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espanolbot (espanolbot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-02 13:56:00

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char: catwoman/holly robinson, char: catwoman/selina kyle, char: hawkgirl/kendra saunders, creator: cameron stewart, creator: ed brubaker, creator: jim balent, publisher: dc comics, title: catwoman

Catwoman Abridged: Wild Ride (4 of 4)
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And so we come to the end of our story, in the Southern city of Saint Roch. While Selina goes off with Wildcat, Hawkman and Hawkgirl to discuss the Egyptian Ninja Cult that has been following Selina for the past couple of issues.

While that is going on, Holly is exploring by herself,

We cut to later, where Selina has managed to hit it off with Hawkgirl, but she realises that she's late for the suprise that she had prepared for Holly, so has to get a lift to get there on time.

But who is this mysterious stranger that Selina, Slam and Co. have been following all this time? Why, it's...

And so the story ends with Holly being reunited with her long lost brother, Selina's made another superfriend and the gloom of the previous storyline is forgotten, hooray!

Weird that some people in my previous posts from this storyline actually seemed to prefer this version of Selina,

To the version drawn by Cameron Stewart and Darwyn Cooke though.

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	espanolbot 2009-06-02 08:30 am UTC (link)
	I kind of meant that people said they prefered the art of the Balent run to the Stewart/Cooke stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	thandrak 2009-06-02 10:38 am UTC (link)
	I liked the acrobatics of the previous incarnation. It was flowing and inhuman. The leather era is more pulpy. Not that it's worse, it's just different, and I miss the old version. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bluefall 2009-06-02 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	This is a really excellent point. I really don't care for the Balent era visually at all, but it was extremely light, airy and dynamic, traits very suited to Catwoman stories and sadly missing in the goggles era (which, as SELINA'S BIG SCORE makes clear, can't be attributed entirely to the writing). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

thandrak
2009-06-02 08:12 pm UTC (link)

The Balent Catwoman was an equal to the Batgod. This one isn't. Not that this era is bad. I love the stories and atmosphere of this era, but... she just can't keep up with Batman, and she could _never_ outfight or outdance or outwit him. She's just on a lower powered version of reality. We've all but lost the competition between the two, these days... she's not a challenge to him anymore.

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chipsnopotatoes
2009-06-02 10:22 pm UTC (link)

agree. it's like DC demoted her on purpose and I'm not sure why.

Also, regardless of how good the writing is, I don't think reviving the origin of her as a prostitute was good for the character. it opens the character to abuse from writers less sympathetic to the character (Morrison, reading his panel on Selina in the post RIP recap is like nails on chalkboard to me) and really limits her appeal to a smaller segment of readers. Book sales never really recovered to the nineties level in this third series, did it?

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	statham1986 2009-06-03 10:04 am UTC (link)
	'Book sales never really recovered to the nineties level in this third series, did it?' Didn't the nineties feature that infamous period where anyone would buy anything in the vain hopes it would one day become valuable? Sales have dropped since then for all titles, I'd imagine. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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