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''Catwoman'' is a 2018 comic book by Creator/DCComics. The fifth volume of ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'', the post-ComicBook/DCRebirth series spins off from ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'', after the disastrous non-wedding, the series was initially written and drawn by Joëlle Jones. In it, Catwoman decides to move to Villa Hermosa and uses it as her base of operations for a short time.
After Jones left the book, writer Creator/RamV took over with issue 25, returning Selina to being the protector of Gotham's East End, specifically Alleytown, this time taking over a gang of street urchins named the Alleytown Strays and gaining an apprentice named Shoes. The book has tied-in so far to ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' and is still ongoing. V left the book following the conclusion of ''ComicBook/FearState'' in late 2021.
With V's departure, Creator/TiniHoward would take over the comic, making her debut at DC Comics after a previously exclusive tenure at Marvel. With her run officially began with Issue #39, Selina would leave Alleytown behind, and with it her goals of running and protecting her old neighborhood as its criminal queenpin. With the district now under the protection of her Strays, Selina returned to larger Gotham both to get back to basics and to follow up on illicit money trails flowing out of Alleytown (and which she'd discovered during her tenure).
Overlapping with the final year of the ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' initiative and its later successor ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC'', Selina's investigation (and usual larceny) into the dark money pits her against an alliance of the city's most powerful mobsters, her old hated enemy Black Mask, and a mysterious, alluring thief named Valmont.
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!!Storylines and events that are part of this run
[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar''
* ''ComicBook/FearState''
* ''ComicBook/TheGothamWar''
[[/index]]
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!!''Catwoman'' (2018) provides examples of:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Joëlle Jones' run]]
* TheBusCameBack: After ten years and a literal reboot, Magdalene "Maggie" Kyle returns. It turns out that Selina has been keeping her in a mental health facility in Villa Hermosa.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Raina Creel is a complete sociopath who will do anything for more wealth. After years of drug abuse and plastic surgery, she also has a face that has completely deteriorated. In public, she wears a blonde wig, facial prosthetics, blue contact lenses, and dentures.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ram V's run]]
* BackFromTheDead: It turns out that Shoes is [[spoiler:an amnesiac Lian Harper, who was previously thought deceased.]]
* TheBusCameBack: After ''thirty-two years'' (and being [[DeathIsCheap dead]]), [[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians Snowflame]] returns.
* StreetUrchin: The Alleytown Strays.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Done deliberately with Snowflame, for whom the '80s has apparently never ended. He drives a ''Delorean!''
-->'''Snowflame:''' It's been a while.
-->'''Catwoman:''' A few ''decades'', by the looks of it. Apparently they don't have calendars on this island? Or online shopping?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tini Howard's run]]
* BackFromTheDead: Onyx Adams makes her Rebirth debut after losing a hand and apparently dying in the New 52 ComicBook/GreenArrow series.
* BigBadEnsemble: The Big Four, heads of Gotham's Mafia families -- though Black Mask is the most visible and dominant of them.
* TheBusCameBack: Eiko Hasigawa returns for the first time since the conclusion of Genevieve Valentine's DC You-era run.
** Linda Friitawa/Fright and Tristessa Delicias/Scorpiana, who hadn't been seen in many years, are among Selina's cellmates introduced in issue #51.
* CanonImmigrant: Red Claw from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' makes her debut in ''Catwoman'' #43-44 as one of the assassins hired by Black Mask.
* ContinuityOverlap: Several examples through the post-''Fear State'' era and into ''Dawn of DC''.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanJoshuaWilliamson'': Howard's opening arc ''Dangerous Liaisons'' runs parallel to ''Abyss'' and ''Shadow War''. Bruce being out of the country is actually a plot point, as Black Mask argues the Big Four can safetly target Selina without fear of any reprisals from the now-absent Batman.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanChipZdarsky'': The phone call between Bruce and Selina from Zdarsky's first issue gets shown from her perspective here.
** ''ComicBook/PunchlineTheGothamGame'': ''Catwoman'' is closely intertwined with the events of Howard's ''Punchline'' mini-series (enough to the point that it's an unofficial crossover and impossible to understand ''Catwoman'' from issue #47 onward without it).
* EvolvingCredits: Howard's run officially retires the Catwoman logo that had debuted during the New 52 era in 2011 and carried over to Joelle Jones' 2018 relaunch. In its place is a new, classy updated logo.
* GentlemanThief: Valmont.
* ItsPersonal: As has been the case since the Ed Brubaker era, Selina and Roman Sionis absolutely ''hate'' one another.
* JustifiedExtraLives: The aftermath of Gotham War, which concluded with her [[NotQuiteDead seemingly dying]] in an explosion of a [[MagicMeteor meteor that turned into a new Lazarus Pit]], shows that she has a limited form of resurrection signified by a set of nine scars running down her back. When she dies and comes back a scar turns black to indicate that life is spent.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Bruce's phone call with Selina during Chip Zdarsky's ''Batman'' #125, which was shown from his perspective there, gets replayed from Selina's perspective here in ''Catwoman'' #47.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Averted with ''Catwoman'' #43-44, which prominently features Harley, but which so far has had no bearing on Howard's post-Stephanie Phillips ''Dawn of DC'' run. Really, it plays more like Howard using Harley's guest role as an audition to succeed Phillips and/or to get a handle on Harley's voice.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Again, justified during Howard's fist arc (with Bruce abroad in Joshua Williamson's ''Batman'')
[[/folder]]
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''Catwoman'' is a 2018 comic book by Creator/DCComics. The fifth volume of ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'', the post-ComicBook/DCRebirth series spins off from ''ComicBook/BatmanTomKing'', after the disastrous non-wedding, the series was initially written and drawn by Joëlle Jones. In it, Catwoman decides to move to Villa Hermosa and uses it as her base of operations for a short time.
After Jones left the book, writer Creator/RamV took over with issue 25, returning Selina to being the protector of Gotham's East End, specifically Alleytown, this time taking over a gang of street urchins named the Alleytown Strays and gaining an apprentice named Shoes. The book has tied-in so far to ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' and is still ongoing. V left the book following the conclusion of ''ComicBook/FearState'' in late 2021.
With V's departure, Creator/TiniHoward would take over the comic, making her debut at DC Comics after a previously exclusive tenure at Marvel. With her run officially began with Issue #39, Selina would leave Alleytown behind, and with it her goals of running and protecting her old neighborhood as its criminal queenpin. With the district now under the protection of her Strays, Selina returned to larger Gotham both to get back to basics and to follow up on illicit money trails flowing out of Alleytown (and which she'd discovered during her tenure).
Overlapping with the final year of the ''ComicBook/DCInfiniteFrontier'' initiative and its later successor ''ComicBook/DawnOfDC'', Selina's investigation (and usual larceny) into the dark money pits her against an alliance of the city's most powerful mobsters, her old hated enemy Black Mask, and a mysterious, alluring thief named Valmont.
----
!!Storylines and events that are part of this run
[[index]]
* ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar''
* ''ComicBook/FearState''
* ''ComicBook/TheGothamWar''
[[/index]]
----
!!''Catwoman'' (2018) provides examples of:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Joëlle Jones' run]]
* TheBusCameBack: After ten years and a literal reboot, Magdalene "Maggie" Kyle returns. It turns out that Selina has been keeping her in a mental health facility in Villa Hermosa.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: Raina Creel is a complete sociopath who will do anything for more wealth. After years of drug abuse and plastic surgery, she also has a face that has completely deteriorated. In public, she wears a blonde wig, facial prosthetics, blue contact lenses, and dentures.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ram V's run]]
* BackFromTheDead: It turns out that Shoes is [[spoiler:an amnesiac Lian Harper, who was previously thought deceased.]]
* TheBusCameBack: After ''thirty-two years'' (and being [[DeathIsCheap dead]]), [[ComicBook/TheNewGuardians Snowflame]] returns.
* StreetUrchin: The Alleytown Strays.
* TwoDecadesBehind: Done deliberately with Snowflame, for whom the '80s has apparently never ended. He drives a ''Delorean!''
-->'''Snowflame:''' It's been a while.
-->'''Catwoman:''' A few ''decades'', by the looks of it. Apparently they don't have calendars on this island? Or online shopping?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tini Howard's run]]
* BackFromTheDead: Onyx Adams makes her Rebirth debut after losing a hand and apparently dying in the New 52 ComicBook/GreenArrow series.
* BigBadEnsemble: The Big Four, heads of Gotham's Mafia families -- though Black Mask is the most visible and dominant of them.
* TheBusCameBack: Eiko Hasigawa returns for the first time since the conclusion of Genevieve Valentine's DC You-era run.
** Linda Friitawa/Fright and Tristessa Delicias/Scorpiana, who hadn't been seen in many years, are among Selina's cellmates introduced in issue #51.
* CanonImmigrant: Red Claw from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' makes her debut in ''Catwoman'' #43-44 as one of the assassins hired by Black Mask.
* ContinuityOverlap: Several examples through the post-''Fear State'' era and into ''Dawn of DC''.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanJoshuaWilliamson'': Howard's opening arc ''Dangerous Liaisons'' runs parallel to ''Abyss'' and ''Shadow War''. Bruce being out of the country is actually a plot point, as Black Mask argues the Big Four can safetly target Selina without fear of any reprisals from the now-absent Batman.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanChipZdarsky'': The phone call between Bruce and Selina from Zdarsky's first issue gets shown from her perspective here.
** ''ComicBook/PunchlineTheGothamGame'': ''Catwoman'' is closely intertwined with the events of Howard's ''Punchline'' mini-series (enough to the point that it's an unofficial crossover and impossible to understand ''Catwoman'' from issue #47 onward without it).
* EvolvingCredits: Howard's run officially retires the Catwoman logo that had debuted during the New 52 era in 2011 and carried over to Joelle Jones' 2018 relaunch. In its place is a new, classy updated logo.
* GentlemanThief: Valmont.
* ItsPersonal: As has been the case since the Ed Brubaker era, Selina and Roman Sionis absolutely ''hate'' one another.
* JustifiedExtraLives: The aftermath of Gotham War, which concluded with her [[NotQuiteDead seemingly dying]] in an explosion of a [[MagicMeteor meteor that turned into a new Lazarus Pit]], shows that she has a limited form of resurrection signified by a set of nine scars running down her back. When she dies and comes back a scar turns black to indicate that life is spent.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Bruce's phone call with Selina during Chip Zdarsky's ''Batman'' #125, which was shown from his perspective there, gets replayed from Selina's perspective here in ''Catwoman'' #47.
* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Averted with ''Catwoman'' #43-44, which prominently features Harley, but which so far has had no bearing on Howard's post-Stephanie Phillips ''Dawn of DC'' run. Really, it plays more like Howard using Harley's guest role as an audition to succeed Phillips and/or to get a handle on Harley's voice.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Again, justified during Howard's fist arc (with Bruce abroad in Joshua Williamson's ''Batman'')
[[/folder]]
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