Only problem was the ****es lol.
Selina Kyle as a hooker / dominatrix?
Yes.
That's one of the best parts. And I love how Frank Miller payed homage to Bill Finger and early Batman artists by naming the Gotham City locations after them. Robinson Park is named after Batman artist Jerry Robinson, Finger Memorial is named after Batman co-creator and writer Bill Finger who died in 1974, and the Sprang Mission is named after Batman artist Dick Sprang.
Catwoman always seemed like a Dominatrix with a whip (which Catwoman first appeared with way back in 1946), Frank Miller naturally expanded upon this. She was a woman who gets paid by men to whip them. Professional dominants do not engage in any form of sexual contact with their paying customers. She's seen holding a whip as a man she calls Skunk says "Selina...don't stop now." She has her clothes on as we see in the very next panel. She was a Dominatrix. She's all decked out in Dominatrix gear including hand cuffs and whip. The stereotyped image of a Dominatrix is of a woman wearing rubber or leather and thigh-length boots with high heels, exactly what Selina is wearing in Batman Year One. Men seeking a Dominatrix are not seeking sex. But to satisfy there s & m fetish to be dominated, bound and whipped and degraded. It's a far more believable origin for Catwoman than an amnesiac flight attendant. Dominatrix's exist. Prostitutes exist. Corruption exists. Miller doesn't sugar coat it. In fact urban crime, corruption and femme fatales/ladies of the evening are classic noir archetypes.
Miller's use of violence and sexual themes is in the nature of the Pulps. Batman has his roots in the noir-styled Pulps, particularly The Shadow. Batman is the essence of noir. He is rather cynical and sneering in mood and often dealing melodramatically with urban crime and corruption.
I love it when Batman beats up Stan. And this scene also displays why Batman needs the bat costume. Without that element of fear and intimidation they don't hesitate to attack.
It's great to see Selina display her cat-like characteristics with the hiss. And showing fighting skills.
Later inspired by Batman's Bat-costumed vigilantism, and seeking new thrills, Selena knocks out Stan (awesome) and buys a Cat-costume and becomes Catwoman, a jewel thief (as Catwoman was in the Finger and Kane stories).
She steals Loeb's collection of pop memorabilia valued at forty thousand dollars and it was funny - she though he'd have jewels - not just old Disney and Charles Schulz cartoon stuff.
Frank Miller expanded and updated Catwoman, making her more real than she ever was before. Miller and David Mazzucchelli also gave her a much better costume than the purple dress and green cape.
Wonder if that's in the remake)
