More cool than silly, actually. Yesterday I spent the day mostly away from keyboard, being in a bit of a comics mood. I alphabetized all the Marvels I've read these past couple years but haven't yet filed in with the others on our bookshelves; finished the few indies I had and put them away (unsorted, as that's a major production since I sort indie "pamphlets" alphabetically by company first); and wrapped up reading DC's Infinite Crisis series, in preparation to start reading their new series 52 and find out what all the Batwoman fuss is about. Not having gotten to the issue in question I'm inclined to agree with Ragnell that the outside-comics media seems to be making a bigger deal out of this than DC or industry folks. It's not like Kate Kane (which, come on admit it, doesn't have the ring of the original Batwoman name "Kathy Kane" at all, does it?) is their first gay character or anything. But hey, it gives me an excuse to pop up in various non-comics blogs and comment, in response to people asking "I never heard of Batwoman, but isn't/wasn't there a Batgirl?", that the former Batgirl named Barbara Gordon is now operating as codename Oracle and stars in a monthly series called Birds of Prey on which my husband happens to work. :) Anyway, speaking of all that, Ragnell also pointed to a new site called Girl-Wonder.org, "dedicated to females in mainstream comics. Our goals are to foster an attentive, empowered audience community and to encourage respect and high-quality character depiction within the industry." Obviously by "females in comics" they mean the two-dimensional kind, not the actual people who might have something to do with changing the way female characters are depicted if there were more of them in editorial and on creative teams, but every little bit helps, and it'll be nice to have a new regular version of Gail Simone's incomparable Women in Refrigerators. Now, if only they'd get themselves an RSS feed...
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