Parody that failed
I'd never heard of Nightcat, and if the heroine debuted in the early 1990s, then it was one of very few products of Marvel's that slipped under my radar.* Ah, but that's because there was really only ONE book/issue by that name ever published, which BeauCoupKevin dissects over here.
Judging from this profile, I'd say the people involved in this must've also ripped off a few elements from the late-60s Batman TV series with Adam West, too (Cat-illac? Yeah, I'd seen an episode from Bill Dozier's series with that invention). And not just from there - an extending metal staff sounds almost like the reverse of what Matt Murdock could use - a walking stick for the blind that shortens into a billy club. As for the mutation part? Nothing new at all.
And if it was meant to be an in-joke, it sounds like a pretty dim one at that, one that not even a cameo by Stan Lee can save either.
* I never heard of the real life singer it's supposed to star or be based upon either.
Judging from this profile, I'd say the people involved in this must've also ripped off a few elements from the late-60s Batman TV series with Adam West, too (Cat-illac? Yeah, I'd seen an episode from Bill Dozier's series with that invention). And not just from there - an extending metal staff sounds almost like the reverse of what Matt Murdock could use - a walking stick for the blind that shortens into a billy club. As for the mutation part? Nothing new at all.
And if it was meant to be an in-joke, it sounds like a pretty dim one at that, one that not even a cameo by Stan Lee can save either.
* I never heard of the real life singer it's supposed to star or be based upon either.
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