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Batman #126: Failsafe, Part Two
Oct. 1st, 2022 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superboyprime
"Whenever you write pre-existing characters, you look for things that haven't been done with them before, or new ways of looking at them and their motivations. With The Penguin, he's a fascinating character through and through and I thought his death could shed more light on who he really was and what he was going through." - Chip Zdarsky
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laughing_tree
When a woman loves and marries a man she is not obligated to adopt all of his values. Selina retains her sense of self and her sense of morality, and Bruce loves her because she does, not despite it. -- Tom King
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Batman/Catwoman #10 - "I Saw Three Ships"
Mar. 8th, 2022 11:52 pmlaughing_tree
I remember people being mad when I brought Catwoman into BATMAN. It was like, “Oh, this is a tired romance. Nobody cares about this anymore.” Now that it’s on every billboard in my neighborhood... -- Tom King
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Batman/Catwoman Special #1 - "Interlude"
Feb. 26th, 2022 10:09 pmlaughing_tree
Written for John Paul Leon who drew about third of it before he passed, it’s now a tribute to him. Finished by JPL’s friends, it’s about life and death and all the holidays in between. -- Tom King
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laughing_tree
This is not something that takes place in the everyday mainstream continuity. To me, it's one of those things that defines continuity in where it's sort of like The Killing Joke [...] Even though back then it wasn't part of continuity and fit in, it defined continuity but didn't conform to it. -- Tom King
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laughing_tree
I think part of this new generation that's growing up that lives with a constant barrage of negativity in their lives, between social media and the news and everything, and they want to escape that. It's hard for them to escape into Batman as a "vengeance is the night" character. But the fact that we can bend Batman to become something light and cute and fun and still be true to that character, I think that's amazing. -- Tom King
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laughing_tree
Okay, I feel the goal of romance comics is watching the journey discover that they're two pieces that fit together. I love romance comics, but that's not really what's happening here. These two pieces already fit together and we're watching the impact of it. So it's almost like the moment after the romance comic. -- Tom King
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Batman/Catwoman #6-7 - "Joy to the World"
Sep. 7th, 2021 02:51 amlaughing_tree
The criminal reaches for the pearls, and Batman ends up falling for someone whose sole purpose is to steal jewelry. That’s some fucked up Freudian shit, man. -- Tom King
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Batman/Catwoman #5 - "Jingle Bells"
Jul. 4th, 2021 12:05 amlaughing_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
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laughing_tree
He will always have this sense of self of who he is as Batman, and yeah, Selina is the exact opposite when she's Catwoman. She's had one of these lives where who she was at 10 is not who she is when she was 20, she's not who she is at 30 who she was at 20, she's not who she is at 40 who she was at 30...and people live both of those lives. There are people who are like 'I'm the same who I was at 16!' and there are some that just transform every year. -- Tom King
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laughing_tree
I’ve written a lot of books about falling in love and finding comfort in each other. This isn’t that. It’s about how two people affect and can’t affect each other. [Catwoman] came to Batman and denied herself — this aspect of her, I have to break the law — to be with him. She changes for Batman. Is that a good thing or bad thing? When he dies, does she revert to who she was? Or was that always what she was? It’s a look at what it means to be alive in a very comic book way. -- Tom King
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Batman/Catwoman #2 - "Up on the Housetop"
Feb. 16th, 2021 08:03 pmlaughing_tree
I had this revelation.... Well, not a revelation, but I was rereading Love and Rockets and I have always done these transitions with captions; then I read how Hernandez was doing it and how they had two panels apart and it be like a year later and no indication of that and it was up to the reader to figure that out. The writer trusted me to figure that out. So what you have in these three books is my abandonment on a technical level on those devices. On some level, that feels more real and you get a sense of what life is like as sometimes I don't notice how time goes by. The reader has that magic of going 'Wait, where am I? Ah, yes now I understand!' and you see the passing of time not with captions but the actual story. So this takes place in three different timelines. -- Tom King
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Batman/Catwoman #1 - "Silent Night"
Dec. 29th, 2020 02:17 amlaughing_tree
It's almost like I feel I never got to do something as elevated as Vision or Mister Miracle with Batman. Because it was double-shipped and because we had the artists who had to ship monthly and just because we all had regular life, it's a book that had to be a kind of sprint/marathon. And I'm super proud of it. But we never got to go super deep like I did with those 12 issues minis. And then now I get to sort of do that with Clay on Bat/Cat. We get to do, like I said, a kind of Dark Knight Returns standalone thing. And those are the things I loved writing. -- Tom King
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