Batwoman!

A list of why Batwoman is awesome? Let's.

1. J.H. Williams III is an Artist God made flesh

He rocks something that most people take for granted: panel structure. By incorporating panel structure into the art itself, he makes works of splendor that are unique to comics. I don't know who J.H. Williams one through two were, but we can only pray for a J.H. Williams the fourth.

2. No bat purse

The old Batwoman, Kathy Kane, had a bat-purse. Those weren't very enlightened days. Even now most women characters are pretty shallow, or at least presented as such. (See: the cover for Catwoman #1 where Catwoman jizzes diamonds on her tits)

Batwoman, on the other hand, rocks. She has an interesting back story, a cover identity, tattoos, and a cool costume. I want her to be my friend.

3. She's different!

Instead of looking and being like every other woman super hero, she is in fact a pale ginger lesbian. She actually represents the kind of variance that exists among real people in the real world. She's plausible.

4. Has a mythos

Batwoman has quickly grown her own mythos, instead of just poaching characters and concepts off of Batman. She seems to normally fight weird cult animal creatures and creepy water ghost ladies. Her world is like a Goth superhero world.