I'd like to point out a tragic but unfortunately relevant story surrounding what I think was probably the best book in the business for a while, a little gem in

I'd like to point out a tragic but unfortunately relevant story surrounding what I think was probably the best book in the business for a while, a little gem in the middle of a sea of junk: the 2001 Ed Brubaker and Darwyn Cooke reboot of Catwoman. Prior to Brubaker taking over, Catwoman had become a sexist, ridiculous fantasy character for teenage boys. It was meant to be titillating rather than good. Then Brubaker completely rebooted her, writing her as a defender of the little guy in what amounted to a comic book version of film noir, even bringing back Slam Bradley, the original "detective" of Detective Comics (DC). Accordingly Cooke utterly redesigned her look as toned down, realistic and smart, and tough: https://www.heroicgirls.com/looking-back-darwyn-cookes-catwoman/ https://www.heroicgirls.com/looking-back-darwyn-cookes-catwo... Brubaker's stories were first class and a full break from past, and even Cooke himself got to both author and draw an excellent one-off graphic novel called Selena's Big Score. https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Catwoman:_Selina%27s_Big_Score https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Catwoman:_Selina%27s_Big_Score For a little while -- about three years maybe -- Catwoman was like absolutely nothing else on the shelves. It was like a throwback to the 1940s, classy and dark and smart. Then Brubaker and Cooke left for other projects, and the comic almost immediately reverted to its previous boobfest. It's kind of bounced back and forth in style since then but has never recovered. Without a visionary creative team, comics just revert to the lowest common denominator.