There was some speculation following 2012’s Dark Knight Rises that Selina Kyle, the Catwoman character played impeccably by Anne Hathaway, might be attracted to women. Christopher Nolan’s film depicted the villainess as using her sexuality to prey on and manipulate males, Bruce Wayne among them. The most tenderness she showed, it seemed, was directed towards her female flatmate, played by Juno Temple. And now, three years after those sexually confusing undertones, current Catwoman writer Genevieve Valentine has confirmed that Kyle—who first surfaced in a 1940s Batman issue, and has had many a romantic encounter with the caped crusader—is indeed bisexual.

In the newest issue of Catwoman, Kyle, who has bequeathed her iconic cat suit to a character named Eiko Hasigawa, is seen kissing her Catwoman successor. (Let’s not even delve into the psychological significance of Catwoman kissing Catwoman.) In a blog post published today, Valentine writes that confirming Kyle’s bisexuality had been a goal of hers.

“When I was first plotting out what I expected to be a six-issue arc, there were a few emotional beats I considered indispensable,” Valentine said of her work on the series, which began in October. “[O]ne was establishing Selina as canon bisexual . . . She’s flirted around it—often quite literally—for years now; for me, this wasn’t a revelation so much as a confirmation. And as [editor] Mark Doyle and I were first hashing out the relationships in this arc, Eiko seemed like the right person: intelligent, driven, in that uncanny valley of Almost Catwoman, and knows enough about Selina that their honesty has become something of a shelter in a situation that’s getting increasingly dishonest for everybody involved. The more we talked about it, the more it was something I wanted to make happen.”

Kyle, however, is not the first Catwoman to reveal herself as not being heterosexual. Kyle’s protégé Holly Robinson, who once wore the iconic cowl, is gay, and even earned Catwoman a GLAAD Media Award for its portrayal of Robinson as an openly homosexual character.