Greg Rucka talks further to xtra.ca about the creation Batwoman and her appearance in Detective Comics this month. The interview also talks about her sexuality and the media frenzy that was created over Kate Kane being a lesbian.

What makes the new-and-improved Kate Kane an equal to Batman — not as another Batgirl but as a Batwoman? “For lack of a better phrase she’s looking for a way to serve and has been denied it elsewhere,” says Rucka. “One of the things that becomes clear in the run, one of the differentiators that JH Williams III [who’s the artist on the book] and I really want with Kate, is that she couldn’t be Batman with breasts, she had to be a different take on the character.

“Batman is a demon, he’s a gargoyle. And I wanted Kate to be more seductive and consequently I would think more likely to take people by surprise. Batman’s agenda is a fear agenda, where his main tool is ‘Boo!’ They turn around and there’s a guy and he looks like a giant fucking bat.

“Their reaction to Kate is, yes, surprise and alarm, fear. But the way I see it is she’s more like a succubus when she wants information. She will coax it out of you, tease it out of you.... It doesn’t make her any less viable or frankly any less dangerous than Batman. In fact if you go back and look at the fight scenes that have been released, every time I have written her in a fight, I have tried to make her even more brutally efficient than Batman. Batman tends to punch people in jaws, Kate breaks elbows, she goes for joints, she takes you down really quick. When she throws that switch she doesn’t mess around.

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(Source - xtra.ca)