well its official the bat and the cat are taking a year-long break in order to deal with the fallout of the joker war which makes sense. All I can say is after 80 years of batcat dancing around each other I hope they will finally marry in the mainstream universe.
However, I also started listening to The Many Lives of Catwoman: The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale via audible and learned that around 41 or 42 batcat almost got married as bruce Wayne near the golden age before cats name was settled as being Selina Kyle. i was thinking that if it was 41 it would a great tribute if the too finally got married 80 after that book was released. However, I would just love it if instead of having them married in a batman book, they have the marriage in Catwomanâs book.
I hope they do get married, and soon. If writers or editors feel it would change the characters or stories too much, I donât think it would have to. You could keep things the same, just have them married. I almost thought thatâs what was going to happen in todayâs issue. I thought Selina was going to suggest they elope right then, and then spend a year apart for the safety reasons Bruce was concerned about.
I havenât read the issue but did read about it and I think this might be the last straw for me when it comes to reading Batman. The âbreakâ, the loss of fortune, leaving the manor. Been there done that. I donât mean this in some angry troll post kind of way, I just donât think this title has anything to offer me personally anymore. Itâs more like a throw my hands in the air and give up because itâs never going to happen. I donât think we will see any kind of stability when it comes to Batman because writing him has basically become author therapy. Itâs always about breaking him down, deconstruction, âand nothing will ever be the sameâ. Then the next team comes along with the exact same themes. As a fan, I feel almost no connection with DC at this point.
Speaking as someone who has read the bookâŚIâd hardly call it a break-up. I mean, they literally say that they still love each other and itâs heavily implied that they have sex in his new place. Thatâs not exactly âbreak-upâ sounding to me.
It sounds like to me that Tynion probably doesnât really want to write Selina as a co-star of the book like King did (or at least doesnât want to do the same things he did) and gave himself a way out without invalidating the relationship. It pretty much sounds like a long-distance relationship to me.
This is almost exactly how I thought it was too, after reading it. Taking a year for them both to figure out themselves is probably because Tynion has some cool solo stuff planned for Batman. And probably the same for Catwomanâs book. (I donât know who writes that one.)
Though, I donât mind either way. Iâm not a big Catwoman fan so this doesnât bother me at all.
I am also getting the feeling that the the reversal of doctor manhattans changes to the time stream has yet to be resolved and corrected yet. so the future shock thingy thatâs going on next year could be the timestream fixing istself and some kinda correcting course will happen that will involve Clark (dr manhattans successor)
Donât get it twisted, Iâm not one of those guys who say that âmarried superheroes canât work / it makes them boringâ and all that, because thatâs lazy.
But I think with Bruce and Selina itâs a little harder for them to do something formal like that. I mean, biggest problem â sheâs a known thief, wanted all over the world. It would be impossible for Bruce and Selina to have an official marriage license, especially since it makes it more likely for people to figure out the secret.
And as the issue shows, while Bruce could conceivably give Selina a new identity to live in Gotham with him, it would feel as false and wrong for Selina as it would be for Bruce to give up Batman and Gotham.
I think King did it best at the end of his run â they love each other, they always will, theyâre together in every way but a vow, and why do they need to have some judge sign a piece of paper to prove it?
True they do not need the piece of paper, however, they also both have rings on their fingers in Helena and last rightsâŚpersonally I do not mind if they wait till there golden years to get hitchedâŚbut I also want a crazy DC wedding event complete with Hangover level bachelor and bachelorette parties for batcat and the drunken ladies of the league having to save the men form some form of âeventâ.
Plus I do not find it fair to batman that superman always gets to marry Lois and when she gone wonder woman yet not only was Catwoman was withheld from the pages of Batman books for 12 years due to a certain book, batcat never gets to get together in the mainstream. from hush to identity crisis to freaken killing off batman in final crises. batman would be even stronger with something to live for and going home to the love of his life would help keep him alive.
well, at least we have batcat official in the nail books, Gotham by gaslight(movie) earth 2âs. I have a love-hate relationship with Kingdome come, on one had its a great series, on the other its what started lonely old mand bruce.
I think technically Dark Knight Returns did that first, though in the end, while single, he wasnât really âlonelyâ (neither was Bruce in the end of KC), and even there was still obvious affection and love for Selina.
Rephrase: bruce and Selina never get together and stay active as the bat and the cat in the main steam. (blushing emoji here)âŚThey do in Helena.
PS: would have been great if they had de-aged the cat in DKR:III aswell.
PSS: I just pictured old lady selina and the girls bachelorette party lol the old gales calling the younglings lightweights and the drunk laidys somehow stealing lex luthers exosuits and head polish.
Read it yesterday, liked it. I donât really care if Batman and Catwoman stay together or break it off, just tiered of the back and forth with it. Make it happen or not, but stop with the on and off again stories itâs annoying. Excited to see Batman get back to the core basics with less gadgets and ppl in his ear. Iâm sure Bruce will go with Foxâs play but I donât really want him to step down from Wayne Enterprise or let Fox keep his money. If it were me Iâd say hell no to his plan. Iâm along the lines on how Captain America felt with the whatever itâs called country accords. By doing this Bruce will lose the ability to decide whatâs best for the company and its direction. The safest hands are his own. Fox and his family may have a change of heart one day, then what? How will these decisions effect other members of the bat family and how Bruceâs capital and resources aid in their crusade? Yeah, no sorry, Iâd say F**k that, youâre not keeping my money or having me step down. Fox you wanna acquire the proprietary tech advances you designed while under contract with Wayne Enterprise, we can open up negotiations. But Iâm not gonna play your little power game with the company my family and I built nor buy into the notion that these PR issues canât be resolved over time.
I just realized half the money joker stole is missing. The foxes only have 50 billion total so eather joker blew threw 50 billion in a few weeks or Selina kept a good amount of the money cause joker had 100 billion dollars at the time of the heist.
cat is still in Gotham and so is bat. so we hopefully will get another fuffy date book or two out of thisâŚi think the new fox brother might be the new batman instead of luke.
Besides Selina keeping a cut, remember she had to give a cut to the penguin and the riddler. I donât remember exactly how joker acquired bruceâs cash but I wonder if the banks would work with him on that 50 mil in some way. Canât imagine heâd get anywhere near what was spent though on the premise of fraudulent charges or an FTC identity theft report
Where they not legal? Was Selina getting one over on Penguin and Riddler in one of the tie-ins? If not Iâm drawing a blank on that one. Iâve got like 19 different titles Iâm reading at the moment not including the digital stuff on here, some details will go by the wayside.