Hello everyone, today I will give you a little bit of the story of Batman and Catwoman.
Batman Catwoman, a comic originally scheduled to be released in early 2020, was delayed for some reason, and after nearly a year of immersion, Tom King seems to have finally found his form, serializing the independent comics Rorschach and Batman Catwoman.
The former is a challenge for TK to his own screenwriting level, while the latter is his dissatisfaction with Batman V3 and the embarrassment of countless comic book readers.
If you ask a veteran DC fan, he'll tell you that Tom King's level is really great, but he also wrote the "worst" Batman story because he has his own understanding of some of the characters, and the ambition is not small, just like the success of Vision v3, TK has been looking forward to himself being able to redefine a character again.
He once boasted about Haikou before "Bain City" began to be serialized, indicating that he would definitely change the role of Batman forever, leaving incurable scars in his heart, and then the old butler sacrificed to heaven, and TK himself was fiercely complained about by netizens for a while.
Except for the real god-level screenwriter, almost no one can redefine the role of Batman.
Because in the process of more than 80 years of serialization, Batman is constantly being improved, constantly being improved by new screenwriters, and finally solidified into the image in people's minds today.
What Tom King should do is write a good Batman comic story, rather than trying to redefine it, after all, from the reader's point of view, this idea is really too inflated.
He made too many mistakes in Batman V3, and eventually lost the opportunity to continue the series due to declining sales, but DC still gave him some compensation, so we can see this comic called "Batman Catwoman" in the black label series today.
To understand the story, you first need to read two comics related to Batman V3.
The first comic was V3 Yearbook 02, which tells a story called "One Day" that is actually the origin story of the love between Batman and Catwoman, and I can't say that this comic is the best single issue written by Tom King, but at least it is my personal favorite.
In TK's setting, Batman is deeply attracted to Catwoman the first time he meets this woman, and his obsession is not just to catch Catwoman.
Looking at the love stories experienced by all superheroes, Batman is undoubtedly lucky, although TK's performance in V3 is indeed very poor, but he has perfectly completed the part of Batman comics that has been missing so far - love.
The comic is still somewhat connected to the plot of the main universe, the black label has proved that it will be a relatively independent story, and TK is ambitious to intersperse three timelines in the comic.
past.
Right now.
future.
In the first issue of the comic, two timelines are more obvious, the first being the story of Catwoman and Batman after they are together.
In Bruce Wayne's life, Catwoman, although he is the love of his life, is not his first love, and the mysterious woman who appears in front of him and Catwoman this time is Bruce Wayne's first love, Andrea Beaumont, the relationship between the two of them once reached the point of talking about marriage, but unfortunately there is no part in the end, and when they meet again many years later, Andrea Beaumont has completely degenerated and become a supervillain "phantom man".
The plot of the comics follows the animated film Batman v Phantom Man, in which Andrea Beaumont and the Joker perish together, but now it seems that both successfully escaped from the final explosion.
Andrea Beaumont chose to remain anonymous for a while, and this time she came to find Batman, which made Bruce Wayne a little embarrassed and embarrassed.
Andrea has a 14-year-old son, whose name is Andrew Beaumont, who ran away from home for Gotham City, and it's not too difficult for Batman to find a teenager.
He and Catwoman work together to stir up a swarm of crocodiles in the sewers, and after getting information, he learns andrew's whereabouts from the mouth of a teenager, but unfortunately, when the two of them find the teenager's tent, it is too late.
The clown poison had already taken his life, and the teenager had come to Gotham City for only one purpose, to find his father.
Crying, Andrea Beaumont told the police that her son's father had long since died, but it was not very difficult for the former super Assassin to lose his beloved, fall into darkness and become a phantom again.
The second timeline belongs to the future, and the plot also inherits the future timeline in batman v3 annual 02.
In the future, the elderly Batman was diagnosed with an incurable disease, and although the entire Bat family used all methods, the bat's was so stubborn that he eventually died peacefully under the watchful eye of his family.
Some of these days，
You'll gonna feel so lonely
The next story takes place in the commemorative issue of Catwoman's 80th anniversary, telling the story of Catwoman who became pregnant and gave birth to Helena.
This genre is really very suitable for TK, because of all the screenwriters, he is a good at describing delicate emotions.
When a child is born, parents may endow all their emotions on her, as the elderly Catwoman said to Helena.
"You stole my heart!"
The story of the future officially begins here, when Batman dies, what will the elderly Catwoman choose?
The answer is very simple, for this world, some people do not deserve to live, Catwoman will begin to take revenge, and the first object of revenge is the Joker.
As the most feared villain in Gotham City, what kind of ending will the Joker have?
The elderly Catwoman drives to a resort town where the Joker is living in seclusion as an ordinary person... And the old man in front of him is actually a clown.
Judging from the conversations he had with Selena, the Joker's life after retirement was very comfortable, and he not only had his own children, but could even be called a full house of children and grandchildren.
Interspersed here are the memories of the Joker and Catwoman, and there have been some conversations between them, interspersed with some past events, and then Catwoman tells the Joker about Batman's death.
After a period of silence, the Joker covered his face and wept.
And Catwoman finally explained her intentions at this time, her purpose is to take the Life of the Joker.
When Batman dies, he can no longer stop Catwoman from killing the Joker, because the Joker did something very wrong with Andrea.
Andrea Beaumont's father was originally the richest man in Gotham City, but the Joker and some other villains teamed up to destroy Andrea's happy family, and she eventually blackened into the Phantom Man. And when she loses her loved ones again, Andrea once again puts on the Phantom Man's suit.
So the showdown between the old Catwoman and the Joker is the end of the story, which Tom King explained in the first issue of the comic.
It's a revenge that belongs to Catwoman, but it's too late.