We now know Catwoman’s answer to Batman’s proposal

Several months ago DC comics made big news when Batman proposed to his longtime on-again-off-again love Catwoman. We now know her answer.

This is a pretty big spoiler for the upcoming future of Batman comics, so avoid this if you don’t want to get spoiled. Tom King’s run on Batman has become a stark character study of who and what exactly the Dark Knight is. The ‘I Am Suicide’ storyline redefined his origins and gave Bruce Wayne a darker outlook on his whole heroic lifestyle.

All of this led to the big moment when he finally got down on one knee and confessed his love for Selina Kyle. Their romance has been a roller coaster ride of hero and villain chasing each other all over the world. Coming to terms with his affections for Selina shows that Batman is facing up to the darkness within his own heart and mind.

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So, what is her answer? According to the leaked pages and multiple websites, Selina Kyle says yes. Who knows how far off the actual wedding is, but for now it appears that the world’s greatest detective is now engaged to the world’s greatest thief. It would seem that this would lead to Catwoman becoming more of a mainstay in the primary Batman series. The biggest question to me is whether or not this wedding will actually happen. In the past, DC comics has seen marriage as a pretty bad thing for a character to do. With the most recent relaunches they erased several marriages from the DC universe, like Flash with Iris West and Superman with Lois Lane.

Some cosmic arrangements put Superman and Lois back in wedded bliss with their son Jonathan, but this is still the company that refused to let Batwoman get married at all just a few years ago even though the writers had already planned it out. With Catwoman saying yes then the only way for this to follow through is for them to actually get married. I mean if Selina somehow ends up murdered or sidelined, then it is just another example of violence against women for the sake of a male character’s story. Something that DC has a bad history with, just look up the ‘Women in Refrigerators’ memes and protests.

That phrase spawned from an issue where Green Lantern Kyle Rayner’s girlfriend was murdered and shoved inside a refrigerator. It became the primary example of women getting sidelined in order to push a man’s story forward. Tom King has been writing a fantastic take on Batman and his work with Mister Miracle and Vision was so good that I have faith he won’t do this type of thing to Selina Kyle.

This is a major status quo change for Batman and expands his world beyond his whole loner persona. King has shown that he likes to develop and change the characters he is in charge of. This moment looks like Bruce Wayne might be moving slightly away from all of his usual doom and gloom.

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Batman #32, by Tom King and Mikel Janin, will hit shelves on Wednesday, Oct. 4