Kathy and Bette Kane 2023 Appreciation

[signalman112]

Nice mock cover by Brendon and Brian Fraim.

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[Digifiend]

Bette was in Legion of Bloom today. It seems Flamebird just can't accept that Titans West is history...
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-c...ppen-spoilers/

[signalman112]

Sketch by John Shepard Rose.

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[signalman112]

James Tucker sketch.

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[Frontier]

Sketch by John Shepard Rose.

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A female crime-fighter always has to be prepared!

James Tucker sketch.

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Classic and classy!

[signalman112]

Ed Benes Sketch.

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[hotroddii]

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[Oberon]

I look forward to anything about these characters.
I have a feeling something may happen ....

[Katana500]

I look forward to anything about these characters.
I have a feeling something may happen ....

What makes you think that!

[Oberon]

Oh dear! I 'd rather not say, because I'd be laughed at, or 'wrong'.

[Katana500]

Oh dear! I 'd rather not say, because I'd be laughed at, or 'wrong'.

Haha do not worry we wont judge!

I've been wrong many a time! I'm genuinely curious

[Oberon]

Haha do not worry we wont judge!

I've been wrong many a time! I'm genuinely curious

Thank you. Okay, I am often behind in comics, sometimes even a few months so if this has happened or 'revealed', okay.

In Batman INC, there is a character who showed up called 'Oryx'

I don't believe their identity has been revealed but

I think it is a new version of Flamebird, Bette Kane.

She finally got tired of Batwoman and the Bat family to take her seriously and after her exile to West Point, she is back

in secret.

What else? Well Bette has been imagined as her own "Batwoman" at least twice, both in the Silver Age (before the new Batgirl, Babs, ovviously through Alfred's imaginary stories)

and somewhere 20 years or so ago in a Titans Tomorrow.

The colors of Oryx are pretty similar to Bette's latter version of Batwoman.

I have only seen a few panels of that issue so I'm not getting a full story perhaps.
But unlike other attempts to remake Bette (Hawkfire)

this one seems to be a better idea, if I've got it.

Although there is no specific canon, Bette or Betty was a natural athlete, who was trained by:

Batwoman 1
Batman/Bat family
Batwoman 2
various other characters, possibly, through Teen Titans.

She should not longer be the untrained novice!

[millernumber1]

Michael Conrad on twitter mentioned that he and Cloonan originally did have plans to use Bette Kane starting in issues 7-8 - she would have been in the Penguin's club, and joined up with the group from there. But editorial had other plans. He hopes that she'll get used again soon after Legion of Bloom!

[Oberon]

Another reason I felt the character and her costume colors suggested Bette Kane
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is when I looked at the symbolism behind an oryx (a deer or gazelle like animal btw)

I found: In general, Oryx symbolism is a sign that you are doing what you were born to do. In other words, this spirit animal says that the career or vocation you’ve chosen is in perfect alignment with your life’s purpose.

And I thought in some ways, Bette has represented this about herself, that she always felt called to be this person, crimefighting, even though she could never be seen as valuable to others (and personally, this is the reason why I relate to her so much, same for me in my own life).

Despite the decades of shotty treatment by the heroes around her, the constant belittling or suggestions that she back out, she has now ended up

"doing what she felt she was born to do"
So I hope it could end up being true. What a twist, especially with such an underused gem of a character.

[Oberon]

Step forward Bette/Betty Kane, it's time
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