#catwoman 80th anniversary 100-page super spectacular

[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)

[bad-comic-art]

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

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[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."

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

[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

[talkinpunchline]

Punchline Reading List!

Wanna read the full history of the queen of crime? Here’s an up-to-date list of all of Punchline’s appearances! Main canon apperances- Batman (2016) #89 Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen #3 The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 Batman (2016) #92-94 Batman: Secret Files #3 Nightwing #72 & 73 Batman (2016) #95 Batman (2016) #97 Red Hood: Outlaw #48 Batman (2016) #98 Nightwing (2016) #74 Batman (2016) #99 Batman: The Joker War Zone #1 Batman (2016) #100 Batman (2016) #106 Punchline #1 Batman: Secret Files: Clownhunter #1 The Joker (2021) #1-15 Dark Crisis #3, #4. #6 Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #3 Punchline: The Gotham Game #1-2 Catwoman (2018) #49-50 Punchline: The Gotham Game #3-6 Catwoman (2018) #54

Dubious canon- The Joker Presents: A Puzzlebox #2 #13 #14

Alternate universe appearances- Future State: Gotham #3-5 #9 & #11 DC vs Vampires #10 Batman (2016) #132 #135

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Punchline’s Comic Appearances Masterlist!

❈ - cover only

✧ - variant cover only

✢ - minor appearance

- Batman (2016)

Issues: #89, #92-95, #96 (✢), #97-100, #101 (✢), #106 (✢), #146

- Batman Secret Files (2018)

Issue: #3

- Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter

- Batman: Fear State: Omega

Issue: #1 (✢)

- Batman: The Joker War Zone

Issue: #1 (✢)

- Catwoman (2018)

Issues: #49 (❈), #50, #54

- Dark Crisis (2022)

Issue: #3 (✢)

- Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths

Issue: #4 (✢), #6 (✢)

- DC’s Harley Quinn Romances

Issue: #1 (✢)

- Detective Comics (Vol. 1)

Issue: #1039 (✢)

- Gotham City Sirens (2024)

Issues: #1-4

- Green Lantern (2023)

Issue: #3 (✢)

- Harley Quinn (2016)

Issue: #75

- Harley Quinn (2021)

Issue: #1 (✢)

- Harley Quinn Uncovered

Issue: #1 (❈)

- I Am Batman (2021)

Issue: #16 (✢)

- Infinite Frontier (2021)

Issue: #0 (✢)

- The Joker (2021)

Issues: #1 (✢), #2-15

- The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular

Issue: #1

- The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing (2022)

Issue: #3, #6 (✢)

- The Joker: Uncovered

- Knight Terrors: Punchline (2023)

- Lazarus Plane: Omega (2023)

Issue: #1 (❈)

- Nightwing (2016)

Issues: #72-74

- Punchline (2021)

- Punchline: The Gotham Game (2022)

- Red Hood: Outlaw (2018)

Issue: #48

- Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen (2020)

Issue: #3

this masterlist was HEAVILY inspired by harleyquinnstation

[ericrobertnolan]

Cover to "Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular," Joëlle Jones & Laura Allred, 2020

Cover to “Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular,” Joëlle Jones & Laura Allred, 2020

DC Comics.

[browsethestacks]

Art Process: Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #01 (2020)

Art by Jim Lee Color by Alex Sinclair

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular by Ed Brubaker, Paul Dini, Ann Nocenti, Emanuela Lupacchino, Cameron Stewart and more. Covers by 1. Adam Hughes, 2. Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau and 3. Gabriele Dell'Otto.

[gothamstreetcat]

the cat(woman) of film and television featured in "The Art of Picking a Lock” by ed brubaker & cameron stewart

[the-imaginative-hobbyist]

Put this together recently to celebrate one cool cat’s 80th birthday...

[astronema12]

never trust a cat with a toy

[thegaminggang]

DC Comics for June 3rd, 2020

DC celebrates with the Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular as the Birds of Prey one-shot and new Shazam, and Wonder Woman hit your FLCS.

[comicbookfx]

STOMP YIIAAAAH!!! WHOMP

Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 L/A/C: Jonathan Case W: Jeff Parker