Detective Comics #861

[thebigapricot]

Batwoman's new relationship?

The issue flips between Bruce!Batman working on a case in the past and Kate working on one in the present. The present day case involves is a crazy named the "Cutter" who is kidnapping college co-eds and hacking off pieces of their body. Kate finds one of the girls being held and battles the Cutter. Which leads to these two pages.


They contrast these pages with Bruce!Batman in a similar meeting with Gordon so clearly Maggie is being positioned as potentially Kate's Jim Gordon. I like the idea of Kate having her own contact in the police department. It will be interesting to see if it is indeed Maggie and if they'll have any follow up on the flirting between them from a few issues back. That would add an interesting twist to the relationship.


Suggested tags
char: batwoman/kate kane
char: maggie sawyer
title: detective comics

Comments

[bluefall]

I will be so intensely pleased and impressed if Kate and Maggie do not so much as smile at each other ever again. Not just because of Toby, which I'm still mad about, thanks, but because oh my God two lesbians who are simply friends, that does not even happen in fiction, and it would blow my tiny representationally-starved dyke mind.

[northstarfan]

Compromise? Kate and Maggie can date, Captain Sawyer and Batwoman can be professional partners? ;)

Yes, I know, even worse idea and laden with too many tropes to list. Commence with the beating.

[thebigapricot]

It would be great if they were just friends. But I thought girls in comics don't have friends? Honestly, I think the best twist would be to have Kate tell her Maggie who she was and avoid the whole "secret identity" part of the Gordon/Bruce!Batman relationship.

[diamonette]

You know, this. Or alternately I'd like to see her in a long-term relationship. Neither will likely happen but at any rate I have still enjoyed the way Kate is written probably more than any other female character in the DCU, so I can't complain too much.

[bwhahahabeck]

I would agree with this so much.