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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-06 17:28:00

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char: catwoman/holly robinson, char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: samuel "slam" bradley, char: wildcat/ted grant, creator: cameron stewart, creator: ed brubaker, publisher: dc comics, title: catwoman

Catwoman Abridged: Wild Ride (Part 1 of 4)
Abridged as in Short, not me re-editting it in order to pinch some of Little Kuriboh's fanbase.

People've have been bashing the Ed Brubaker run of Catwoman lately, complaining about the violence and the fact that it combined the various parts of the modern origins of Selina instead of going for the cliched "rich person steals for fun" angle.

As a counterpoint to the above, here's a shortened version of the Wild Ride storyline, which combines a "positive storyline" with awesome artwork.

This storyline takes place after the storyline Relentless, where Selina and Holly decide to go on a roadtrip across the DCU's America in order to bond and to help the pair get over the events of the previous big storyline, Relentless.

Here they are about to leave, and are saying goodbye to their girlfriend and the friend who Selina slept with while she was moping about the fate of her sister etc.,

We cut to a farm that Selina owns up in Upstate New York, where she has a suprise in store for Holly.

And thus, Holly begins her self defence training with Wildcat, who was the guy who Selina learned from back in the beginning. We cut forward through Holly's training montage and a subplot involving an ancient Egyptian ninja cult whose conclusion wasn't collected in trade form. Annoyingly.

Up next: Keystone City! Site seeing! Grand Theft!
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	statham1986 2009-05-06 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, so, having read the first trade of the new JSA at my local library, can I just say I much prefer this Ted Grant over Johns' 'idon'twannadothizbecausei'mnotaleaderyouguyz' version? (Reply to this)

	merseybeatler 2009-05-06 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm. Holly's girlfriend looks exactly like Selina....this confused me enough to read that page about three times before I figured it out. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-05-06 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	Normally she has pink hair, presumably she's growing it out here. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	batcookies 2009-05-06 03:52 pm UTC (link)
	It's bad to want a book about the world's greatest thief be about her working as a thief and not as Gotham Vigilante #328291? And I don't think many people were asking for the "rich person steals for fun" angle. But I'm willing to bet they outnumber the people that wanted the "Catwoman gets powers from an ancient Egyptian cat-themed cult" angle that Brubaker tries. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-05-06 05:33 pm UTC (link)
	Since when has Selina been billed as the world's greatest thief and not just Gotham's? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-06 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	For a while now... That's her schtick, best thief in the DCU. It's not like she has any other competition, really. I can't think of any great thieves off the top of my head. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-06 11:49 pm UTC (link)
	You mean in the DCU, or at all? 'Cause I can think of a few, if it's the latter. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sailorlibra 2009-05-07 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	Just in the DCU. I mean, competition from Marvel or some other company wouldn't really stop her from being the best thief in her world. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-05-08 04:43 am UTC (link)

A challenge! *cracks knuckles* Lemme see, now... Well, the Crimson Fox's boyfriend Renee CLAIMED to be 'the greatest thief in the world' back in JLI, although that could have just been hyperbole. The Italian version of Angle Man appears to be a pretty good thief - he's probably more of a mercenary, actually, but we've only ever seen him thieving, and he seems like more of a lover than a fighter. The Shadow Thief tends to live up to his name, and while the Gentleman Ghost isn't a thief per se, we do see him engaged in robberies more than any other crime. There are probably more, but those are all I can think of for now.

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	jlbarnett 2009-05-06 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	It's bad to want a book about the world's greatest thief be about her working as a thief and not as Gotham Vigilante #328291? well, I personally don't understand why people want to read about people breaking laws. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-05-06 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	Technically speaking, wouldn't that cover all superhero books except Superman, Wonder Woman (pre-Maxlord Kerfuffle), all pro-Reg superheroes in Marvel that aren't overtly larcenous and Batman and Robin when they were deputised by the GCPD back in the 1950s? (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-05-06 11:46 pm UTC (link)

What - you don't like a good heist movie every now and again? Or, for that matter, Star Wars, anything involving Robin Hood or Zorro, pirates, ninjas, the Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, every single stoner comedy ever made (although, for the record, I hate stoner comedies, but just sayin'), the Godfather movies, Goodfellas, two-thirds of the careers of James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, most of Quentin Tarantino's movies, Sin City, V for Vendetta, etc., etc. Crime has fascinated people ever since the first laws were made; it's the thrill of the forbidden, the danger of going up against the establishment. "Breakin' da law, breakin' da law", y'know? And Catwoman is slinky and sexy - why wouldn't we want to read about her?

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jlbarnett
2009-05-07 05:31 am UTC (link)

I don't count things that are portrayed as "incorrect" laws. Though I've
never watched a movie about the French Revolution.

Don't watch stoner comedies, not a fan of Tarantino, not interested in Sin City or V for Vendetta. Or the Godfather movies for that matter. Haven't seen many movies by Cagney or Bogart, none by Robinson.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas is about how he stopped trying to do that for me.

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psychop_rex
2009-05-07 03:18 pm UTC (link)

You SHOULD be interested in Sin City and V for Vendetta - they're brilliant. (The movie versions, anyway; the VfV comic is also brilliant, but I've never read any Sin City.) And Robinson is very good.
Look, my point is not so much in the specific examples, it's that crime fiction, be it in the form of a movie, book, comic, whatever, is deeply intrenched in the public consciousness, and why? Because through it, the public gets to experience the vicarious thrill of people doing things that everyone has, at one time or another, wanted to do. Everybody wants things, and most people have to work for them - criminals reach out and take 'em. They're doers - they start things. It's the same reason why villains are arguably more fascinating than heroes - we admire the heroes for being good, but we envy the villains for their freedom to be bad. Who hasn't looked longingly at something through a shop window, something that they can't afford, and thought 'wouldn't it be great if I could just TAKE that?' Well, a criminal can. Who hasn't had an enemy, and thought in a moment of fury 'I want to KILL that guy!' Well, a criminal would kill him.
The law is, by and large, a good thing - it prevents chaos - yet it is also a restrictive thing, and people chafe under its restraints. Crime fiction represents our fantasies of breaking loose from those restraints. You may be the world's most morally upright citizen who would never dream of so much as jaywalking, but I'd bet quite a bit that crime fiction would still hold the power to thrill you.

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	jlbarnett 2009-05-07 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	Crime fiction represents our fantasies of breaking loose from those restraints. Oh. Well that explains why I don't get the thrill. I've always been very fond of my "restraints" and just having a moment where I do something stupid before I have a chance to think about it (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-05-07 05:08 pm UTC (link)

It's not a matter of 'doing something stupid', it's a matter of doing something that you want to do, but can't due to laws preventing it. Laws, taboos, social codes - they're all restrictions, sometimes necessary ones, but nonetheless restrictions. Crime, while often harmful to oneself, others and society, is nonetheless arguably the ultimate expression of rebellion against societal restrictions. 'I'm sick of doing what THEY want me to do! I'm going to do what I want!' THOSE are the fantasies I'm talking about, which we all feel to some degree or another.

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	jlbarnett 2009-05-07 05:47 pm UTC (link)
	I'm just more repressed than you or something. Or have more faith in authority. Or think like an authority, maybe. I tend to feel most things that are against the law are stupid. Sure I have fantasies like that. Then I immediately feel horrible about it and mentally beat myself up for being a bad person. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-07 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	Well, each to their own. I'm nobody's idea of a wild man myself, but I can certainly appreciate a good gangster flick. Perhaps it's my northern Californian upbringing - being surrounded by ex-hippies and their descendants does not do wonders for one's sense of reverence for the cops. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-05-06 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	I'm hoping Bill Williangham will do more with wildcat when he takes over JSA. He has not been the same since he had a kitten. (Reply to this)

	chipsnopotatoes 2009-05-06 09:11 pm UTC (link)
	why is "rich people steal for fun" cliched? i dont like this artwork much. (Reply to this)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-06 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, so I know who Selina is, and Holly, but who's this third woman? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-05-07 04:57 am UTC (link)
	Holly's girlfriend, Karon. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-07 02:55 pm UTC (link)
	Oho. GIRLFRIEND girlfriend, or friend-who-happens-to-be-a-girl? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-05-07 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Girlfriend as in they make out girlfriend. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-05-07 04:50 pm UTC (link)
	GIRLFRIEND girlfriend, then. A necessary qualification these days. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thehefner 2009-05-07 12:30 am UTC (link)
	Well I, for one, love this run and pretty much everything about it. I anxiously await the rest of our abridged version! (Reply to this)

	rdfox 2009-05-13 08:53 am UTC (link)
	A bit late, I admit (was out of town for a week), but reading this, I have just one question. When, exactly, was Selina banging Jonah Jameson? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	espanolbot 2009-05-13 08:57 am UTC (link)
	After Black Mask fed her sister her husband's eyes, but before this storyline. (Reply to this) (Parent)

indy2012
2009-05-31 11:24 pm UTC (link)

This has to be the sexiest Wildcat since JSA #10 where he fought off the Injustice Society in nothing but a bath towel ;)

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f66/Canker_Blossom/5ywctowel.jpg

But seriously, I loved Brubaker's run, especially No Easy Way Down. He made Slam Bradley one of my favorite comic characters of all time. But you could tell that Brubaker was getting tired by the end of the War Games/Black Mask storylines.

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