Renee being outed didn’t jar me or feel wrong or out of character, so I’d have to say that Rucka handled it well.

Sasha is a Mary Sue, and kind of annoying, but there have been worse, before and since.

How long ago did Montoya get outed as a lesbian? I’m guessing it was once they started fleshing out her character more, but was she gay from the get-go or tdid hey just never brought it up one way or the other? Most of what I remember about Montoya is either her just showing up with Bullock after Bats had done his thing and her supporting role in the animated series.

She was written as straight before Rucka, but she was gay as soon as Rucka started writing her (that is to say, as soon as he began writing her, he felt that she was gay and that’s how he wrote her, even though he did not “out” her for some time after he started on the Bat-titles).

And do note that when Rucka started writing her, he did not know about any past stories saying otherwise, so it was not like he thought he was “changing” anything – he thought he was the first writer to deal with Renee’s sexuality, and he felt strongly that she was gay.

How long ago did Montoya get outed as a lesbian? I’m guessing it was once they started fleshing out her character more, but was she gay from the get-go or tdid hey just never brought it up one way or the other? Most of what I remember about Montoya is either her just showing up with Bullock after Bats had done his thing and her supporting role in the animated series.

I liked Sasha at the time, but yeah, I’ve definitely felt that she was way too much of a pet character from that point on.

I do like Rucka’s writing, but it seems to me whenever he’s on a company owned book (which is always these days), he has a clear stand out pet character.
One of the most annoying aspects of Gotham Central, for me, was that he only ever wanted to write about Montoya.

I thought Sasha fit in just fine as Bruce’s bodyguard. It’s like Karl Kesel’s reasoning for adding in Rosalind Sharpe to the DD books during his run – it’s always good to make sure you have someone who DOESN’T know the hero’s secret identity, which the Batbooks were very much lacking at the time. And given the tone of the Batbooks at the time – Dick was a police officer, the Birds were still in the more espionage-ish era, etc. – Sasha’s bodyguard character seemed to fit in just fine.