Kate Kane: Batwoman Appreciation 2018

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I tweeted a bit the other day about how Kate's trek through the Sahara in issue #7 (and specifically the effects she experiences) are all plausible, which I thought was pretty neat. I'm only screencapping it because I don't want to retype it.

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Kind of a minor batch of details, but they add so much. Come to think of it, that can be said for a lot of things in Kate's history.

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"The Batwoman Who Laughs" by Chad Heinrich:

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(I wish more people remembered/knew that Kate's a guitarist.)

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More Fernando Blanco WIP:

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(Not 100% certain it's from Batwoman, but it's likely)

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By Jeremiah Lambert:

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By Bill Tucci:

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By Pierre-Henri Gaffuri:

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Scott Godlewski just posted on Instagram that he's on three issues of Batwoman. So either that arc is only three issues and the seventh issue of this multi-arc story is a standalone issue (or part 2 of "Pax Batmana"), or a different artist is doing one of the issues in that arc.

[millernumber1]

Scott Godlewski just posted on Instagram that he's on three issues of Batwoman. So either that arc is only three issues and the seventh issue of this multi-arc story is a standalone issue (or part 2 of "Pax Batmana"), or a different artist is doing one of the issues in that arc.

Very interesting. What else has he done?

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Very interesting. What else has he done?

He's the artist for Copperhead (a space western) and did a few recent issues of Superman. There's also a series called The Dark and Bloody that he did that tonally seems closest to what Batwoman should be.

I'm kinda torn on his work. I like it and think it works well for Copperhead since it can be stylized and kinda rough-looking, but I don't know how that'll translate here. But he can definitely do moody shadow stuff as well.

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Here's a Batman he did, which gives us the closest idea so far of what his work here might look like:

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Interesting. Looks a bit David Messina-like, but hopefully a bit more consistent.

I'm really curious about how artists are assigned to books, and what causes a book to get as many art shifts as Kate's is going through.

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I'm really curious about how artists are assigned to books, and what causes a book to get as many art shifts as Kate's is going through.

I think here it might just be due to scheduling, for the most part. And so far it's at least been on an arc-by-arc basis, so it's not that jarring.

And Blanco has kinda maybe hinted that he'll be back for a while:

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Found some more trading card stuff, this time hand-drawn sketch cards from Cryptozoic's Batman: The Legend line.

By Pablo Priano:

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By Neil Camera:

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And then there's this official card from the same line, that botches Kate's origin/motives (it's not hard to get right, people!)

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Art by Iban Coello and Rainer Petter.

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By Andrew Ponce:

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By Michael Dooney:

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By Patricia Wheatley:

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Well, Justice League XXX apparently released early, and a friend of mine is livetweeting it. It sounds like they got Kate's characterization pretty much correct, which is wild.