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QUESTION: What influenced the way you designed the new Catwoman costume?
ED BRUBAKER: Snoopy and Emma Peel, sort of.
For a few months after I knew I was taking over the book, and before I actually started work on it or met Darwyn, my wife, Melanie and I would bounce ideas back and forth about the redesign. The only idea I had at first was the aviation helmet with the googles, like Snoopy or Enemy Ace wore - I thought, let's put her in something that a person could conceivably wear, something with a buckle under the chin. I figured, aviation helmet with ears on it - feels more modern, like something you could see on TV - like on Buffy or Angel - but I couldn't figure out what else to do. Then one day while driving, Melanie suggested putting her in an Emma Peel cat-suit, and I said, "Catsuit? That thing is called a cat suit? Then we have to."
When I met Darwyn and got him onboard, I told him this initial basic idea (which my editor had liked as well), and he ran with it, taking the rudimentaries and creating what I think is the coolest costume redesign I've ever seen. That whip as a belt is about the sexiest idea I've ever seen, and I love that 70s zipper ring, too.