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Batwoman returns to DC Comics in 2026 - and co-creator Greg Rucka is writing

Greg Rucka is writing Kate Kane for the first time in more than a decade for a new DC series launching in March 2026

Published on Sat Oct 11 2025

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For many DC Comics fans, it’s a family reunion they didn’t think would ever happen, but the publisher has announced that Kate Kane, AKA Batwoman is getting her own comic book once again launching March 2026 — and that the series will be written by the character’s creator, Greg Rucka.

Rucka created Batwoman — technically a reinvention of a 1950s character in name, at least, but in reality an all-new character with an entirely new backstory — for the 2006 miniseries 52, which he co-wrote with Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, and Grant Morrison; the character, initially controversial as one of the highest profile queer characters in superhero comics, would later go on to anchor not only her own comic book, but also a television series on the CW launching in 2019.

Rucka famously hasn’t written Batwoman since 2010’s aborted Detective Comics run illustrated by J.H. Williams III, cut short when the writer publicly cut ties with DC; the character’s 2011 solo series was initially co-written by Williams and W. Haden Blackman, with Williams illustrating. Since the 2015 conclusion of that series, Batwoman has played supporting roles in both Detective Comics and the short-lived Outsiders comic from 2023, and most recently appeared in 2024’s The Question: All Along the Watchtower miniseries.

The new series follows Rucka’s return to DCU (and DC as a whole) with this year’s Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League miniseries with longtime collaborator Nicola Scott; on Batwoman, he’ll be paired with Dani, the evocative artist who’s worked on everything from 2000 AD to Image Comics’ Coffin Bound and DC/Hill House Comics’ The Low, Low Woods. (The header image is from a private commission of the character by Dani available online; no art from the series has been released yet, although unfinished artwork was shown at the panel.)

Batwoman will be the launch title for DC Next Level, the new publishing initiative beginning in March 2026 spinning out of the current DC K.O. publishing event.

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