Catwoman: Anodyne 1 of 4
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scans_dailyOne of my all time favourite comic runs is that of the Ed Brubaker/Cameron Stewart/Darwyn Cooke period on Catwoman, and I thought that I'd share some.
The story begins with Selina seeing Leslie Thompkins for some therapy. She's had a rough time of late, has our Selina. Having run out of cash after the events of the Selina's Big Score story (itself a good read, IMO) following the events of her prior series, which seemingly left both her Catwoman and Selina Kyle identities dead in the eyes of the world, Selina is now undergoing something of an identity crisis.
Leslie asks Selina how long it's been since she put on "the outfit", getting the response of around half a year. The good doctor says that the weird dreams are probably her subconscious trying to figure out what kind of direction her life should go, and definitely not drugs like Selina initially thought.
Selina goes home, musing about her past as she goes.
She spots Batman pursuing the Riddler, and wonders why her life always seems to lead back to him in some form or another. To her his view of the world, her world too in some ways, always seems to skew black and white. A case of just good and evil with no space between them for people like her. But despite that, and the fact that their opposing views lead to them being at each others' throats most of the time, she does concede that she owes him a lot, and pauses in her internal monologue to throw a brick, braining one of the Riddler's henchman when he attempts to shoot Batman as he tries to save some civvies from a burning bus.
She heads home, and decides to bin the old purple Balent costume as it kind of represents the kind of persona she adopted for the job, only for it to slowly subvert her actual personality. So, in an attempt to start afresh, Selina puts together a new costume out of bits of military surplus, and heads out into the night... Where she bumps into Bruce.
Selina heads home, and finds to her surprise that someone's trying to break into her apartment. This confuses her, as even with her being supposedly dead that fact that she's one of the Gotham A-list in terms of Rogue Gallery means that, even assumed dead, people taking her stuff isn't really something that happens.
The story begins with Selina seeing Leslie Thompkins for some therapy. She's had a rough time of late, has our Selina. Having run out of cash after the events of the Selina's Big Score story (itself a good read, IMO) following the events of her prior series, which seemingly left both her Catwoman and Selina Kyle identities dead in the eyes of the world, Selina is now undergoing something of an identity crisis.
Leslie asks Selina how long it's been since she put on "the outfit", getting the response of around half a year. The good doctor says that the weird dreams are probably her subconscious trying to figure out what kind of direction her life should go, and definitely not drugs like Selina initially thought.
Selina goes home, musing about her past as she goes.
She spots Batman pursuing the Riddler, and wonders why her life always seems to lead back to him in some form or another. To her his view of the world, her world too in some ways, always seems to skew black and white. A case of just good and evil with no space between them for people like her. But despite that, and the fact that their opposing views lead to them being at each others' throats most of the time, she does concede that she owes him a lot, and pauses in her internal monologue to throw a brick, braining one of the Riddler's henchman when he attempts to shoot Batman as he tries to save some civvies from a burning bus.
She heads home, and decides to bin the old purple Balent costume as it kind of represents the kind of persona she adopted for the job, only for it to slowly subvert her actual personality. So, in an attempt to start afresh, Selina puts together a new costume out of bits of military surplus, and heads out into the night... Where she bumps into Bruce.
Selina heads home, and finds to her surprise that someone's trying to break into her apartment. This confuses her, as even with her being supposedly dead that fact that she's one of the Gotham A-list in terms of Rogue Gallery means that, even assumed dead, people taking her stuff isn't really something that happens.
