#dc comics bombshells

Surprised I haven't seen more people use this as a counter to That One Panel edgelords keep posting about Diana

DC Comics Bombshells (2015—2017) #7 - Digital Chapter #21

I did a post a while ago on Bette Kane which discussed a bit of the treatment her character has gone through. She does seem like a pretty interesting character, one whom has had the misfortune of often being pushed to the sidelines and undermined.

So I thought it would be neat to share these panels from DC Comics Bombshells; basically a 1940s Elseworlds centred around female superheroes in the homefronts during World War 2. It seems pretty fun from what I've seen, and I thought it had a pretty cool concept of having Bette take over Kane Industries and act as a philanthropist (presumably because Bruce himself won't be active in this timeline until sometime later).

Is interesting though that Bette specifically got control of Kane Industries and not Kate, which would suggest that Bette's father is older than Jacob? At least in the timeline of Bombshells.

I think I have seen some interpretation which have her be the daughter of Philip Kane (who in the current timeline ran Wayne Industries while Bruce was growing up and also when he was training to be Batman). Probably isn't the intention though since it would presumably have been mentioned if Bette's dad was dead, and also because Philip talks to Bruce about how Martha knew he wasn't fit to be father (which was his justification for having being rather absente in Bruce's life).

The Batgirls, were named not after the winged creatures of the night, but because they began as an all-female baseball team in wartime Gotham City, who branched out into vigilante crime fighting. The Girls are just some of a vast cast of heroines and villainessss aiding and abetting the Nazis who are busy securing both advanced technological and supernatural help to aid them in winning the war, featured in the 2015-2017 series DC Comics Bombshells. Apart from their athleticism and fighting prowess, with nods to their later 1960s namesake, the Batgirls also literally use their baseball bats as weapons when taking down street criminals, crooked politicians and, in this case, the owners of an orphanage who are using it as a front to develop Nazi weapons and to supply the Fatherland with child slave labour.

These panels are from DC Comics Bombshells #21 (2015). The series was inspired by a set of collectible statuettes depicting various DC Comics heroines designed by Ant Lucia. Marguerite Bennett wrote the series, supported by a number of different artists and, like Lucia’s original designs, gave the title a retro 1940s look. The Batgirls are perhaps something of a curiosity, but what’s not to love about an anti-Nazi baseball playing girl gang?