Marc Andreyko, creator of the Kate Spencer Manhunter and one of comics’s most respected gay creators, will take over as writer on Batwoman starting with issue #25 of the series, DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio announced today at Baltimore Comic-Con.”[Andreyko is] so excited about taking on this series–so much so that we’re putting him on the book starting with issue #25,” DiDio told an audience at DC’s panel at the show. “Batwoman’s going to become an integral part of Batman’s universe, just the way we always wanted. She’ll be starting with a Year Zero story arc and from there she’ll be an important part as she always is.”That’s a bit of a change from the way Batwoman has been handled for most of the New 52–the title has been as stand-alone a book as DC has outside of titles like All-Star Western and Legion of Super-Heroes, both of which take place in a different time than the rest of the DCU. Many fans had speculated that the title would head in a more Batman Family-centric direction when it continued after losing its original creative team, since the way it had been done up to now has stuck out so much in the New 52. The image at right and above is actually a screen grab from my personal Facebook page in which we were discussing that possibility on Thursday morning.
