COMICS: J.H Williams III Announces Departure From BATWOMAN Over Editorial Decisions

What. The. [frick].

So they would allow her to ask Maggie to marry her, would allow them to arrange the marriage but..not show them getting married? And then they tell them that long arc you been working on, scrap it and ignore it because we don't like it now that its ending.

Huh. That's a lot of what.

So DC is okay with turning Alan Scott homosexual but not allowing two homosexuals to get married?

da fuq?

Jeez
WTF is up with DC's editorial department?

Not surprised tbh, both are just as bad when it comes to character progression.

Damn that's sad. What a shame.

NOOOOOOO!!!!! [frick] THIS!

The art was gorgeous, but the story was really dragging and going nowhere. The series needs a Green Arrow level kick in the ass.
And DC's not homophobic. Batwoman is one of the most publicly gay superheroes in comics. Having a Bat character be openly gay was a huge risk for DC and it paid off. She had a relationship with Renee Montoya aka The Question previous to her current relationship. To say they haven't had good LGBT characters is a bullshit accusation.
If they don't want Batwoman to get married, then fine. If Superman and Batman can't be married why should Batwoman be married? Superhero marriages rarely work, anyway.You run out of road with that kind relationship. Maggie would end up getting killed or they'd just separate somewhere down the road because Kate refuses to give up the vigilante lifestyle. You can see where that road is leading.

All the best to Williams, though.

Psht, look at SnapperCarr as he tries to pick on something that's actually good. You know what they say, don't insult something if you haven't tried it yourself.

Ah tad disappointed that they won't allow Kate and Maggie to be married, I mean, why can't one Bat character have something good in their life? But I was more upset that they were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc’s origins, if there was one character in the New 52 I wanted to see the origin of, it was Killer Croc.
I can't tell if the Editors at DC are discriminative or just late to everything. The second part seems far more realistic with everything that goes down at DC anyway. As 2gold pointed out, So they would allow her to ask Maggie to marry her, would allow them to arrange the marriage but..not show them getting married? And then they tell them that long arc you been working on, scrap it and ignore it because we don't like it now that its ending. , I can just feel the editors loading out things when they're a month and a bit behind in their comic reading. I mean, it's not as if it's their job at all… lucky bastards.

what the fck dc comics, what the actual fck
they're not only not allowing them to show the marriage, one of jh's twitter replies reads: "Not wanting to be inflammatory, only factual- We fought to get them engaged, but were told emphatically no marriage can result"
which is bullshit, i'm so disappointed

also @PenditaMarah you're an homophobe i hope you feel proud of being such a dick :D

There was actually lesbian sex in Batwoman, but I agree that she shouldn't be getting married, especially to a woman that wants her to hang up the cape.

These marriages always end up in break ups or death.

Bad move DC editorial!! You've alienated one the best creators in the business. Not to mention what happened with Greg Rucka on the same title. Batwoman WAS one of the classiest acts in comics.

I can see the marriage thing only in the sense that as stated earlier that these rarely work in the vigilante world; yet still they could have pulled it together someway. Plus this book needs to find a way to shorten some of their story lines or stream line them or they will lose readership.

And so it ends. Last remaining DC title on my pull list. More money for something else now. Don't really care whether there was a marriage or not, but rather that it was not the creative team's decision.

@grif

LOL!

I'm hoping that it wasn't because of the fact that they're lesbians. JH Williams said himself that DC isn't anti-gay.

It really sucks to see him go, but hopefully he'll move onto something with the freedom he deserves!


@PenditaMarah

It's cool of him to ask people not to drop the book over this but, honestly, JHW III has always been the only reason to read Batwoman. I hope he takes his talents to Marvel.

@ Battabing If marraiges don't work in comic it is because of bad or lazy writing along with bad editing. Every writer seems to think that in order to have character development with a married superhero the spouse has to die or at least leave the hero. And that is just lazy thinking.

If you want an example of a marriage that works in comics just look and Reed and Sue Richards. Yes I know both of them are heroes but the marriage is one if not the best one in comics. But Marvel could have had them divorce years ago for conflict(though they have seperated a couple of times) and still work together. But Marvel has decided to make it work and stick. I think DC could do the same and should.

Or all you have to do is look at real life at any person who is a Law Officer and there plenty of them who have great solid marriages. Yes law enforcers do have a higher percentage of divorces but that doesn't take away for them the ones that work. And if it works in real life then editors and writers can make it work in the comic world.

It would be nice if they let them do their ending in a one-shot, OGN or mini set on another Earth. I hate it when classic, finite runs are denied something as essential to storytelling as an organic resolution.

Promoting Gay shit in comics is not the look comic books need...