This whole issue was a huge improvement over BTFC. I guess Daniel can really write when Editorial is not hanging over every plot twist. And Selina looks really gorgeous here. Pretty svelte and in-shape for someone who’s both had Bruce Wayne’s daughter a kid and had her heart cut out of her chest recently (DCU time).
Some observations: 1) With the return of the Falcones and Selina’s possible relationship with them (“Catgirl” Falcone had the same shape and color eyes as Selina) it seems Daniel’s cementing Loeb’s Long Halloween and as hard continuity in the “New Earth” DCU (prior to this IMO its been up in the air on that issue). So I guess that means that the fact that playboy “Bruce Wayne” and Selina were in a hot-and-heavy intimate relationship as early as Year 2 is also now back in fact? The pool scene with Dick is almost certainly a homage to the scene where Selina introduces Mario Falcone to Bruce as he’s coming out of the pool in DV. Yet in Loeb’s Hush they seemed more like acquaintances than people who had known each other for a decade and I believe Post-COIE they really didn’t meet as Bruce and Selina until the Knightfall saga. But judging from 692 has their relationship’s length/beginning has been set back to Y2 now? Anyone?
2) I have to wonder if Selina and Dick would really be discussing the words “Bruce” and Batmobile“ with other people around. And Selina telling Dick she and Bruce loved each other? I don’t think she even ever told Bruce that! Now she’s casually saying it in public?
Yet,I do get a kick out of some folk on some(which shall remain nameless) thinking they saw some sexual tension between Dick and Selina here. I laugh because Selina pretty much has sexual tension with everyone she meets (male or female - look at her and Ivy!) and yet had zero with some guy named Sam Bradley Jr. (sorry Will Pfeiffer but it’s true). There’s more in the air in this one scene between her and the son of the love of her life (and ewww on ever going there) than there was between her and her titular baby-daddy who she jeopardized her relationship with Slam (her former lover himself!) for to have an OOC one-night-stand with. Please somebody (, Daniel, etc.) ret-con that story and quick! The more time passes the more ridiculous it becomes.