Chris Dee
As the creator and author of Cat-Tales, you all know my favorite couple is Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle and to spend a paragraph on why would be redundant and a trifle absurd. I point you to the Tales: from Normal to Identity Element, Casefile 001 to The Gotham Rogues, Cattitude to Polishing Silver to Riddle Me-Tropolis to Wayne Rises. If that doesn’t make the case for not merely ‘Bruce and Selina’ but this Bruce and Selina, then no additional words here going to sway you.
Instead I’ll offer a quote from the screenplay for 1990’s Reversal of Fortune that sums up, not simply Bruce and Selina but all fictional couples and our obsession with them: It’s easier to love someone than to live with them. Love is fantasy, living is work.
Love stories are the perfect fusion of that. The lovers have to overcome obstacles. They have to dig in and do the work, and both the challenges and the rewards are both tied up with their love for one another. And the more their love and their challenges are a natural extension of who they are as individuals, the more dynamic and engrossing the stories will be for the reader. That’s why you have couples like Bruce and Selina who are brought together over and over again, in all media, in all incarnations of the characters, over decades. Because it’s right, because the characters react on one another in a way that works. There’s nothing sillier than when you hear writers say of a pairing: “Oh that’s been done already.” You know why you eat grilled steak, fried chicken, and pizza so often? They’re really good. The flavors and textures work well together. I’ve written over 70 Cat-Tales, these characters and these pairings do not wear out.
Instead I’ll offer a quote from the screenplay for 1990’s Reversal of Fortune that sums up, not simply Bruce and Selina but all fictional couples and our obsession with them: It’s easier to love someone than to live with them. Love is fantasy, living is work.
Love stories are the perfect fusion of that. The lovers have to overcome obstacles. They have to dig in and do the work, and both the challenges and the rewards are both tied up with their love for one another. And the more their love and their challenges are a natural extension of who they are as individuals, the more dynamic and engrossing the stories will be for the reader. That’s why you have couples like Bruce and Selina who are brought together over and over again, in all media, in all incarnations of the characters, over decades. Because it’s right, because the characters react on one another in a way that works. There’s nothing sillier than when you hear writers say of a pairing: “Oh that’s been done already.” You know why you eat grilled steak, fried chicken, and pizza so often? They’re really good. The flavors and textures work well together. I’ve written over 70 Cat-Tales, these characters and these pairings do not wear out.
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