Re: I think Bane and Scandal are great!
Yes. Motto to your comment and the one above. I love seeing close, intimate relationships that aren't sexual, and as you say, with Gail Simone writing we don't have to worry about Scandal's sexual orientation being changed.
And I love that while they're all "villains", they're still written as whole human beings with their own sets of morals, even if the moral compass is often skewed different from that of heroes in other books. Moral ambiguity in stories ftw.
Even Deadshot figures if he's going to kill someone, the "right" thing to do is to do it quickly and not let them suffer if they don't deserve it.