Cat-Tales by Chris Dee: The Real Bruce and Selina behind the comic book fiction

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#B164FF" vlink="#B164FF" alink="#B164FF" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <p> <img border="0" src="images/bruce-and-selina-opening-july-20-2012.jpg" width="630" height="100" alt="bruce and selina"></p> <h1>Bruce and Selina</h1> <p>This is an excellent series that comes out swinging against the mishanding of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle, as well as Batman and Catwoman. <br> The most recent chapters have made me realize how much more Selina has to offer than Noir dramatics. Noir stylization is so recognized and pervasive that we tend to forget that both Bruce and Selina, Batman and Catwoman, were created and canon long before the postwar funk that created film noir. Dee's Bruce and Selina are a lot more like the highly stylized screwball comedy of the thirties: when women were strong, men were smitten, and love was wackier than the Joker ever thought of being! </p> <p>The Batman mythos was held hostage by Frank Miller's refusal to take superheroics at the same value as noir as genre.  But even in the heyday of noir, some charisma- powered females were able to subvert the complexes of good girl/bad girl and Chris is doing a great job of rendering a character that is never cuddly or docile in order to be likeable. Selina's a cat. so take it at that!</p> <p><a href="files/CT_Main.htm">Cat-Tales</a> by <a rel="author" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/106540262932566550968">Chris Dee</a> tells the story of <a href="ct/50-00000-001-00.htm">the real Bruce Wayne</a>, <a href="thetales/selina_kyle_origin.htm">the real Selina Kyle</a>, the real Gotham City, the real Human beings of their universe.  </p> <p>The Dark Knight Rises opened July 20, 2012, and while we all hoped it would set the record straight and give us the real Bruce Wayne, the real Selina Kyle, the hero we deserve in every sense, it only brought more fiction.  A Bruce who had no commitment to his mission, who was Batman for a few years at most and gave it up, and a Selina whose anger, bitterness and insulting lower class origins missed the point of all the character should be.  At least Chris Dee's Cat-Tales remains to set the record straight giving us a Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle worthy of each other and worthy of being called Batman and Catwoman.</p> <p align="center"><a href="thetales/the-definitive-catwoman-origin.htm">The Definitive Catwoman</a></p> <p align="center"><a href="ct/39-polishingsilver-00.htm">The Journal of Alfred Pennyworth</a></p> <table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="files/CT_Main.htm">Cat-Tales</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="files/spinoffs.htm">Spinoffs</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="http://fanart.catwoman-cattales.com/">Catwoman Art Gallery</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"> </td> <td align="center" width="14%"> </td> <td align="center" width="14%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="about.htm">About</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="contact.htm">Contact Us</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="privacy.htm">Privacy Policy</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="disclaimer.htm">Disclaimer</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="sitemap.htm">Sitemap</a></font></td> <td align="center" width="14%"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> <a href="files/help1.htm">Help</a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p align="left"> </p> <p> </p> </body>