Man, this has not been a good week for Kate Kane appearances. Her role in
The Other History #4 sucked and now
Truth and Justice #13 has her getting so stressed out from facing Nocturna again that she has to go for a vacation.
Really? I get that Nocturna abused Kate, but Kate also stomped Nocturna's teeth out of her head at the end of the New 52, and more importantly hasn't had any lingering affects from that abuse in the form of, say, panic attacks or nightmares or the like. It doesn't help that this is the second Batwoman story in just over a year to feature Nocturna again, without many (or any) other Batwoman stories in the interim. There's no unfinished business with Nocturna, no dangling plot threads. So why do writers keep going back to her?
Additionally, like that previous Nocturna story, this one also feature Kate calling upon Maggie.
Why? They haven't been a thing for, what seven years now? Does no one at DC realize Kate and Renee are still a couple?
Fortunately, those two things along with some other details lead me to believe that this isn't a canon story. That's not just wishful thinking on my part, because I
wanted this to be an actual, meaningful story. Not necessarily in the sense of big or character altering, but something to proudly add to Kate's history. But I can't say that now, and since she shows up so sporadically in main comic roles now, I don't know when that will be true again after June.
Edit:
After looking up the initial press release for
Truth and Justice, it was compared to other confirmed "continuity free" series like
Sensation Comics and
Legends of the Dark Knight, so it's always been the same sort of series, it seems. That takes the edge off things a little. Whew.