Mystery of the Batwoman

[arbre_rieur]

Four more pages from BATMAN, INCORPORATED #4...

This issue fleshes out the backstory of Kathy Kane, the first Batwoman. At one point, she was invited to join an elite spy organization.



Interestingly, we find out later in the issue that Agent-33 is El Gaucho.

Comments

[drmcninja]

That is easily the greatest reply possible to Bruce's statement. Plus, it begs the question: would Batman go into the Ladies' Room?

I for one would love to see a story where the Joker gets away because Batman refuses to set foot in there.

[lilacsigil]

I think Batman would go into the Ladies' Room without hesitation...but I don't think Superman would!

[schala_kid]

I don't know what comic it was, but there was a scene where some criminals doing some illegal activities (I think they were making drugs not sure) in a Bathroom/Restroom in Metropolis. When asked why they were doing it in there they said that Superman was in no way going to look there because he was too polite and modest.

[jkcarrier]

That was the Question mini-series by Rick Veitch and Tommy Lee Edwards. Lots of clever bits in there.

[schala_kid]

Thanks :D

[blunderbuss]

That's ... actually really smart. :O

[kenn_el]

The Batman TV series went there (and I think it's what Morrison was referencing in a tongue-in-cheek way) with Catwoman escaping through a women's dressing room and Bruce and Dick being unable/willing to give chase, leaving Batgirl to pursue her (and get captured, as usual, sadly). A similar homage occurred in the Batman Confidential series with Batgirl and Catwoman.

[drmcninja]

Excuse me while I go and find that episode. Immediately.

[omimouse]

That may have also been the episode where Batman, Robin, and Batgirl were tied into a 'human knot' as the 'leave all alone to die' device.

I saw that episode when I was 12, and between it and the X-Files BDSM slash fanfic at 14, there are days when I wonder if my whole puberty was just set-up for joining scans_daily.

[icon_uk]

The human knot wasn't in a Catwoman episode though, it was in the last ever episode "Nora Clavicile and the Ladies Crime Club".

[greenmask]

..Never challenge the knowledge of a master. X]

[icon_uk]

Nah, in this case I only remember it because even as a 10-year-old it looked uniquely improbable as a form of restraint, and as the plot involved Nora Clavicle replacing all the male police officers in Gotham with females (so they'd spend more time fixing their make up than stopping crooks) and her master plan was to release explosive clockwork mice (because the female officers would, of course, be too scared of the mice to do anything about it) even I felt the show was scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[greenmask]

O_O

[icon_uk]

Yeah, though my expression was more o_O than O_O

[droolfangrrl]

Hm... my own personal response has been, "ACK VERMIN" and then assist my cat to kill it, if she wants to "play" then I dispatched it with a shovel.

[halloweenjack]

...and the last episode of Star Trek TOS had a crazy lady switching bodies with Kirk because Starfleet wouldn't let women become starship captains. WTH, 60s TV?

[omimouse]

Ah! Now I remember it, yes. See, the only thing that I really paid attention to was the human knot. Namely, I kept trying to figure out where people's hands were in relation to the other two in said knot . . .

-coughs-

[jarodrussell]

Had to look it up, but the episode is "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill."

[jarodrussell]

Sadly? That was one of the best death traps of the series.