#Lonely city

[dailydccomics]

Catwoman by Cliff Chiang

[pelorsdyke]

if you’re at all a dc person or a catwoman fan and you like older women protagonists. PLEASE read cliff chiang’s lonely city series. I cannot stress enough how good this is and how good it is to see these characters in a context outside of “they’re twenty to thirty years old and never deal with trauma”

[mydarlingbat]

Batman ; lonely city.

[arabriddler]

Lonely city giving me old man Eddie who’s also a dad… 🥺

[viaov]

Adam Gorham, Catwoman

[bookandcantina]

Catwoman: Lonely City by Cliff Chiang (covers 1-4 shown)

Ten years after Batman has died, Selina Kyle is released from prison to a new Gotham. No more capes & cowls, no supervillains, and a lot less freedom under Mayor Harvey Dent. When Kyle discovers Batman left her one final secret in the cave, she gets a crew and plans one final heist before the city falls to chaos (just like the good ol' days)

bonus: book three variant cover

I love this cover and this Ivy look so much I had to share.

(spoiler-free thoughts below...)

5/5 - Simply incredible work. A top-tier Catwoman story, up there with Selina's Big Score and the Genevieve Valentine run. The world is well thought out, the emotions of the story are well-balanced, and I especially appreciated seeing the post-criminal lives of Croc, Riddler, and Ivy. I hope Cliff Chiang gets more writing opportunities in any world, and more art opportunities in the DC world because I truly think he can do some amazing things here.

[yolodashes]

There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenising, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feeling - depression, anxiety, loneliness, rage - are simply a consequence of unsettled chemistry, a problem to be fixed, rather than a response to structural injustice or, on the other hand, to the native texture of embodiment, of doing time, as David Wojnarowicz memorably put it, in a rented body, with all the attendant grief and frustration that entails.

[susenasunka]

[theeboyracer]

Catwoman - Lonely City

[dailydccomics]

Catwoman: Lonely City cover by Marguerite Sauvage

[wrecked-minded]

[tensionesuperficiale]

[invincible-selfxmade-punk]

"How do we connect with other people? Specifically if we do not find speaking easy?

Is sex a cure for loneliness? And if it is, what happens if our body or our sexuality is considered deviant, or damaged? If we are ill, or unblessed wi beauty?"

[silentsiren]

I could forget my sorry self, becoming instead as porous and borderless as the mist, pleasurably adrift on the currents of the city.

Olivia Laing, The Lonely City. Adventures in the Art of Being Alone. Canongate, 2016.

[backspinwasheavy-blog]

[catastrophicalcat]

It's funny to me how Riddler, who supposes himself to be the world's smartest man, cannot see what's right in front of him

Catwoman: the Lonely City

Selina and Eddie catching up is everything.

Also Eddie thinks he's the favourite and is today years old when he finds out Selina and Bruce were a thing.