Batwoman #3

Something else about last issue was bugging me and as I was scanning this cover, it came to me. Batman warns Batwoman about being careful bringing Flamebird in to help fight La Llorona. He says, "Murdered sidekicks have a way of coming back from the dead. As super villains." Why would the Batman of the New DC Universe offer this advice? Must we believe that not only has Batman gone through the three Robins we've seen so far (Dick, Tim, and Damien) but that the whole Jason Todd murdered by the Joker and coming back as the Red Hood has happened as well? I have yet to read Red Hood and the Outlaws, so I can't be sure if there is a connection in this universe or if Jason Todd has been allowed to rest in peace for this reboot.

I'm beginning to suspect that the writers of Batwoman were never told about the reboot and they're just continuing to write Batwoman in the old DCU. Could this be the only comic still taking place in the old DCU? Is the old DCU just one of the 52 Earths left in the DC Universe? Maybe the old DCU is Earth 42. So Batwoman takes place on Earth 42 while all of the other 52 titles take place on Earth 1. That's my guess.

Batwoman is almost drowned by the Weeping Woman. She's lured beneath the water with images of her sister who she believes drowned in the harbor. It's hard to tell if these images are just hallucinations by La Llorona to tempt her into drowning or if La Llorona actually has some connection to Batwoman's sister Beth. My guess is La Llorona has no connection.

After Batwoman escapes being killed, Cameron Chase and her DEO agents show up on scene.


The genius detective work of the DEO.

The near drowning and the near arrest by Cameron Chase and the warning about dead sidekicks from Batman cause Batwoman to rethink training her cousin Bette. So she heads straight home from almost drowning and fires Flamebird.



In theory, this is to keep Bette Kane safe from La Llorona. In reality, it just gives Bette Kane a reason to resurrect Flamebird and to get out of the stupid overalls she's been training in as Batwoman's sidekick. So the reader gets another changing scene! Except this time they're at separate locations and one is undressing while the other is dressing. It's all very meaningful with the meaning and the nakedness.



So Flamebird goes out on her own to look for La Llorona. And this is the final page of the story:



Is that middle image Batwoman as a small girl being visited by La Llorona? Is it her mother? Or is this where Batwoman received her ashy gray drowned person skin? And what is Flamebird going to find?

Well, Flamebird is probably going to find Cameron Chase and end up getting the 3rd degree and spilling the beans and other cliches that mean she's going to give up Batwoman's secret identity to the DEO. Probably serves somebody right.