I wasn’t a big fan of Luke in his solo series (bring back David Zavimbe!) or his story in Eternal, but he’s been likable in this series and the character has potential. As Barbara works to help ensure everything goes off smoothly for Alysia’s big day, she’s also on a wedding date with Luke Fox. The diversity is present, but it exists organically in a story that is really more about Barbara’s double life causing complications for the most important day of her best friend’s life. You can’t talk about the issue without mentioning the importance of the fact that it features a transgender character marrying their same-sex partner, but I think it’s almost as important that in many ways, this is incidental to the story. Ray: This issue has gotten a decent amount of hype, given that it features Barbara’s former roommate Alysia’s wedding to her partner Jo. That’s why Ray Goldfield and myself are we pulling out this review from our main DC issue recaps and giving it a spotlight today.īatgirl #45 is on sale now at comic shops and īatgirl #45 – Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher, writers, Babs Tarr, artist. Meanwhile, over in DC Bombshells, Maggie and Kate are still very much an item, even being given a tasteful and beautiful love scene, and DC is publishing Midnighter, a comic featuring a gay male lead. Now, two years later, another Bat-comic, Batgirl #45, is hosting a LGBT wedding featuring Barbara Gordon’s former roommate, Alysia Yeoh, a trans character, and her partner, Jo. Batwoman the comic never recovered from Williams departure and has since been canceled. “We were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc’s origins forced to drastically alter the original ending of our current arc, which would have defined Batwoman’s heroic future in bold new ways and, most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married,” Williams wrote.ĭC backtracked, claiming that none of their characters would be allowed to be married, a ridiculous stance that had them claiming the married couple Aquaman and Mera weren’t actually married.

Williams III quit the comic, citing that DC would never allow Kate Kane and Maggie Sawyer to be married as one of the major reasons for his departure.

Batgirl #45 by Cameron Stewart