Marvel is too in love with riding whatever the current pop culture craze happens to be. With the ASM movies just starting a new trilogy, no way would they give up Peter Parker as Spider-Man. I'd put my bets on them finding some way to bring Gwen back to life.
" People agreeing with Cooke on Batwoman's presto-chango should bother to look up the fact that Kate Kane (the current Batwoman) is an original character who has always been gay. Cooke's comment makes about as much sense as complaining that Batgirl suddenly became asian. "
read up on your bat history, she first appeared in 1956...arguing the current character is new is the same as saying Batman first appeared in 2006 since technically everyone who appeared pre-Infinite Crisis was retconned out of existence in the DCU and origins were redone "
Kate Kane didn't just have some aspect of herself (like her sexuality) retconned. She was scrapped and rebuilt from the ground up. That's a new character. Cooke is talking about it from a metaperspective, as if the existence of a Batwoman decades ago means that she should always be that way. Which is why I compare it to Batgirl: who she *used* to be doesn't matter.
It's utterly bizarre that people are defending his comments as railing against political correctness. He's arguing for censorship, and censorship is all ABOUT being PC.
Judging by these comments you'd think no one could open a superhero comic without being subjected to rape and torture on every page. My current pull-list is a lot of DC stuff (Batman titles, Green lantern titles, Superman, Wonder Woman) and I'm hard-pressed to even think of any violence in them outside of a PG-13 area, and the sexuality is almost non-existent, unless you want to count skimpy outfits. But calling any use of such themes a publicity stunt is just short-sighted. You really want to argue that no powerful films have been made involving murder or rape? There will always been exploitative fluff, selling itself on the thrill of sex or violence with nothing to say, but you cannot blindly write off using such plot devices because you find them distasteful.
Sorry, Mr. Cooke, I don't want to live in a world where the only media I can access conforms to your individual morality.
People agreeing with Cooke on Batwoman's presto-chango should bother to look up the fact that Kate Kane (the current Batwoman) is an original character who has always been gay. Cooke's comment makes about as much sense as complaining that Batgirl suddenly became asian.
Wait...in RoBW #2, Superman jumps to the conclusion, for no discernible reason, that Darkseid boobytrapped Batman to somehow destroy the universe, and now Wonder Woman comes to the same exact conclusion whilst operating on even LESS information than Superman?
@WW-Fan: It would depend greatly on your tolerance for Grant Morrison. Some people love him, others hate him. I'm not a big fan, myself. I find his work mostly pretentious, always convoluted and rarely coherent. That's just my opinion, and it's entirely possible you would love his stuff if you gave it a chance. May as well start with Batman #700. We're in a big transitional perioid now, so nothing is really going to be optimal to jump in to. If you want the current main pulse of the Batverse, you can find it in The Return of Bruce Wayne and the Batman & Robin series, both also written by Morrison. At the very least, you should read up on just how Bruce Wayne was "killed" in the events of Final Crisis, and what he went through in R.I.P. to understand anything that's going on right now.
If you like the Batman Animated Series, Paul Dini, one of the head writers for that series, has done some excellent work on Batman in recent years. He writes the current Streets of Gotham and Gotham City Sirens books, and he has four trade paperbacks out from his Detective Comics run (in order of release, the first two of which are out of print: Batman: Detective, Death in the CIty, Private Casebook and Heart of Hush).
Also, if you're looking for a good online comic shop, I've been using HeavyInk for the past four months with nothing but positive results. They have an excellent subscription service, discounted prices and low shipping costs.
@WW-Fan: You can read it without depending on the previous Morrison work, as long as you understand that Dick Greyson is the current Batman and, in this anyway, Damian will be the Future one. That said, the story itself doesn't line up (a locked room mystery with no real explanation as to WHY any of it happened), but that's not a problem requiring any backstory knowledge.
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