The Book of Hsssh

Batwing, David Zavimbe, was basically African Batman that Morrison created during Batman Inc. Not much was done with him there, but as is usual with Morrison's work there were enough bits and pieces that could be explored and built upon to something interesting. So New 52 happens in the middle of the Batman Inc. run and DC felt like it was a good opportunity to try him out as a solo hero. Did it work? First red flag for me was that Winnick got to write this ongoing. I know that he has his fans and some of his stuff like Red Hood turned out to be big commercial hits, but his work really never clicked for me. On the positive he got Ben Oliver on the art who I tend to enjoy. So yeah, I wasn't very thrilled with the creative team, but I was interested enough to try it. Unfortunately, while he still has the same name and is based in Africa it does feel like this is entirely different character. Maybe editors wanted this, maybe Winnick wanted it. Who knows, who cares. At the end of t...

This mini was main motivation for me to start these Multiversity posts, yet I'm getting to it only now, why? Well the main reason is that I'm not very familiar with Titans and Young Justice franchises (I guess they are one franchise by this point?) and I never found them very interesting. So I figured that I might talk a bit about E-11 in general as well. I'm sure that there are some old stories where gender flips where first used (after all, what is Supergirl if not a gender flipped Superman?), but it is generally considered that the roots of E-11 are in Loeb's Superman/Batman run, issues #23-24 to be more precise. Loeb doesn't do much really with it there, just shows us few gender flipped characters and writes some things that don't really make much sense if you spend 5 minutes thinking about it. But to be fair Loeb never intended for it to matter, it was just a silly idea to fill some pages. After that we got an expansion on this idea with Search for Ray Palm...