Batwoman: Rebirth, Issue #1 is the title I started to replace The Blue Beetle, which I just couldn't get into. I read Batwoman: Elegy by Greg Rucka, and I followed the J.H. Williams version of the title up until the point that he left following Batwoman's engagement (superheroes are lonely and aren't married, he argued at the time). Add in one of my favorite writers in James Tynion IV, and buying this title became a no-brainer. The basic story remains the same. She attends West Point only to be kicked out because of the now-outdated Section 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which was repealed in 2013.
Rebirth, Issue #1 confirms everything up to a point. Her kidnapping, her training with her father, her sister apparently dying. What is missing is my least favorite aspect of the story, her getting married. Superheroes don't get married. They're divorced, they're single. They get married in alternate realities or in the past or in the future, not the here and now, the real. There are a few exceptions. Peter Parker's story is long and complex, and for a time, he's married.
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