![]() ![]() ![]() Kate has had decades to process her grief. Kate has taken the events that traumatized her – the deaths of her mother and twin sister – and spent much of her life training to join her father’s security company, the Crows. But scratch off the veneer, and you get two characters with very different motivations and pasts.Ĥ non-superhero comics by Greg Rucka (and 1 novel) Rucka, like any writer, has a type: tough women with troubled pasts, much like Warren Ellis likes to write snarky people with accents and trenchcoats, and Stephen King likes to write authors who are thrust into weird supernatural situations and who are often recovering from an addiction or, in recent years, a tragic accident, and sometimes both. On the surface, Dex Parios, the lead of “Stumptown,” and Kate Kane, Batwoman, are similar characters. And with a couple episodes under the belt of each show, it’s a good time to look at the two next to each other, both in terms of how they stand on their own and how they compare to each other. Rucka is one of my favorite writers, so it’s exciting to see Dex Parios and Kate Kane getting this level of exposure. These series are, respectively, his PI-in-Portland book, “Stumptown,” and the newest addition to the CW’s Arrowverse, “Batwoman.” Over the past three weeks, two television series have debuted featuring Rucka-created characters, one creator-owned and one work-for-hire. It’s been a good month for characters created by Greg Rucka. ![]() By MATTHEW LAZORWITZ, WMQ Comics senior contributor ![]()
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