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@OttoBott

It doesn't take a sleuth to figure it out.

It took four years for Batowoman to get a solo story told. There have been many accounts – easily found online – that there was great trepidation about the controversy a gay Bat character would cause.

The character finally gets a story, is critically acclaimed, award-winning snd embraced by fandom.

Rucka announces a solo book is happening back in December. Three months later, the book – and Rucka – are gone. 

But wait. DC published Batwoman stories in Detective. That proves they're diverse!

What's changed since those stories began publishing? DC Comics became DC Entertainment, with a much more critical corporate eye on such inconveniences as characters having "teh gay."

I admire Rucka for having the character and dignity to walk away from this situation. I despise DC.

Meanwhile, hit books with straight white guys like "Jonah Hex" continue to burn up the sales charts. 

Bravo. 

@Josh

No. It just makes them cowards.

Which in some ways is worse. 

@comicBOOKchris

You forget the most likely option.

She's put on a shelf, forgotten (i.e., prevented from being used by DC editors because she has "teh gay"), randomly appears in the background of a fight scene in some Bat book event to in a pandering attempt to show she's viable and eventually killed off in "Final Crisis of the Pink Lanterns" crossover.

My money goes there.

The is DC we're talking about. 

Unoob:

 Turn on the news and look at your average Tea Party protest. That type of thinking and much, much worse thrives today.

And in the halls of DC Entertainment. 

Meanwhile, the "mere" 45,000 copies Detective sold in January – when Jock took over art – is more than four times what REBELS sells.

Sales have nothing to do with this.

Batwoman has been notoriously delayed over and over again and it's been well documented the trepidation DC felt at a gay character headlining a book.

Now that Dc Comics is DC Entertainment, it's no surpriser that the corporate fear has increased.

 If it were just sales, they'd say, "It didn't sell well enough."

They don't say anything. Everything is vague. Because they're sacred sh!tless to say why.

 F you DC. 

Josh, if you're truly concerned about morality, drop the straw man act and ask Rucka or DC directly why the only lead comic character who is gay has such a hard time getting approved for a monthly book despite acclaim, sales and awards.

The fact no one will discuss what really happened proves something stinks.  

Done with DC. Cannot take their corporate BS anymore. The best comic they've released in years and they cower due to fear of a title with a gay lead.

Meanwhile, garbage like Azrael and REBELS that no one buys continues and Judd Winick gets more work.

Anything that looks good from DC in the future I'll just "find" online. But they've received their last penny from me.

Shame, too. Was looking forward to BOP. But that's why bittorrent exists, now doesn't it?