Catwoman: Anodyne - Part 1 of 4
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scans_dailyI still hold the Ed Brubaker/Cameron Stewart/Darwyn Cooke Catwoman run as possibly one of the greatest comicbook series DC have ever put out. And since I've not posted anything from their run in a while, I thought that I'd put a bit from the first storyarc.
Enjoy!
Following the end of her previous series and the mini-series Selina's Big Score (really good, go read it), in which Selina faked her death by having Catwoman "kill" Selina Kyle (to be honest I'm not to clear on what happened, it involved her running for Mayor of New York or something), Selina is having a bit of an identity crisis.
She's been seeing Leslie Thompkins for some therapy, telling her about her dreams, which are a mash of things from Selina's past: her sister Maggie, her early days in the catsuit, the feeling that life is slipping through her fingers, an interplay of religious and pseudo-sexual imagery... Leslie tells Selina that the dreams aren't the result of drugs like she thought, but rather Selina's subconscious trying to figure out who she is now.
Leslie advises a break from routine, and considering that she's legally dead, Selina decides to move into her old neighbourhood in Gotham's East End, as her places in the posher parts of town aren't really an option at this point. So she moves into the apartment she used to live in way back in Batman: Year One, and muses upon her life and the idea of "home".
While out jogging on roofs, she notices Batman, who is pursuing the Riddler and some of his henchmen, who crash their getaway car into a fire hydrant. She muses where her world really is the black and white world of Batman and his multicoloured criminals, and how without him she'd never have ended up the path to becoming Catwoman herself.
After taking a moment to bean one of the Riddler's henchmen with a brick when he tries to shoot Batman when his back is turned, Selina goes on to say that although they've been companions of one sort or another since the very start, he'll never fully understand her. As he only sees the world in terms of black and white, good and evil, while she understands that the world really is just shades of grey. Of good people put into bad situations.
She decides she knows how she'll finally get some sleep tonight.
She discards her old costume, saying that the old purple mask had become a person of its own, rather than a reflection of who she was, and chooses a new one...
Enjoy!
Following the end of her previous series and the mini-series Selina's Big Score (really good, go read it), in which Selina faked her death by having Catwoman "kill" Selina Kyle (to be honest I'm not to clear on what happened, it involved her running for Mayor of New York or something), Selina is having a bit of an identity crisis.
She's been seeing Leslie Thompkins for some therapy, telling her about her dreams, which are a mash of things from Selina's past: her sister Maggie, her early days in the catsuit, the feeling that life is slipping through her fingers, an interplay of religious and pseudo-sexual imagery... Leslie tells Selina that the dreams aren't the result of drugs like she thought, but rather Selina's subconscious trying to figure out who she is now.
Leslie advises a break from routine, and considering that she's legally dead, Selina decides to move into her old neighbourhood in Gotham's East End, as her places in the posher parts of town aren't really an option at this point. So she moves into the apartment she used to live in way back in Batman: Year One, and muses upon her life and the idea of "home".
While out jogging on roofs, she notices Batman, who is pursuing the Riddler and some of his henchmen, who crash their getaway car into a fire hydrant. She muses where her world really is the black and white world of Batman and his multicoloured criminals, and how without him she'd never have ended up the path to becoming Catwoman herself.
After taking a moment to bean one of the Riddler's henchmen with a brick when he tries to shoot Batman when his back is turned, Selina goes on to say that although they've been companions of one sort or another since the very start, he'll never fully understand her. As he only sees the world in terms of black and white, good and evil, while she understands that the world really is just shades of grey. Of good people put into bad situations.
She decides she knows how she'll finally get some sleep tonight.
She discards her old costume, saying that the old purple mask had become a person of its own, rather than a reflection of who she was, and chooses a new one...
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