This might have been different if it was prose-although it would still come across as a bit too much-but when you translate these scenes into panels where the medium is mostly visual, it’s a lot. There are roughly 63 pages dedicated to Selina’s home life, and the constant barrage of the different ways in which Dernell is horrible felt excessive. This is the second DC Ink title to go with a single colour scheme, and like the Mera book, it doesn’t work. I didn’t enjoy reading this story, and a lot of it came down to the depiction of abuse and the book’s colouring choice. She meets a street kid named Ojo who teaches her the art of parkour and the two of them join the rest of Ojo’s found family, Yang and Briar Rose, to pull off a big heist. A terrible pet-related incident causes Selina to run away from home and live on the streets as Catgirl. Dernell has been the one boyfriend to outlast the others and is crueler than the rest. This version of Selina Kyle is used to her mother’s revolving door of terrible boyfriends until Dernell. Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale is the second title to come out of DC Ink, and it follows a fifteen year old Catwoman, Selina Kyle, before she dons the famous catsuit. This ongoing series on WWAC, DC Youth, will follow these fledgling imprints and see how they do with reaching a new group of comic book readers. It’s been almost three years since that roundtable, and DC Comics is publishing graphic novels under their new middle grade and young adult imprints: DC Zoom and DC Ink. The purpose of this exercise was to prove that DC Comics could reach a larger audience by making their comics more accessible. We discussed their limited experience with comics, if the series was great for newbies, and if they would go on to read more comics. In March 2015, I hosted a Gotham Academy roundtable featuring five book bloggers.

Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale Deron Bennett (letterer), Isaac Goodhart (artist), Jeremy Lawson (colourist) and Lauren Myracle (writer)Ĭontent Warning for mention and depiction of child abuse.

A catwoman tale