning.  Need more convincing?  I talk about it at relative length here.

Welcome back, Kate Kane.

(Art by the fantasmariffic kateordie)