However, while other Catwoman tales have shown Selina growing up on the streets along, Under the Moon gives her a family…of sorts. While Lauren Myracle and Isaac Goodhart’s Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale offers a new, Young Adult-skewing take on Catwoman’s origin, Myracle maintains Selina’s abusive upbringing. In all of her origins, she comes from a broken, troubled home. It’s often forgotten, but Selina is another character who shares this same narrative. This same trend was repeated with Jason Todd and Tim Drake, the next two Robins who emerged over Batman’s 80 years of history, along with more recent characters like Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown and Duke Thomas. When Dick Grayson in turn lost his parents during a similar tragedy, Bruce brought him into the unconventional Wayne family and made him Robin.

Bruce Wayne lost his parents at an early age and found Alfred. The Bat-Family truly earns its name as one of the running themes in Batman’s comic book pantheon is that of family, particularly found families. The Bat-Family has dominated the pages of DC’s comic books for as long as the company has existed-since before the company was even called “DC Comics” for the very title Batman and Catwoman were introduced in, Detective Comics-so it makes sense Selina Kyle would enjoy a high profile. DC Ink’s second book Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale stars, arguably, one of the most iconic DC characters from one of the most iconic families.

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