A review by nicnacnoo
Batwoman, Volume 6: The Unknowns by Georges Jeanty, Jason Masters, Dexter Vines, Yishan Li, Jack Purcell, Karl Story, Roger Bonet, Scott Hanna, Roberto Viacava, Marc Andreyko, Juan José Ryp, Jeremy Haun, Trevor McCarthy, Ronan Cliquet
1.0
Before I say anything , Batwoman is my favourite superhero and before I read this I knew how bad it was supposed to be and that this was a major reason Batwoman was cancelled , I still bought the trade knowing this and went in with a really open mind and a need to love it and I saw some positive reviews on here ( maybe got my hopes up a bit)
I don't really do reviews but I needed this out of my system.
Semi spoilers below but at this point who cares.
Well....
The artwork was ok?
Like 80 percent fine with 20 percent added googly eyes.
The writing of this arc was just one massive clusterfuck , maybe they were trying to go into a completely different direction to gain new readers or try to stop this series from getting cancelled I don't know.
I do know that it didn't feel like a Batwoman story .
Bette wasn't in this which was a shame , neither was her father which seemed very odd as he is usually such a big part of Kate's missions and support team but then I guess she didn't really do anything to warrant it.
What I just read wasn't Kate Kane it was a empty shell in a batsuit that was a pseudo vampire ?
Vampire?
Vampire???????
I genuinely don't know .
The adding of the team of Etrigan , Clayface , Red Alice and Ragman literally came out of nowhere , made no sense and had no point , it flitted between times and the last issue was medieval time travel thing (I could have dreamt that or spaced out , who knows anymore) .
Red Alice was surprisingly ok , like she was probably the most agreeable thing with these issues for me , but I was trying to find some positive.
However all of that went down the drain with a unnecessary rape scene half way through which was later glossed over later on in another issue and tried to cover itself up after backlash by saying (no it totally wasn't rape because your brain actually wanted me ,soooooo totally not rape )
Major eyeroll
The only saving grace to this trade was the first unconnected issue of secret origins which was thankfully written and drawn by people who seemed to actually know what Batwoman was about.
Like seriously thank you Jeremy Haun . Write Kate whenever you want .
I feel like I'm being really mean but it's sad.
It's just we have had a really good Batwoman run overall up until volume 5 when J.H Williams had completely left the series so it's kind of dissapointing that the last we get is this and I'm sure Marc Andreyko had a plan for more issues and maybe this plot was going somewhere but for me it just really didn't work .
If you want to complete the run then read it , if not just stick with volumes 1 through 4 and save yourself the dissapointment.
I don't really do reviews but I needed this out of my system.
Semi spoilers below but at this point who cares.
Well....
The artwork was ok?
Like 80 percent fine with 20 percent added googly eyes.
The writing of this arc was just one massive clusterfuck , maybe they were trying to go into a completely different direction to gain new readers or try to stop this series from getting cancelled I don't know.
I do know that it didn't feel like a Batwoman story .
Bette wasn't in this which was a shame , neither was her father which seemed very odd as he is usually such a big part of Kate's missions and support team but then I guess she didn't really do anything to warrant it.
What I just read wasn't Kate Kane it was a empty shell in a batsuit that was a pseudo vampire ?
Vampire?
Vampire???????
I genuinely don't know .
The adding of the team of Etrigan , Clayface , Red Alice and Ragman literally came out of nowhere , made no sense and had no point , it flitted between times and the last issue was medieval time travel thing (I could have dreamt that or spaced out , who knows anymore) .
Red Alice was surprisingly ok , like she was probably the most agreeable thing with these issues for me , but I was trying to find some positive.
However all of that went down the drain with a unnecessary rape scene half way through which was later glossed over later on in another issue and tried to cover itself up after backlash by saying (no it totally wasn't rape because your brain actually wanted me ,soooooo totally not rape )
Major eyeroll
The only saving grace to this trade was the first unconnected issue of secret origins which was thankfully written and drawn by people who seemed to actually know what Batwoman was about.
Like seriously thank you Jeremy Haun . Write Kate whenever you want .
I feel like I'm being really mean but it's sad.
It's just we have had a really good Batwoman run overall up until volume 5 when J.H Williams had completely left the series so it's kind of dissapointing that the last we get is this and I'm sure Marc Andreyko had a plan for more issues and maybe this plot was going somewhere but for me it just really didn't work .
If you want to complete the run then read it , if not just stick with volumes 1 through 4 and save yourself the dissapointment.