#CATWOMAN 80th ANNIVERSARY

[dchuntress]

And If I Fucking Cry And Weep And Bawl My Eyes Out. Then What . Then Wha t .

i'm not a mother. i'm a thief.

what if i don't love her? what if i hate her for what she's trying to take from me? listen, all these months, you've said no, you're crying, shaking, yes, you want to run. but you're here. you're not running. that's not an act, my love. that's just you.

when i was little, when i cried... you know i didn't even have a mother. my mother, she... she ran. my god, you're a cute little kitten. what the %@$# are we going to do with you?

you're like him. even this. you find a way to make it good. you don't think i'm like you? ... what? what did i ever steal? oh, my dear. you stole my heart.

Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: "Helena."

[dailydccomics]

Catwoman by Adam Hughes

[the-best-of-waynes]

helena wayne

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[nfcomics]

CATWOMAN 80th ANNIVERSARY • cover art • Jeehyung Lee [June 2020]

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[ufonaut]

Damn... I could really use a cigarette right now.

Slam Bradley in Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular (2020) #1

(Ed Brubaker, Cameron Stewart)

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From Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 (2020) artist:Kelly Jones. 

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[my-turn-with-the-batdad]

Does anyone else remember this happening in that short Comic "Helena” for the Catwoman 80th Anniversary? Both Bruce and Selina were appropriately horrified. It's so unexpectedly wholesome, I'm not usually that fond of Tom Kings writing, but this was gold.

The fucking batbucket

Bruce no— 😭😭😭

[kindlingkeen]

I'm curious, what is your favorite (hero/anti hero/vigilant/villain/civilian/no one knows) Jason design? (Helmet, hood, that one that looks like a pill, werebeast, ninja: bucket edition, ninja: league of assassins edition, father, Robin, etc)

If there's not one that's your favorite, do you have a top 5 of our favorite Eevee?

Oooo, nice ask, anon. I love a good prompt that lets me use visual aids, A++.

This is a topic I have strong feelings on, both from an aesthetic preference standpoint and a practicality of armor and weapons perspective, so this might stray a little into hot topic territory...

To start with, I’m actually pretty partial to the original look. You know, this guy:

Give me a smooth featureless helmet, a biker jacket, and some tactical jeggings any day. It’s classic.

That said, my favorite look is probably actually from RHatO. I think the design it’s pretty similar between the New 52 and Rebirth, but the art is better in Rebirth.

Source: Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) Vol 1

I love the thigh holsters and the greaves. My major beef with this look is the three-quarter sleeves and the bared forearms. Like, come on, Jason is mainly a close-quarters combat fighter who favors knives. There is no power on earth that could convince me that he shouldn’t be rocking a sick pair of vambraces.

Task Force Z isn’t ... terrible. I loath the crowbars as a weapon of choice (🤮👎). But I like the streamlined, hyper-jointed, plate-armor look that realistically provides protection for melee fighting while still letting him flip around. Not really a fan of the hood look here though (are we just blatantly ripping off Iron Man now?).

Source: Task Force Z #8

I detest, likely deeply and passionately detest, the muzzle and cropped hoodie vest get-up. And, omg, the red ribbons on his arms, don’t even get me started. Like what the fuck even is that? It’s ridiculous. My problem with this look is partially that the aesthetics and impracticality don’t appeal to me, but also that it’s so over the top it makes Jason feel like a caricature of himself.

Source: Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War #1 (2023)

Possibly the only thing worse than the muzzle/ribbons get-up is the pill head Jason design. It’s just so godawful I’m not going to feature it here.

I’m honestly not even sure what to say about this one. The boots are fine, I guess. 🤦‍♀️

Source: Batman 148 (2024)

When it comes to Robin, I don’t have a particular favorite. I adore cute as button Jaybin in his little collared yellow cape (although I wish the artists would give him some kneepads at least).

Source: Robin 80th Anniversary

But I also equally like a more armored, badass Robin look for Jason.

Source: RHatO Rebirth Vol 1 (2016)

I think that about covers it, anon. Thanks for the fun ask! 💙

[alphacomicsvol2]

Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100 Page Super Spectacular #1 Cover Art (1940's Adam Hughes Variant)

[mydarlingbat]

Catwoman 80th anniversary.

[travischarestcomics]

Batman #82 variant cover (with alt colors) (2020)

Catwoman 80th Anniversary #1 variant cover (with unused sketch) (2020)

Justice League #50 variant cover (2020)

Batman/Superman #15 variant cover (2020)

By Travis Charest

[omniversecomicsguide]

Creator Spotlight on Tula Lotay! We’re REALLY looking forward to her DSTLRY Media series “Somna” with Becky Cloonan!

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• 2000AD print (2019)

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• Power Girl Special #1 (2023)

• Red Sonja #17 (2018)

• Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Spectacular #1 (2020) pin-up

[nfcomics]

CATWOMAN 80th ANNIVERSARY • cover art • Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau [June 2020]

[zahri-melitor]

Okay a loose Recent Reads roundup:

Birds of Prey: Sirens of Justice: so I was lured (tricked) into reading this as Gail Simone wrote one of the stories, even though it, sigh, contains far too much Harley Quinn due to movie synergy. The Dinah and Helena banter is decent, but otherwise this felt...aggressively fine. The Helena story is very pat in terms of how people tend to write Huntress shorts, though I guess it wasn't 'Helena worries about a student' this time.

The Question: The Deaths of Vic Sage: very much in conversation with O'Neil's run, of course, and also clearly reacting to contemporaneous US racial discussions. Shifting Myra to be the Mayor's sister not wife definitely alters her position in the narrative, particularly in terms of her obligations and response to situations. It is incredibly bleak in places, but that simply reflects the run it is based on and is a tribute to.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: This is definitely for the Silver Age fan. Matt Fraction manages to string together solving a complex assassination plot over 12 issues by telling the story in short, 2-4 page sections that wildly jump around the timeline and are framed by 'the many ridiculous things that have happened to Jimmy Olsen'. I have absolutely no handle on the canonicity of some of this, particularly the extended Olsen family, and not knowing probably makes this read more easily. Looking at it as a whole, I'm impressed how well Fraction stitched what was effectively episodic 2 page fills into a complete narrative. The energy of the story is relentless. Best read in small doses.

Batman: Pennyworth R.I.P: god this comic could have been so much better than it was. It’s fine and accomplishes exactly what it was intended to do - tell a story of how Alfred influenced and looked out for each of Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian and Barbara - and sets everyone up to be mildly pissed at Bruce. But just for one example, it would have been HUGELY more powerful if they’d been able to use Dick, with his memories just restored, facing the fact he wasn’t there when Alfred needed him and his last interactions were so impersonal and spent pushing Alfred away.

Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: again, underwhelming. Tom King played shipper and wrote his version of how the Helena Wayne story should work; the Dixon story felt 90s appropriate but the art was dire; Brubaker’s felt like a missing scene to his run; Dini’s honestly wasn’t up to the standard I’d hope for from Dini. The art pieces were great though; a lot of good commissions.

Robin 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular: I cannot work out who chose the covers used in the issue, which swing between 'iconic' and 'reminding everyone ASBAR exists was unnecessary, DC'.

Generally: they did manage to round up fairly iconic lineups for most of the stories, with some chopping and changing for a few.

Wolfman got another run at trying to frame the 'Dick quits v Bruce fires him' debate; Dixon and Grayson both submitted literal fills (Dixon's is a scene immediately after Nightwing #19 1996 and before #20; Grayson's is at least just an extra story that fits into #1-12 of her Titans 1999 run on a day all the second stringers didn't come to work). I don't actually have a problem with any of these - they're nice additional material, but mostly more of the same. Seeley & King's suffers from the usual Seeley problem for me where it would be vastly improved by having a different focus; but it does feel straight out of his Grayson run, with everything that implies (down to the St Hadrian's student I wish was not present). All of the Dick stories are basically "we got the team back together" creative line ups.

Jason, in contrast, makes it really obvious that nobody can define a definitive Jason run, and so gets the tiniest story with Winick and Dustin Nguyen. I checked, and Nguyen did draw part of UTRH, but I wouldn't have associated him as a character-defining artist for Jason. The story's cute. Winick sidestepped having to commit to anything about his opinions on post-Flashpoint Jason direction.

Tim got Adam Beechen (which honestly makes me happy, I don't care about anyone else's opinion) and luxuriates in Tim having to play civilian; Tynion gets a Rebirth story that I can't quite work out his timing on (it's supposed to be a prequel, but Dick is already back in costume as Nightwing and talking to Tim, suggesting that several issues of the Rebirth Nightwing take place significantly before 'Tec #934) that is a classic 'Tim tells everyone how he feels about his brothers' story. I realise everyone boring has complained about Tim calling Damian a 'horrible gremlin' but the thing is you see I can only read nicknames like that as full of affection. The back and forth is an important part of their relationship, as shown by Damian snapping 'you're only listening to the insults'.

Steph gets her 71 days as Robin slightly padded out and Amy Wolfram manages to pick up Willingham's tone pretty well; I suspect she liaised with Damion Scott quite a bit on this piece.

Damian has a Super Sons piece from Tomasi, because it's the most lighthearted option available and it sells very well (it's sickly sweet). Which was probably the right call as the other piece is clearly written by Robbie Thompson to accompany his Teen Titans run and for the downward spiral going on there. Which is honestly a bit of a pity for Damian, given everyone else got feature pieces from favourite runs, and he got the 'this slots into your current story' piece.

[my-hobby-is-finding-the-source]

js. any of these. obviously the first three are from dc comics but i have No clue which. the last one i have genuinely no idea

Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular (August, 2020)

Green Lantern Vol 4 #15 (December, 2006)

Dark Knights of Steel: Tales from the Three Kingdoms (November, 2022)

and Marble Hornets Issue Three: You Are Broken