Batman and Catwoman finally got married, with Superman and Lois Lane witnessing

In the summer of 2018, the comics world was thrown into uproar as the New York Times spoiled the twist ending of Batman and Catwoman’s wedding three days before the issue hit stands. The twist, of course, was that they didn’t get married at all: Catwoman left him at the rooftop altar. However, all was not lost. Tom King, a writer, had described his famous “strange” occurrences in the past. Batman #50 as the midpoint of his story — and in late June he and artist Clay Mann finally got Batman and Catwoman together to tie the knot in Batman/Catwoman #12.

Of course it hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing from there to here. King decided in 2019, to finish his run earlier and publish a miniseries of 12 issues. The series was delayed numerous times by the COVID-19-related Diamond Comics closure and finally hit shelves. Now we can finally see how Batman and Catwoman got married.

It was Vegas-style but the bored employee impersonated Elvis. Batman.

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“Clark, we’re doing it,” says Bruce Wayne, “If you and Lois want to ... to attend, we’d...” Clark Kent and Lois arrive in a rush of wind, dressed for a wedding, an instant later, in Batman/Catwoman #12 (2022).

Yes, according to King and Mann’s Batman/Catwoman#12, you can have your Gotham City wedding by a guy wearing Batman-style. And in a callback to one of the best issues of King’s run, also drawn by Clay Mann, Bruce asks Superman and Lois Lane to be their last minute witnesses, and the delighted couple arrives by super speed.

This is canonical. Not in the strictest sense — Batman and Catwoman are not married in Chip Zdarsky’s new BatmanRun, which has just started. But in the extensive potential future history of Batman and Catwoman’s relationship, as seen in flash forwards throughout King’s BatmanRun, that’s how Gotham City royalty tied the knot.

A middle aged man meets two younger ones outside an airport. Shocked, he says “She’s Jerry’s personal assistant. And I guess... she just found some old paperwork that says... I own the Domain,” in Public Domain #1 (2022).

Substack made a huge push in comics last year. They gave creators an enormous amount of money and allowed them to use the platform as they pleased, with no restrictions on intellectual property. Chip Zdarsky’s Public DomainThe family story of “The Intellectual Property Rights to Multi-Billion Dollar International Film Franchise” is one that was published first through the Substack newsletter.

The Executor, a hulking robotic man with a robot beard and a robot receding hairline, bobs two assailants and hoist one up by his neck in a huge robot hand. “I will execute more than just documents,” he says, in Batman #125 (2022).

Chip Zdarsky started his writing career. BatmanThis week, there was a lot of fun with Tim Drake and Failsafe. But more importantly Zdarsky and artist Belén Ortega created my new favorite DC Comics character ever, the Executor, an impervious robot lawyer who manages the wills and estates of supervillains. It is one of the greatest things that could ever happen..

A man in a black tracksuit introduces a very naked guy to a married couple. “You’re in Florida. It’s the 21st Century. You made it. These people are the Steinems. They’re your family. They’re his family.” in Sins of the Black Flamingo #1 (2022).

Andrew Wheeler and Travis Moore’s new series is about the Black Flamingo, a sexy gay international cat-burglar of magical artifacts — seen here returning a golem to the descendants of that golem’s mortal lover — who definitely doesn’t have feelings for any one or anything and will definitely be forced to deal with that. I can’t wait to read more.

“I think I want to die in Otherworld,” says the rocky mutant Wrongslide to Sunspot. “When it is my time... I’ll lie down in the flowers and give myself back to the everything. And the Five will bring back someone new,” in X-Men: Red #4 (2022).

Just when you think that the writers in the X-Men bullpen have explored all the different ways mutants interact with death now that they don’t have to stay dead, Al Ewing — with beautiful acting from his collaborators — uses Otherworld’s scrambling effect on mutant resurrection to give a way to recycle themselves if they ever tire of endless immortality.

The Clock King, in his bowler hat and clock face glasses, walks calmly away from a chaotic, bloody battlefield of Gotham City henchmen in Batman: Killing Time #5 (2022).

Reader, I’m furious. David Marquez and Tom King have been creating a comic called Batman: Killing Time For five months, I’ve been telling the story of Catwoman and Riddler as they try to escape from an ill-fated heist. It’s called “Killing Time.” It’s got a mysterious narrator who lays out every event in the comic, big or small, in specific timestamps and intervals. Yet, the unexpected twist I didn’t see coming was that the real villain is the Clock King.

I’m so mad.

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