Darwyn Cooke is Awesome - Reason 56: Selina's Big Score

[espanolbot]

This series marks the transition between the old purple outfitted Catwoman, and the goggled version from the Cooke/Brubaker/Stewart run.

It's essentially a heist story, which deals with more a broke Selina pulling off a robbery with a bunch of her former partners in crime while not really getting into the whole costume deal, due to the world thinking that she was dead at the time and her wanting it to stay that way.

It also has a lot of references to various crime stories and films from the Sixties and Seventies, for example a character named Stark after the novelist Richard Stark, who happens to look a lot of Lee Marvin or something.







title: selina's big score
char: catwoman/selina kyle

Comments

[retro_nouveau]

Love! I especially liked Stark (who is completely Lee Marvin), Jeff (I see a very young Marlon Brando) and Swifty. Oh, and Mom is cool.

Jeff said "OIE-YAH!" a lot. Does that mean anything to anyone? I figure it's very regional, or Darwyn made it up. Google fails me. From context, it's just "aw, yeah" in a Scandinavian dialect.

Yeah, Selina, you say you don't like guns. But that was then. Slam and Black Mask would say different.

[thehefner]

Lee Marvin, who acted in POINT BLANK, which was based on THE HUNTER by Richard Stark, which Cooke eventually adapted into graphic novel!

The Hunter

[pyynk]

Darwyn's adaptation of The Hunter is pure awesomesauce. It's pretty much become one of my go-to trades for a present.

[nezchan]

It ain't a heist story unless you put a lot of stars in it, yup!