# What the fudge happened to the Catwoman comic?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 25, 2004, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fudge-happened-to-the-catwoman-comic/246962 "2004-05-25T09:51:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fudge-happened-to-the-catwoman-comic/246962/21 "2004-05-26T15:51:43Z")

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> [@Evil Captor](#):
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> So, which issues were drawn by that awful, awful Jim Balent? I want to know so I can … be outraged by them. yeah, outraged.

Why not just go straight to [Jim Balent’s website](http://jimbalentstudios.com/studio.htm) for the porn stuff?

AFAIK, Jim Balent drew a four issue miniseries in the early 90’s, then the original Catwoman run that started in 1993ish, starting from issue 1 up to the relaunch a couple of years ago. I’m sure you can verify that one a Catwoman fan site somewhere.

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**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fudge-happened-to-the-catwoman-comic/246962/22 "2004-05-26T16:23:44Z")

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> [@Selkie](#):
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> Why not just go straight to [Jim Balent’s website](http://jimbalentstudios.com/studio.htm) for the porn stuff?
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> AFAIK, Jim Balent drew a four issue miniseries in the early 90’s, then the original Catwoman run that started in 1993ish, starting from issue 1 up to the relaunch a couple of years ago. I’m sure you can verify that one a Catwoman fan site somewhere.

Been there, done that. In fact, I knew Balent only as the guy who does the Witch of Tarot stuff. Didn’t know he’d done Catwoman.

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**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fudge-happened-to-the-catwoman-comic/246962/23 "2004-05-26T21:01:56Z")

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Ugh, ugh, ugh. I couldn’t agree more: lovely stylish art out, more-of-the-same ‘gritty superhero’ art in. The writing’s still great, but I don’t know how much longer I can stand the art when my heart still aches for the old stuff.

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**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fudge-happened-to-the-catwoman-comic/246962/24 "2004-05-27T19:11:05Z")

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Thanks, **Selkie** , I’ll try to check that out. I guess I fell off the bandwagon longer ago than I thought… I didn’t know they relaunched it. Might be worth a second look. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fudge-happened-to-the-catwoman-comic/246962/25 "2004-05-27T20:25:14Z")

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I read an interview with Ed Brubaker (the current writer) and in the interview he was questioned about the costume redesign. The first thing he and the interviewer both said was “smaller boobs” :).

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