Showing posts with label Catwoman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catwoman. Show all posts

Monday, January 29, 2024

Before You Meet The Black Angel/Black Squaw Next Week...


...You Might Want to Check Out the Other Black Heroines (and Villainesses) We've Presented on This Blog...

Vixen
Including her never-published origin tale!
CatWoman
The Patience Phillips Version from the Movie Starring Halle Berry!
AdAstra
by Barry Windsor-Smith
White Raven
The Koolest Heroine You Never Heard Of!
Merciless the Sorceress
Comics' First Black Villainess!
Nubia
Originally Princess Diana's Sister, Now Queen of the Amazons!
Lady Satan
The Second Comic Character to Bear the Name and the First Black Anti-Heroine!

First Black Comic Character in Their Own Mass-Market Newspaper Comic Strip!

And, though we didn't publish the following heroines' stories here, we did link to their appearances in our "brother" RetroBlogs...
The First Black SuperHeroine!


The First Adult-Oriented Black SuperHeroine!
(Over 18 only, please)

After You Check Them Out...
...be Back Next Monday to Welcome
Black Squaw/Black Angel to this August Sisterhood!

Thursday, February 20, 2020

CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE "Jim Lee Catwoman Sketchbook"

Jim Lee, who in 2004 had just illustrated the best-selling Batman: Hush, did the cover for the Catwoman movie adaptation...
...and here's the story of how he went on-set to create it!

Wow!
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE Conclusion

...framed for the murder of cosmetics magnate George Hedare (actually committed by his wife, Laurel), Patience Phillips aka Catwoman is arrested by her lover, Detective Tom Lone (who knows her secret identity)...
To say this flick was almost universally-panned would be charitable.
To be fair, Halle Berry did her best with what she was given.
And, to her credit, she took the criticism in stride, even accepting the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress in person...

Trivia:
Until 2017's Wonder Woman, Catwoman was the highest-grossing superheroine movie of all time!
The film was going to be released in IMAX...

...but the SFX couldn't be completed in time!
Written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, this adaptation of the 2004 movie utilizes an earlier version of the script than what was filmed, so there are differences between this and what appeared on-screen!
Why did we present this particular flick as our Black History Month month entry?
1) Catwoman was the first flick to feature a Black superheroine in the title role!
Note: both BlankMan and Meteor Man predated it as Black superhero flicks.
But BlankMan didn't have a comic book adaptation, and Meteor Man had both a movie adaptation and a six-issue sequel series which set it in the Marvel Universe!
We'll be doing Meteor Man next year as a RetroBlog crossover event between Hero Histories, Secret Sanctum of Captain Video and Atomic Kommie Comics!
2) Catwoman starred Halle Berry! 'Nuff said!
Speaking of Halle...tomorrow we'll post a text feature by cover artist Jim Lee about how he was able to get her to pose, in costume, for him!
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Monday, February 17, 2020

CATWOMAN: THE MOVIE Part 2

Meek (dare we say "mousey"?) graphic artist Patience Phillips, ordered to meet a midnight deadline by her abusive boss, George Hedare, arrives and discovers the doors locked!
Gaining access through a window, she accidentally-eavesdrops on the chemists working on her company's new makeup line...which has frightening side-effects on users!
The scientists, not realizing she's an innocent employee who inadvertently-overheard them, call security officers, who pursue and shoot the panicked woman, who then falls from a height that (combined with her gunshot wound) would kill a normal person...and does!
But, her corpse is surrounded by a group of cats...who apparently restore her to life!
MEOW!
To Be Continued Tomorrow at...
Written by Chuck Austen, penciled by Tom Derenick, and inked by Adam DeKraker, this adaptation of the 2004 movie utilizes an earlier version of the script than what was filmed, so there are differences between this and what appeared on-screen!
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