Warning! Spoilers ahead for Catwoman #30
Just like Princess Leia rescuing Han Solo from being Jabba’s wall art in Star Wars, Selina Kyle’s Catwoman is performing a similar rescue mission in her latest issue from DC Comics. While Poison Ivy was being experimented on, she’s now been turned into an exotic art piece by an eccentric criminal collector. It also looks as though Catwoman will be on her own as well, as she and Batman are still on their one-year break up after the events of the Joker War.
Having saved the life of the Riddler in the previous issue, Selina learned that Edward Nygma had been taking an experimental drug that had been manufactured in Gotham. While the highs enhanced Nygma’s intellect and performance, the inevitable lows were debilitating. This prompted Nygma to do some investigating, and he learned that the drug was being made from Poison Ivy’s unique DNA, which explained why she’s been missing for the last few months. However, now that the clandestine operation found a way to synthesize the drug, the lead scientist was ordered to dispose of Ivy’s body along with all other evidence.
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However, this lead scientist (Dr. Siddhart Roy) is also an avid art collector with exotic tastes, and Catwoman #30 from writer Ram V with art by Fernando Blanco reveals that he’s secretly kept Ivy in her containment unit, taking her to his mansion to be displayed like a work of art, not unlike Han Solo trapped in carbonite in Return of the Jedi. While Selina had been looking for her old friend and coming up short, she does receive a tip from a mysterious source offering to help, revealing Ivy’s current predicament and where she’s being held prisoner.
Now, Selina has gone undercover at Roy’s party, disguising herself as one of Gotham’s elite in order to case the house, create a plan on the fly, and break Ivy out. While one might have hoped that Selina would have called Harley Quinn for help in order to have a full-blown Gotham City Sirens reunion, it does seem as though this rescue mission is going to require a bit more subtlety and finesse than Harley is probably able to handle. Two out of three Sirens reuniting will have to be enough.
In any case, it’s going to be cool to see Catwoman saving Ivy from becoming perpetual decor in the hands of a criminal art collector. Likewise, it’s going to be wild to see what Ivy might do once she’s freed, as it’s likely that there’s going to be reckoning against those who held her against her will and used her to make a debilitating drug to plague Gotham. Regardless, readers will just have to wait and see if Catwoman’s successful in her Star Wars–esque rescue mission in future issues of the series from DC Comics.
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