She learns to work without others across a series of guest appearances without sacrificing her own mission for Bruce's. Kate's approach to crime fighting, hell her entire world view is shown to be distinct from Bruce's from the onset. Hell Rucka and Williams use an extended flashback sequence to spell that out.

From her debut through to the end of Rucka's time on the book any interaction with Bruce's mob served to underscore Kate's independence from a wider Bat-Family. The character's already going to encounter issues from a regressive fandom that has issues with any character created after their childhood so taking a…

A formerly independent character with her own network of supporting characters has been rendered just another Bat-Family member with a Pennyworth to boot. Between Tec and Batwoman any semblance of Kate as an independent character has been systematically destroying so she can play subaltern to Bruce.

It really doesn't square up with the portrayal of Jacob's life prior to his remarriage. A lot of Rebirth feels like it's centred around reintroducing legacy characters in a way that doesn't threaten editorial favourites so forcing Kate into a subordinate role next to Bruce was sadly unsurprising.

Tying Kate directly into the Bat-Family really weakened the character, especially when it went hand in hand with that god-awful Jacob Kane isn't what he seems plot-line.

Berger and Dark House is a dream come true.

The Star Trek one was enjoyable enough, I mean it's really just going through the motions but that in itself ends up being fairly fun. It's not quite as good as their LOSH/TOS crossover but they fact they try to fit the entire thing into a three day gap in the Ape movie timeline is pretty funny.

I'd buy a Nardole centric spin-off over those weird Churchill ones they put out.

Occasionally Nick Brigg's pops in playing the Ninth Doctor for some fucking reason.

Watch Big Finish resolve it with nine seasons of "Down on the farm with Nardole."

"Luke Cage as a Cyberman who becomes the guardian of every multiverse in fiction" Kroton's the man!

Dynamite went through a phase of having "soundtracks" for some of their books for a while, Walker's Shaft had one and that Django/Zorro book Wagner did came with one. Shaft's was pretty good and the songs tended to follow the beats of the individual issues but Django/Zorro was a bit try-hard to be honest.

nah, Low-budget filmation style animation.

Six-Pack and Section Eight, time to show the world what real heroes look like.

There's a solid idea there but the execution kinda slips around doing anything truly interesting with the notion, it's not saying much you don't get with a more bog standard evil/morally ambiguous Superman stories.

Wasn't the Fifth World stuff more along the lines that Batman, Superman et. all were thematic successors to the New Gods rather than outright reincarnations. He fights a war on a concept, so he's "The God of War."

Issue Five of Ellis's Moon Knight revamp.

Exactly, his work on Hitman #34 and the JLA Crossover display a rare understanding of the character you don't see from many writers and it makes the Superman in ASS8 all the more sinister.

All-Star Section Eight - DCYOUs reputation as trying to push the company in a better direction is a hell of an over-exaggeration but credit where credit's due letting Ennis do a six issue run that paints a pitch black reading of both DC and cape comics as a whole is the sort of ballsy stuff that they should be trying…

Batman vs Grendel, Matt Wagner knows how to draw a punch up that actually has weight to it.