DarthShap

In France, the complete Tintin and Asterix are basicaly in every home.

And nice of you to talk about Les Humanoïdes Associés. Great and mature comics. It so happens that my own cousin is the N°2 guy to this small publishing company . ^^

@shadowpdf: 
Sasha Bordeaux but she's with Mr. Terrific now and pretty much like most characters from that list, she really had nothing in common with Batman.

@Durnn said:

"I think he should have someone not "in the business"... to keep him in perspective. Worked for Supes and Spidey. Given that, I'd go with Silver St Cloud... c'mon, she's got silver hair! "

@chalkshark:
I do not think we should read too much into this oath from the 40's. Batman fights crime because that is his duty. In current continuity, Bruce Wayne just went crazy that night, in that alley; he became obsessed by his mission. A general oath by a burning candle does not quite cover it. He is still grieving in his own deranged way, through crime fighting. So if Catwoman was to become the one, it would have nothing to do with the 1940's oath but to the Batman character and its perception of her. Actually Batman sees Catwoman for who she really is, meaning a good person with some cat and jewellery obsessions. A criminal, of course but in no way someone who would make an orphan of a ten-year-old boy…even for jewellery.    

Catwoman of course.  So similar and yet so different at the same time. Something Loeb and Dini understood better than anyone else.  

Indeed Talia was a possibility a few years back but no longer after what she did to Dick and Damian in Grant Morrison's Batman Vs. Robin.