Batwoman is a sister!

While trolling for my daily tidbits of inspiration yesterday, I learned that Katie Couric squeezed out her first farewell tear at 7:24 a.m. (Gawker breathlessly blogged about other media breathlessly blogging about it). And I learned from Deadspin that you do NOT want to mess with Jacque Jones' mama, no matter how bad a baseball player her son may seem. But the Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper spewing moment came when I stumbled across the following Gawker entry, buried in the middle of a list of near toss-offs:

• DC Comics’ Batwoman returns as a lesbian. Rival Marvel vows to introduce their new superhero, Rugmuncher, who plays acoustic guitar at an independently-owned coffee shop.

The picture is attached. Wow. (And for reference, there's an old-school Batwoman image as well. With her "utility purse" and all.)

Want details? Well, here are some from BBC:

Comic book heroine Batwoman is to make a comeback as a "lipstick lesbian" who moonlights as a crime fighter, a DC Comics spokesman has confirmed.
Batwoman - real name Kathy Kane - will appear in 52, a year-long DC Comics publication that began this month. In her latest incarnation, she is a rich socialite who has a romantic history with another 52 character, ex-police detective Renee Montoya.
52 will be published in the UK as a graphic novel by Titan Books in 2007. The series is set in a world in which established superheroes Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman do not play a part. Reinvention The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically and sexually diverse characters entering the DC Comics universe.
Others include Mexican teenager Blue Beetle - who replaces the character's previous white incarnation - and the Great Ten, a government-sponsored team of Chinese superheroes.
Regular characters Firestorm and The Atom, meanwhile, have been reinvented as black and Asian heroes respectively. The characters are part of a wider effort to broaden the make-up of comic-book creations in line with society as a whole.
Batwoman, who first appeared in July 1956, has not been seen since September 1979 when she was killed by the League of Assassins and the Bronze Tiger.