I dont think I had ever heard of her until the Mockingbird one shot, but man she is awesome!! (Im hoping Marvel is able to lure her into drawing the Mock ongoing) but yeah, she would be killer on a book with Bette!
I dont think I had ever heard of her until the Mockingbird one shot, but man she is awesome!! (Im hoping Marvel is able to lure her into drawing the Mock ongoing) but yeah, she would be killer on a book with Bette!
Flamebirdby OBrianTallent
Let's dream a little...you've been made an editor at DC and you get to put together a Flamebird mini series. It seems that someone in the upper offices kind of likes the ol' gal and wants to see what a series would do. You can write it, you can draw it or you can hire someone else to. What's the pitch...
Writer: Matt Wagner
Artist: Cliff Chiang
[Evening sets in and Bette steps out of a cab in front of her home]
Things were finally settling down in Gotham City for young Bette Kane. Classes are ready to go for her sophomore year at Gotham U. Bette made sure to pick the best courses to help her exceed in her constant mission for justice. A cold flowing breeze caused a shiver to run through her and it made her smile. She may have grown up in sunny Southern California, but she was born here in the cold, damp city of Gotham.
[Getting ready for bed]
Bette was just a toddler when her parents packed up their belongings and headed west. To this day they have never given her a clear answer why. The Kanes are one of Gotham’s most affluent and prestigious founders. She just couldn’t understand why her father would leave such a legacy behind. Bette let the question linger in her mind as she crawled into bed and let sleep take her.
[Next Day, Gotham University]
Heading to her psyche class Bette is bumped in the hall and her satchel falls to the ground. As she gathers her belongings back up she looks up to see who had run into her. A glimpse of a slender girl wearing a hoodie quickly scurried from her sight. As Bette looked back down to pick up her satchel she notices an unfamiliar envelope amongst her things. Bette sees her last name written on it with blood smeared across it. Her eyes widen when she turns the envelope around to the back. She stands up and whispers the words she sees written on the back….
“Beware the Court of Owls, that watches all the time,
Ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime.
They watch you at your hearth; they watch you in your bed.
Speak not a whispered word about them, or they'll send the Talon for your head.”
Perhaps now Bette Kane knows a little bit….why her father left. There's always trouble to be found in Gotham. Stay tuned for the first mystery arc of Flamebird’s first solo series.
Last edited by Herowatcher; 10-26-2015 at 10:53 PM.
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.
While I like most of the elements of this new backstory or plot, I would hate to totally lose the Silver age stuff, with Bette/y being "Bat-girl" to Kathy Kane's Batwoman. Espeically since Batman, INC went a ways towards supporting her pre-crisis origins.
The later post which ties the Kanes or Bette's father into Court of Owls is workable for me; perhaps Bette was going to be targeted the same way Dick was (so something else that 'ties' them together. In addition, my reading between the lines of the whole Dr. D/Kathy Kane/Spyral thing is that Bette was possibly going to be the proto-type for those Batwoman-like young women with the skull masks in INC;.
All of these elements create an interesting new take on Bat-girl on her way to Flamebird.
I like this idea of having a grandparent who was hero-ing in the '40s or whenever. Especially since we have Court/Owls ' presence long being in Gotham *and* Batman's own connections to Gotham's past over generations.
from Titans Annual #1...Bette was great in this issue.
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Miss congeniality...always finding the good in something.
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.
Bette Kane /Flamebird needs her on trade.
There's a lot of stories out there with her in them.
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.
It’s time DC turns its attention on Bette Kane IMO.
I’m amaze with all these Court of Owls plots injected into the Batverse that Bette is not involved.
I for one would like to know how the Court has affected the Kane Family.
This family has barely been explored and Bette would make a great main character to explore its past and present.
After all she’s gone through; I would think Bette has earned the right to be a major player and not just a pretty face.
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.
I like this tale from Batman #163.
A future tale by Alfred where Kathy Kane is married to Bruce and Betty Kane becomes Batwoman.
It's funny that many years later, Post-COIE, Bette Kane's future self would repeat that in Teen Titans [vol.3] #17-19.
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"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics
"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does? - Gaff Blade Runner
"In a short time, this will be a long time ago." - Werner Slow West
"One of the biggest problems in the industry is apathy right now." - Dan Didio Co-Publisher of I Wonder Why That Is Comics
That means sometimes the silver age rocks in ways that gritty faux-dark realism never will. The flying hand dude reminds me of a Dick Tracy type. Watch out if the baddie fingers you, Batwoman II!
Rebirth
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.
If rumors are true that Batwoman will lead Detective Comics, then there's hope we'll see Bette Kane appear as well.
"History of the DC Universe" by Wolfman and Perez, when the DCU use to make sense.