Catwoman and Batman actually had a baby girl in a new DC comic

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Back in February, when the world was various, Batman scribe Tom King tweeted a tease of an upcoming story: a wordless image of Batman and an extremely pregnant Catwoman accepting on top of a gargoyle, like the world’s most leather-clad maternityannouncement

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Speculation took off: Was this a dream series? Something real? Was it from his upcoming Batman/Catwoman series, set in real DC Comics canon? The story turned out to be an eight-page feature called “Helena,” in today’s Catwoman 80 th Anniversary 100- Page Super Amazing.

“Helena” takes place in an alternate timeline featured in King’s comprehensive run on Batman, in which Batman and Catwoman wed, end up being a crime-fighting team, and live to age and die of absolutely ordinary things like cancer. In the middle of all that, the 2 superheroes have a superbaby, and King and Mikel Janín’s story shows what that waslike

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What else is occurring in the pages of our favorite comics? We’ll tell you. Invite to Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading suggestions, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. There may not suffice context. Read this if you missed out on the last one.

Catwoman 80 th Anniversary 100- Page Super Amazing

A baby in a Batman onesie cries, and Catwoman gets up to tend to it. “You couldn’t do this on your father’s night?” she mutters, “Just because he’s in another dimension fighting deliriums with the spectre, you have to be up every two minutes?” in Catwoman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular, DC Comics (2020).

Image: Tom King, Mikel Janín/DC Comics.

The anniversary anthology special is full of various Catwoman stories based in all periods– from the pro-conservation burglar/activist, to a gem thief in the design of the 1960 s Batman TELEVISION series, right up to tributes to Frank Miller’s former dominatrix, and Ed Brubaker/Cameron Stewart’s street- level break-in master.

King and Janín put on the love angle, nevertheless, revealing a Selina whose bat-husband supports her through her worries that having a baby will end her days of being an independent spirit– an outside feline, if you will. The story ends with Selina informing her grownup daughter that she understood it would all be great when she understood Helena had taken after her mother in one significantway “You stole my heart,” Selinasays Cue the awwwwwws.

“What are you doing Joe,” Nancy Drew says, crossing her arms. “You’re gonna ruin everything.” in Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Death of Nancy Drew #1, Dynamite Comics (2020).

Image: Anthony Del Col, Joe Eisma/Dynamite Comics.

Death of Nancy Drew was announced to some debate, as you typically do not kick off a character’s 90 th anniversary by killing them. Now that the first issue is out and the inescapable twist has been provided, was it worth it?

Far Sector # 6

Green Lantern Sojourner Ro interrogates an alien politician about his decision to allow police to use force on civilians. He has already decided to step down. “Do human leaders wait for public censure before acknowledging their wrongs?” he says, “How weak of them,” in Far Sector #6, DC Comics (2020).

Image: N.K. Jemisin, Jamal Campbell.

If you’re looking for a comic that battles with authorities cruelty on serene protestors, the tradition of war and manifest destiny, and questions the concept of Green Lanterns as “space cops” all in one– and is magnificently composed and amazingly drawn by a couple of just hugely skilled black creators– you may want to give Far Sector alook

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We Served the People: My Mother’s Stories

Emei Burell asks her mother why she couldn’t go to college. “Because the government had introduced an age limit for students that very year,” she answers, sipping tea, “You had to be under 27 years old to be eligible to go to university,” in We Served the People, Boom Studios (2020).

Image: Emei Burell/Boom Studios.

One of our summer season comics to view out for, We Served the People is Emei Burell’s bio of her mother’s youth during the Great Leap Forward– when, to name a few things, the Chinese government required a generation of metropolitan teens out of school to work rural farms.

Teenager Titans Go!: Booyah!

Robin spouts off about how he was trained to instill fear by the master, Batman, as he sneaks up behind Starfire, giggling. “I don’t think Batman giggles,” says Cyborg, in Teen Titans Go!: Booyah! #1, DC Comics (2020).

Image: Sholly Fisch, Marcelo DiChiara/DC Comics.

There are likely some parents out there interested in this news: Teenager Titans Go!: Booyah! is a new series from DC Comics, for any young fans you know, and it comes out weekly.

Batman: The Experiences Continue # 5

Batman, Batgirl, and Alfred discuss the mysterious and skilled person who’s been tailing them for days. “Perhaps he can fly,” Alfred suggests dryly, “They do it all the time in Metropolis,” in Batman: The Adventures Continue #5, DC Comics (2020).

Image: Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Ty Templeton/DC Comics.

Batman: The Adventures Continue has actually been slooooooowly rolling out its version of Jason Todd, to fit with the canon of Batman: The Animated Series, and the plot is lastly beginning to thicken.

Action Comics #1022

Ma and Pat Kent suddenly remember their grandson from another timeline, Conner Kent, as soon as they see him, in Action Comics #1022, DC Comics (2020).

Image: Brian Michael Bendis, John Romita Jr./DC Comics.

Today’s Action Comics held what might possibly be some big ramifications for the structural foundations of the DC Multiverse. Superheroes were throwing around the word “reboot” and not in a 4th-wall breakingway The best cosmic superhero stories do not forget to consist of the little minutes, like this heartbreaking scene of Ma and Pa Kent recognizing that they in some way remember their embraced grand son from another timeline, Conner Kent, and they have actually missed him so much.

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