“Heartbroken” Batwoman Creators Leave Title Over Dispute With Editorial

Haden Blackman and J.H. Williams III, the co-writers on DC Comics’s Batwoman, will leave the book following December’s #26, Blackman announced via his blog.The decision comes as the pair have apparently struggled with a series of changes to their stories mandated by editorial, culminating in the marriage between the title character and her fiancee Maggie Sawyer being rejected by the publisher.”In recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series,” Blackman claims. “We were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc’s origins; forced to drastically alter the original ending of our current arc, which would have defined Batwoman’s heroic future in bold new ways; and, most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married. All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end.”