I'm glad to say that the buzz surrounding Batwoman's appearance in Detective Comics has been a positive one so far. I've read loads of great reviews and more people have given it a shot and are pleased with what Greg Rucka and JH Wiliams have done on #854.

Well if your like me and are keen to follow what's happening with this title, then head on over to Dallas Voice, who have recently interviewed Greg Rucka... now I've been very silent of the media's incessant focus on Kate Kane being a lesbian and personally I'm getting a little tired of it now!!! So Batwoman's a lesbian, how does that stop her from kicking arse!!!

It also forced DC and Rucka to ramp up the development of the character.

“I don’t recall anyone saying ‘We are going to do a Batwoman book and you are going to write it,’” Rucka says. “There was lots of concept work done by another writer, so I reworked it into something that made sense for me. It was a two-year process to get it to where it was going to go.”

For Rucka — who is also a novelist and graphic-novel author — that meant taking the character very seriously. (“The term ‘comic-book-y’ is used pejoratively, but I reject that,” he says.) He wanted to create something unique. He spent two years putting together a 100-page bible that only he and one other person, DC editor-in-chief Dan DiDio, have ever seen. Ink on the first issue is barely dry, and Rucka already has more backstory than a season of “Lost.”

“You can’t write the character if you don’t know their origins. We’ve got the first 18 issues [written] and of those, seven are pretty much done. That puts us reasonably ahead of the game for a monthly [book],” he says.

And, he promises, there are surprises in store.

For the entire interview click here...

(Source - Dallas Voice)