This Wednesday, after one of the most public and bitter creative vs. editorial breakups in comic book history, DC will release Batwoman #25 out into the wild. The GLAAD Award-winning duo of J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman — both of whom announced their intention to leave the book after DC refused (among other things) not to let Kate Kane and Maggie Sawyer get gay married — are now officially off the book (before they were able to wrap up the highly anticipated Batman vs. Batman story arc), and openly gay writer Marc Andreyko has taken the reins of the series. In his interview with “USA Today,” Andreyko acknowledges that he’s got big shoes to fill, that he doesn’t have any plans to make huge changes to the character, and that he knows how much she means to the LGBT community.

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It’s a dark month for gay lady comic book fans. Almost as soon as “Fearless Defenders” delighted us by adding a brand new lesbian character to the title, Marvel announced that they are canceling the book. And after a very public battle with DC editorial, “Batwoman“‘s creative team has now published its final issue. What did you think of “Batwoman #24”? Are you looking forward to the new creative team, or are you feeling as skeptical/bummed as I am?

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The authors of “Batwoman” are exiting due to creative differences with DC Comics. Their decision came, in part, after an alleged ban on a same-sex marriage storyline. Co-authors J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman announced they plan to leave “Batwoman” after issue #26 is released in December, The Hollywood Reporter first noted. The announcement was made in a blog post Wednesday.

“In recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series,” they wrote. “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. All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end.”

UPDATE: DC Comics responded to The Huffington Post’s request for comment in an email Thursday afternoon saying, “As acknowledged by the creators involved, the editorial differences with the writers of BATWOMAN had nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the character.”

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That’s one hot kiss. Literally.

BY HEATHER HOGAN
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Warning: Lots of spoilers for “Batwoman #23”!

When Kate Kane proposed to Maggie Sawyer all the way back in “Batwoman #17,” all the people who love all the awesome things were ecstatic. It was the first lesbian wedding proposal in the history of mainstream comics, and since Batwoman had been right about foreshadowing the overturn of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” we were buoyed by the thought that she would also be right about foreshadowing the overturn of DOMA and Prop. 8. (She was.) But one thing was missing: Maggie’s answer. Sure, we saw in later issues that Maggie and Kate had moved in together, that they were engaged, that Maggie was trying to reconcile Kate with Batwoman, but we didn’t get that definitive yes, that romantic punch to the gut we were looking for — until this month.

There’s even lesbian spooning.

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