Today at the DC and Marvel Heroes Forum, I post a topic I feel will encourage lots of readers to voice their concerns regarding a recent controversial editorial decision made at DC Comics, publisher of the Batman comics. I am sure some of you heard the news that DC won't allow the currently running Batman comic book series Batwoman to feature a story where Kate Kane (the current Batwoman) marries her fiance, provoking the series' writers' decision to resign from writing in protest. Well, last night, I found out from the entertainment news show Innerspace that the entire reason DC editors refuse to let Kate Kane to have her wedding within the canon DC Universe continuity is to enforce o the continuity itself the storytelling standard that supeheroes are not meant to be happy, not even during an endless war against darkness. Moreover, current co-publisher at DC Comics Dan DiDio said this to defend the decision to prevent DC Universe super-ehreos from getting married, according to The Mary Sue:
"Heroes shouldn’t have happy personal lives. They are committed to being that person and committed to defending others at the sacrifice of their own personal interests.
That’s very important and something we reinforced. People in the Bat family their personal lives basically suck. Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Barbara Gordon and Kathy Kane. It’s wonderful that they try to establish personal lives, but it’s equally important that they set them aside. That is our mandate, that is our edict and that is our stand."
I guess the question I want to ask you readers is if you feel that DC's in the wrong to prevent DC Universe heroes who are in love with their respective lovers from getting married and/or having any sense of hapines in their lives, or do you think editiors have their good points? As for me, this adds to the two-year disappointment I find myself suffering from because of the new 52 iniative's elimination of Clark Kent's mariage with Lois Lane from the main DC Universe's timeline, and it's already sad that poor Dick Grayson never got to marry either Starfire or Barbara Gordon, even though he truly loved them. Looks like DC's really stooped to the level Marvel Comics' chief creator oficer Joe Quesada was at about six years ago when he dictated that Peter Parker's marriage with Mary-Jane Watson in the main Marvelverse's timeline be erased permanently.
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Today, DC Comics announces that Kate Kane, the current Batwoman of main DC Universe, will be teaming up with Diana Prince/Wonder Woman to battle a dangerous threat in Batwoman No. 13, set for release on Oct. 17.
In describing the goal of doing the story, the writers J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman hope to bring out complimentary aspects of both heroines in the same way done for Superman and Batman.
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So far, DC Comics' website has revealed that the opening story arcs of a few "DC Comics New 52" series titles will be collected in trade paperbacks to hit bookstore shelves. Here are the trade paperbacks listed below so far:
- "Batman: The Court of Owls" (coming 3/9/2012): collecting "Batman" (Vol. 2) No. 1-6. Story: Bruce Wayne/Batman encounters an army of villains known as the Court of Owls, who have been at war with his family even since Gotham City's earliest years.
- "Animal Man: The Hunt": Collecting "Animal Man" (Vol. 2) No. 1-6. Story: Buddy Baker becomes a family man, only to discover that his daughter Maxine is devolping poers that maybe a danger to the whole family.
- "Justice League: Origin" (coming 5/2/2012): collecting "Justice League" (Vol. 2) No. 1-6. Story: a revised version of the Justice League's origins for the DC New 52 Universe.
- "Justice League International: The Signal Masters": Collecting "Justice League International" (Vol. 3) No. 1-6. Story: a revised version of JLI's origin for the DC New 52 Universe.
- Catwoman: The Game": Collects "Catwoman" (Vol. 4) No. 1-6. Story: Catwoman loses her magic touch as thief when robbing from the wrong victim, who manages to trap her.
- "Green Lantern: Sinestro" (coming 5/16/2011): collecting "Green Lantern" (Vol. 5) No. 1-6. Story: Sinestro, now a Green Lantern, tries to free his homeworld Korugar from terror by his ex-army of villains Sinestro Corps, only to need help from his former adversary Hal Jordan.
- "Stormwatch: The Dark Side" (coming 5/23/2012): Collecting "Stormwatch" (Vol. 3) No. 1-6. Story: a police force of anti-heroes, whoses existence is unknown from the rest of te world's population, try to cover up the metmorphosis of the Earth's moon in an attempt to preotect the planet from the moon itself.
- "Green Arrow: The Midas Touch" (coming 5/30/2012): Collecting "Green Arrow" (Vol. 5) No. 1-6. Story: Oliver Queen, becoming Green Arrow, travels around the globe to bring outlaws to justice, even it the job involves bending the rules to finish it.
- "Wonder Woman: Blood" (coming 5/30/2012): collecting "Wonder Woman" (Vol. 4) No. 1-6. Story: Diana Prince/Wonder Woman learns a disturbing secret of her mother Hippolyta, which involves who Diana's father is.
- "Batman: Detective Comics: Faces of Evil" (coming 6/6/2012): Collecting "Detective Comics" (Vol. 2) No. 1-7. Story: During his first year of his crime-fighting career, Batman joins up with Commissioner Gordon to track down the Gotham Ripper, who's stealing people's faces for his dollmaking making.
- "Batwoman: Hydrology": Collecting "Batwoman" (Vol. 1) No. 1-5. Story: Kate Kane, while investigating child kidnappings in the barrio, faces unsettling revelations of her father Colonel Jacob Kane.
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