DC comic book character 'Batwoman' is poised to make a comeback as a "lipstick lesbian" who moonlights as a crime fighter, a DC Comics spokesman has confirmed.
Batwoman, aka 'Kathy Kane', currently appears in the comic book series "52", a year-long DC Comics publication that began this month, as a rich socialite who has a romance with ex-police detective 'Renee Montoya'.
"52" will be published in the UK in 2007 as a graphic novel by Titan Books, set in a world where established superheroes like 'Batman', 'Superman' and 'Wonder Woman' no longer play a part in people's daily lives.
The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically/sexually diverse characters in the new DC Comics universe, that now includes Mexican teenager 'Blue Beetle', the 'Great Ten' team of Chinese superheroes, the new black 'Firestorm' and the Asian 'Atom'.
Batwoman, first appeared July 1956 in Batman's "Detective Comics" .
