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I was going to avoid the Catwoman. I guess there is no way.
It's a decent title. Little iffy there a few issues back with the ree-cock-u-lous cult thing, but still a decent title.
I re-read the first two trades of this version recently, and they were still pretty enjoyable. (I got them back when I was only picking up trades of things, and wasn't as fully inside the DCU as I am now, so I wasn't sure if I'd still find them swell.)
It's a decent title. Little iffy there a few issues back with the ree-cock-u-lous cult thing, but still a decent title.
To tell the truth, it's much more like a crime story with superhero elements, rather than a straight superhero story (aside from that cult side-plot), which makes sense since Ed Brubaker writes it. Not at all related to the abomination that is the movie, and I hope that the movie's failure doesn't sink the book. (I do hear that Brubaker is going to end his run around #50, so who knows what will happen after that?)
Could be. Detective Comics is what put the "DC" in DC Comics.
Yes. The next issue is #797, and it is the second longest running title in comics.
What's the longest?
Action Comics, with its next issue being #818.
(I do hear that Brubaker is going to end his run around #50, so who knows what will happen after that?)
We can dream of Rucka taking it?
We're at what now? 30? 31? There's a good chunk of time left, I suppose.
We'll see. I like Selina much more in this version of her own title than I ever have in any of the other books.
Action Comics, with its next issue being #818.
Action Comics has the higher numbering, but it went weekly for a while a decade or so back. I think Detective is actually the longest-running comic book chronologically, although the company that became DC may have been publishing New Fun Comics earlier than its debut.
I've never managed to get into Selina Kyle. Catwoman's seemed kinda forced (how grey can Batman get?) to me except in a couple Elseworlds incarnations -- the one where she was a madam, and a Chaykin one, IIRC. To compensate, all her other Elseworlds appearances were even less tolerable than I normally find her.
As for Bats and the muddy lines, I prefer Talia.
To compensate, all her other Elseworlds appearances were even less tolerable than I normally find her.
Have you read Nine Lives?
I'm not sure how I feel about Talia. I keep trying and failing to make my mind up about that one.
Have you read Nine Lives?
That's the one where she's a madam, right? Or at least banging everyone in Gotham? Yeah -- that's the one I like the most.
My absolute most hated was the one where Batman is a vampire and she's a werecat. Dear lord.
She's a werecat? Bwahahahaha!
Is Batman the sort of vampire that turns into a bat?
Also v. funny.
We must make sure that nobody who works at a movie studio gets their hands on that story.