Batman/Catwoman #5 - "Jingle Bells"

[laughing_tree]

[Clay Mann] kept going on about how he loved her and couldn't wait to draw her and if I could find a way to get her in. I was the reluctant one saying "does anybody remember Phantasm...she's only been in the movie [...] Clay was like 'No, you fool! Phantasm is great!' I hadn't seen the movie in 10 years so I rewatched it and, oh my God, it's everything I love about comics! Huge romance, big action just...oh my God, yes let's do this! So when Bat/Cat came along and I wanted to lure Clay into this, I was saying I had big ideas for this, and let's make Phantasm our villain! -- Tom King

Comments

[deh_tommy]

For a book called Batman/Catwoman, there’s a noticeable lack of Batman.

[lucean]

Yeah, I was puzzled by that same thing as looking through these scans.

[tcampbell1000]

That quote sure shows a different side to Tom King than I normally see!

[skinrash]

Wow, Hazel? Neat to see so many BTAS references.

[shakalooloo]

Mm, Black Label: still have to censor all the swearing.

[cyberghostface]

It’s probably up to the writer. Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity had ‘fuck’ and ‘asshole’ uncensored.

[shakalooloo]

Oh, yeah! That just makes it worse! If you can use swearing AND want to display the characters swearing, just do it.

[tinygaylaura]

I ship Selina/Andrea now

Andrea is going to show her that killing criminals isn't the only thing she'll do that Bruce won't

WINK WINK

NUDGE NUDGE

[mister_terrific]

(slow clap)

[mastermahan]

Ha! Well played, Laura.

[tinygaylaura]

*Takes a bow*

[angry_marmot]

Most writers, I'm paying for a glimpse into their imagination. Does anyone else feel like DC is charging us to sit through Tom King's psychotherapy?

[onsokumaru]

Batman smells
Robin laid an egg

(had to get it out of my mind)

[donnblake]

I don't hate this Harley costume although- did she put a full-face doll mask on over her domino mask after she got out of the car?

[icon_uk]

The creepy face mask keeps making me think of the "Kabuki Twin's" Penguin hired as his go-to hench-molls in "The Batman" cartoon.

[icon_uk]

The BTAS comics brought Andrea back as Phantasm IIRC, and gave her an added ability.

She fought Kitsune, an assassin who used an illusion casting gemstone (hologram-y type stuff rather than magic I think), and she added that to her equipment.

I'm not sure how well Andrea works in the already overcrowded comics Bruce history of doomed romances (Selina, Silver, Vesper etc), as compared to BTAS where she was the only one we know of, but she's already a more interesting character than many new villains, so we'll see if she ever crops up again.

Not that struck on harley's depiction here, but I do like Selina's analysis of her.