Kim Kardashian To Be Next Catwoman?

Sources indicate that pseudo-celebrity Kim Kardashian might be signed on for "Batman 3." Here is our artist's interpretation of how Kardiashian might look like as Catwoman:

Oh right, we're full of crap...but a Twitter Trending topic!

Megan Fox As Next Catwoman?

...and The Sun is there! Complete with crappy sub-fangeek Photoshop.

Unfortunately, these are the sorts of ill-conceived, banal things that have more likelihood of being true than things that are truly awesome.

Rachel Weisz To Play Catwoman?

I sure hope so.

If I was forced to look at Angelina Jolie's pouty mug for the next two years because she was playing that character in Batman III, I'd freaking...gak!

Jolie playing Catwoman is *such* a Joel Schumacher move.

And God, please don't double-up on villains either. When you double-up and triple-up on villains in a movie, you get this:


Not that there's anything wrong with that. Hell, I love exploding sharks.

"Catwoman's Heart" (SPOILERS!!!)

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From Detective Comics #848:
I can only hope the resolution to this storyline is as good as this:



And yes, I have a bunch of issues with Selina having her heart cut out, but I don't have the HEART (chortle!) to go down that road right this second.

Cher to Play Catwoman in New Batman Movie?

Is Cher on tap to play Catwoman in the latest Batman movie? The Telegraph says oui:

A studio executive said: "Cher is Nolan's first choice to play Catwoman. He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years.

"The new Catwoman will be the absolute opposite of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry's purring creations."

I'm taking this with a big grain of salt, but given the trajectory of the films so far, such a storyline featuring an aging Catwoman is not completely out of the real of possibility.

Cue the fan posters and the Photoshop.

How To Draw Covers For Superheroine Books 101

Cover for Batman Confidential #19

Rule One: If two women are fighting, be sure to make it an adorable catfight with torn costumes and some skin showing.

Rule Two: Bonus points if Catwoman appears in your catfight.

Catwoman's Last Life?

Is #81 the last issue for Catwoman?

The solicits for the issue on Newsarama indicate so.

Why end the book so abruptly?

Does Final Crisis have anything to do with it?

The OS Hot Ten For 1/31/08

10. Catwoman Lip-Ripping Cat-Fight Cover


9. Batman: Rest In Peace?


8. Marjorie Satrapi


7. Spider-Bitch
6. Joe Quesada on Colbert Report



5. LEAVE TIGRA ALONE!!!!!!


4. Transformers Anniversary Ad: "They Were Always Real To Me"


3. Return Of Ambush Bug

(If only Ambush Bug had his own series on the Cartoon Network! *sigh*)

2. Y: The Last Issue / Season Four of "Lost"

(Picture of Matthew Fox barely trumps picture of the awesome Brian K. Vaughan)

1. The Return of Captain America



There it is, the Hot List
Let the debating begin...

Catwoman #78 Cover Idea Meeting

Editor: Okay, Adam, so here is the basic idea: Catwoman is going up against the Cheetah.

Adam: "Cat-fight."

Editor: Totally.

Adam: I'm on it.

Occasional Links: The "Buy Catwoman" Edition

"Paris Hilton is our country's chupacabra."
--Don't ask.


One More Post"...hey---how ‘bout those mechanical web shooters!?"
-- Brandon Thomas defends "One More Day" in his Newsarama column

"Is Norman Osborn’s sex face still in continuity?"
-- Tom Spurgeon commenting at Blog@Newsarama

"Yeah, she can't defend herself physically when some idiot with extra metal arms decides to kidnap her and walk up the side of a building. But you give her a creepy boss making inappropriate suggestions, and she'll destroy him."
-- Jesse on Mary Jane's own special super-powers

"...Peter is having wheatcakes shoved down his throat by Aunt May..."
-- Inspiring imagery courtesy of Sally P

"The truth of the matter is that if the fans truly want a married Peter and MJ with kids, then we have an incredible book called “Spider-Girl.” If this is truly what fandom wants, to see Peter go through the natural progressions of life, then I expect orders on “Spider-Girl” to go through the roof in the next month."
-- Joe Quesada



"Amazons Attack" Wins Poll


The blog Neither Doormat or Prostitute gives the results of its Worst Gender Related Incident of 2007:

Amazons Attack 35%
Batgirl's Entire Personality Change 12%
BC/GA Wedding 12%
Starfire's treatment in Countdown to Adventure 12%
Black Canary Wedding Planner 6%
MJ Statue of Evil 6 %
Donna's weakness in Countdown 3%
Wonder Woman relaunch 6%
Cassie continuing to play Juliet to Kon 3%

Surprisingly, the Power Girl Boobs Of Doom cover was not listed. Was that even in 2007? I lose track.







Because You Demanded It

Yes, the rumors are true...

Val Kilmer is releasing an album.


Yes.

Check out Val Kilmer's Music Myspace!




Chuck Norris Sues "Truth About Chuck Norris" Author

"The suit, filed in the Manhattan Federal Court, asks a judge to impound and destroy copies of the book and recall those already sold. Norris says Spector and publisher Penguin Group have hurt his reputation."

I purchased the book "The Truth About Chuck Norris" for my brother for Christmas, and found it hilarious. I was also fairly certain that Norris -- who, as far as I know, is a fairly serious Christian -- was going to eventually sue the author for lines like:

"Chuck Norris can impregnate women with only a glance. He can also do this to men.”

Of course, the paradox is that it is exactly books (and the original website that inspired it) like "Truth About Chuck Norris" that has relaunched Norris as a hot pop-culture icon.

Also, his action fugure goes for like $40 on eBay. Which is really good. Trust me.



Video: Spidey Gets Married...guest-starring Stan Lee!

Occasional Links: The Mr. Rogers Lovefest Edition

Heidi Meeley points out in her blog the discrepancies between the original solicited Catwoman #74 cover...
and the final one:
At the risk of falling into a pit of my own hard-won cynicism and cold-blooded marketing analysis so soon after the holidays, I will temporarily keep my mouth shut and invoke the following:



It's never really good when they can Google "Your Name + Hitler" and come up with several pages worth of hits.
I don't feel that Will Smith meant to say that the Nazi dictator was Awesome with an A, but when you're doing a press junket for a so-so I Am Legend remake during Christmas time, there's no need to get into strained metaphors utilizing genocidal maniacs. I don't want a history lesson from Smith, Brad Pitt, or even Sean Penn. Well, maybe one from Ellen DeGeneres, because she's so damn pleasant.



Did you know that Cathy Lee Crosby of That's Incredible fame was the original TV Wonder Woman? I was trying to forget this, personally.


Over at Digital Femme, Cheryl points out that Misty Knight has lost her trademark Afro:

I liked the fact that Misty was a character who was secure enough and loved herself enough that she wasn't going to dump a vat of caustic lye on her head or risk scarring herself with hot metal in order to look acceptable.

This reminds me of when I was twelve and sitting next to an African-American girl at the beauty parlor. She was having her hair straightened, and I was having a perm. Why can't females be loved for who they truly are, dammit?! See, now I'm going to be cranky all day.

Incidentally, when I saw the title of another Cheryl post, "Yo, OS Heads!", I really didn't click the link thinking it was about me.

Really. I'm not that egotistical.

Really.




Fast on the heels of the "Fatgate" controversy, Jennifer Love Hewitt feeds the homeless in a heavily-covered media event. Is this her (or her publicist's) way of symbolically saying, "I don't stuff my face, I stuff the face of others?"

UH-OH!!!! MY CYNICISM IS COMING BACK! QUICK:



Kids, if you don't like the way your current comic books are written, remember:


See, here is where I think DC marketing is brilliant. By currently producing some lackluster titles now, consumers are forced to turn to where the money *really* is -- in the backlist. Monthly copies at your comic shop are mere pennies to a big corporation, whereas Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Amazon.com net the big cash -- and with mainstream audiences, too.

Of course, in several years when the amount of trade-paperback worthy new material dwindles, there may be a little gap in quality backlist. But there will still be plenty of readers who haven't been introduced to Watchmen, Kingdom Come, and Batman tales from the 1940s.

And let's face it, all the mainstream companies are putting out expensive collected editions of stuff whether the sales or quality warrants it or not. It's standard now to, in many cases, plan the collected edition at the same time the original is being produced. If it has a gorgeous cover, beautiful binding, and shrinkwrap it MUST be worth that $25 or $30 or $50, right?

And where will DC's next ground-breaking works of art like Watchmen, Dark Knight, Kingdom Come, Batman Year One, Starman, or V for Vendetta come from? And does it really matter?


And now: THE KINKS!

Catwoman Cosplay Video

You're either going to find this strangely exciting or as boring as hell. Either way, you've got to admit she's got some really skillful moves.

Dream Academy's "Life In A Northern Town" playing in the background is a nice touch.

Babies In Refrigerators

...Selina's baby is headed for all sorts of messed up:

According to LITG

The current arc "Mother's Day" will see something very unfortunate happen to her daughter, Helena, which will tip Selina back over to the dark side. It's time for Catwoman to be a bad girl again. How small do they make refrigerators?

If you can't make a decent Wonder Woman movie you should quit the movie-making business

This is in response to the continuing "WB no like the wimmins" movie clusterf**k, and word that a "Wonder Woman" solo movie most likely will never happen.

Really, if as a producer you f**k up cool concepts like "Catwoman" and "Wonder Woman" and can't make a decent film out of them, you are a moron.

Yes, "Catwoman" the movie failed.

Why did it fail? Because women leads make bad action films?

No, because the producers didn't trust the original source material and decided to rewrite the character from scratch.

Even inside DC at the time we were baffled why the WB felt the need to completely change this character -- her name, her origin, her powers, everything.

If anything, the WB seemed more concerned with making the licensing "bible" for the character than creating a memorable film character. I remember walking into a conference room at the end of a marketing meeting and there were swatches of fabrics and wrapping paper and all this "Catwoman" licensing design stuff everywhere. And it was all foo-foo, all precious Barbie-level purple-and-pink pussycats and diamonds and s**t.

You know those T-shirts that play to the Paris Hilton wannabe crowd and have sayings like "hot materialist sexy bitch" on it with a graphic of a pampered chihuahua on it in a bubble bath? That's the level of design and sentiment we're talking about here. That's what the WB apparently got out of "Catwoman" the concept.

Well, no wonder the movie bombed! And it had Sharon Stone as the villain! WTF???

Fan-movies have been done better than that damn film!

And so what now, since "Catwoman" was screwed up it sets the precedent for no superheroine movies?

We're talking about @&$%& WONDER WOMAN!!!!!

Even that corny-ass TV show in the 70s made lots of money.

Meanwhile, we have a character like "Alice" from "Resident Evil" starring in three moderately-successful action films. And Alice is a cypher compared to Wonder Woman.

Why does Sony "get it" and the WB doesn't?

Obligatory: (pay attention to where Halle "thanks" Warner Brothers)