Luke, like Selina, has brains and looks, but he comes from a family with money (yet cares about the downtrodden: strong yet tender!) He also has PTSD from his Marine days, a condition which acts like Clark Kent’s glasses – i.e., if Superman ever put them on, wouldn’t everyone know he was also Clark? Similarly, Luke can’t control his panic attacks either as Luke or Batwing.

The first thing Selina/Holly does is catch the eye of her neighbor – none other than Luke Fox – on the penthouse level of her swanky high-rise building. Two years later, she returns to Gotham City disguised as blonde socialite Holly Vanderhees, intending to help “take the city back” from the rich and corrupt. Selina then leaves Gotham City for an extensive training program with the League. Once in police custody, she is recruited by the League of Assassins, a group of fictional villains appearing in the DC Comic books who are enemies of Batman and who somehow have an “in” with the local bad cops. Selina, thanks to her past in gymnastics, excelled in agility, flexibility, and speed.Īs the story begins, Selina is still undefeated, but gets arrested by dirty cops. Selina then turned to participating in fights set up by a mob boss who made a profit over the bets. Maas’s Selina, 17 when we first meet her, began her life of robbery to get funds to take care of Maggie (their druggie mother abandoned them), but that didn’t come close to covering medical costs. Her criminal tendencies are checked by several factors: (1) her “heart of gold” – she does everything in service of taking care of her little sister Maggie, who has severe cystic fibrosis (2) she knows how harmful poverty is to those caught in its net and so takes a “Robin Hood” approach to stealing, restricting her victims to the rich and finally, (3) she doesn’t want to disappoint Batwing, who is a Good Guy.Īs Maas constructs Catwoman’s origin story, she is not, as in the comics series, a former stewardess who had lost her memory after a plane crash, and then needed to steal jewels in order to survive. Selina is beautiful, sensuous, smart, and calculating.

Lucius Fox, is a young African-American crime-fighting associate of Batman’s. Instead, Catwoman establishes a relationship with Bat wing. In this book, Bat man is not Catwoman’s love interest he is an older guy already and not really in the picture. Gradually she morphed into Batman’s partner.

In the comics world, Catwoman, whose real name is Selina Kyle, was originally portrayed as a supervillain and adversary of Batman. This is my second one (I previously read and reviewed Wonder Woman), and I have enjoyed both of them in spite of not currently being a fan of comic books. Catwoman is part of the “DC Icons Series” featuring novels centered around the teenage versions of Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, and Catwoman.

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