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I love the picture, but no Huntress, or even Starfire or Hawkgirl? WTF?

I love the Batwoman doing a madonna spread leg female empowerment pose. I agree Annie Liebowitz would be proud. I'm just pissed that Donna Troy wasn't included. Or any of the Titans. Seriously.

Great points, Blake -- I would steer you to John Rogers writing on the fantastic, best-comic-you're-not-reading "Blue Beetle" as a ray of hope on that front. An honest, fully realized character, true to his roots, with a family that reflects the hispanic experience in America without being in any way stereotypical. Sadly, Mr. Rogers run has come to an end on BB, but he gave the character of Jaime Reyes a great start.
John

Honestly, I think Batwoman in pants is truer to the character. She's no less beautiful or sensual than the others. It's her style. If all those characters were given the chance to select from "wardrobe" the pieces that reflect their personal style, I can totally see her making that choice. Beautiful art, overall -- subtle hat tips to each char's signature emblems or what-have-you. Super sexy without resorting to football sized knockers (Phantom Lady, I'm lookin' at you) or ridiculous eating disorder waif-frames (Hello, Supergirl? Honey, please, eat a sandwhich) or creepy underage Lolita chic (Traci 13! You are NOT going out of the house like that!)
Love you, love your blog, love Adam Hughes ... of course, some of that love is just the coffee hitting me as I type this.
Now if Adam would only do one for the men. Equally sensual. What a talent he is.
Cheers!
John

It's great that the artist included the new Batwoman but what about her lover, the new Question?

Also, the artist continues the tradition of making Vixen into a Halle Berry-clone. Halle's beautiful but not all African-American women look like her. In this case, Vixen looks like a white woman with brown skin.

Unfortunately, there's a problem in comics where women of color, Asian, African, African-American, etc. are white-washed. Storm is an African woman but often her African features disappear are replaced with thin lips and thin nose. It would be one thing if she were Ethiopian but Storm is the daughter of an African-American man and a black Kenyan mother. While it's likely that Storm's father has some European ancestry, since most African-Americans do, that isn't likely for her mom.

Similarly, characters like Jubilee from the X-Men universe, Monet from X-Factor, or Linda Park West from the Flash are often drawn as white brunettes instead of as Asian or a brown-skinned Algerian, as Monet was first drawn.

Just as it's important to have gay characters in comics, it's just as important to have people of color (who look like people of color) in comics.

The new Atom, Ryan Choi, is disappointing in how he has been white-washed culturally. There are no traces of Ryan's Hong Kong Chinese ethnicity in his character. There are no references to language, culture, food, etc. to show that the man is Hong Kong Chinese. That's really disappointing. Part of the character should be his experience as an immigrant to the U.S. Why no mention of being homesick for certain foods? Why no mention of Hong Kong movie stars?

I'm not talking about the irritating habit of naming a character with his/her race plus a name: Black Lightning, Apache Giant, etc. But, imbuing a character with elements of his/her ethnicity is what makes a character unique. Or, for that matter, making a character's powers exclusively based in his/her ethnicity: Asian character being a martial arts expert, of course!

On the flip side, making a white character the king of the jungle or the ultimate Asian martial artist speaks volumes about white supremacist thinking--because you know, white people would obviously be able to be the best of every thing everywhere. ;-)

(P.S. I never understood Superman saying "Great Rao!" since he didn't grow up on Krypton learning the Kryptonese religion. It seemed fake. Wonder Woman, on the other hand, discussing the Greek pantheon makes sense since they represent her gods and the source of her abilities.)

Great new DC poster! I hadn't seen that yet!

batwoman may be the 'out' lesbian in pants, but poison ivy and harley quinn (snuggling in dresses behind her) are the lindsay lohan and sam ronson of the dcu