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A Look Inside Batwoman #1 By Greg Rucka & Dani For DC Next Level

A Better Look Inside Batwoman #1 By Greg Rucka and Dani For DC Next Level in March 2026



Article Summary

  • Greg Rucka returns to Batwoman with artist Dani for a bold new series launching in March 2026 from DC Next Level
  • Kate Kane is haunted by prophecy and a secretive cult, with a new mission that will redefine Batwoman's legacy
  • The creative team features colorist Matt Hollingsworth and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, set initially in Greece
  • Rucka and Dani promise a fresh take, tackling unresolved stories from the past and major changes for Batwoman

We have a better look at the new Batwoman comic book series by Greg Rucka and Dani which was first revealed at the DC Comics panel at New York Comic Con as part of the DC Next Level promotional programme and part of DC Comics' March 2026. This is what we saw back then…

Here is how it looks now, from DC Comics' March 2026 solicits and solicitations and DC Next Level.

 

BATWOMAN #1
Writer(s): GREG RUCKA
Artist(s): DANI
Cover Artist(s): DANI
Variant Covers:
Variant covers by STANLEY ARTGERM LAU and STJEPAN ŠEJIĆ
Next Level variant cover by JORGE CORONA
Foil variant cover by STANLEY "ARTGERM LAU
1:25 variant cover by JOSHUA "SWAY SWABY
Blank sketch cover
$3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock)
On Sale: 3/11/26
Batwoman. Daughter. Sister. Soldier. Hero. But since she was 10 years old, Kate Kane has lived in the shadow of a prophecy and the machinations of a religion devoted to the end of all things. How do you fight the devil when the devil is real? And how do you win? Acclaimed writer and co-creator of the modern Batwoman Greg Rucka returns to the story of Kate Kane alongside visionary artist DaNi for a DC Next Level series that will redefine Batwoman and her mission for a new generation.

Greg Rucka and JH Williams left the Batwoman title when Dan DiDio stated that they couldn't marry Batwoman, Kate Kane, to her fiancée, Maggie Sawyer, in 2013. Thirteen years later, Greg Rucka is back on Batwoman, and he is bringing comic book artist Dani with him, with Matt Hollingsworth on colours, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou on letters and edited by James Reid. With a story that he's been thinking about even longer than that, seventeen years, and a chance to resolve the situation he left on, an "exorcism", and promising a wild ride for the first five issues. The book will be set in Greece, initially, which suits Greek artist Dani just fine. But they are promising changes… Scott Snyder sees her as one of the best fighters, both physically and ethically, in the DCU.

Greg Rucka is best known for the novels starring his character Atticus Kodiak, and comic books Whiteout, Queen & Country, Stumptown and Lazarus, as well as lengthy runs on such titles as Detective Comics, Wonder Woman and Gotham Central for DC Comics, and Elektra, Wolverine and The Punisher for Marvel. Rucka also write the screenplay for the 2020 film The Old Guard, based on his comic book series.

Dani, also known as Dani Strips studied sculpture in the Athens School of Fine Arts and has worked for 2000AD on Fiends of the Eastern Front, Judge Anderson, Misty, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Salmon of Doubt, The Girl With No Name, The Dreaming, The Low, Low Woods and co-created Coffin Bound. Batwoman will be Greg Rucka and Dani's first collaboration in March 2026.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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