As a quick reference for newcomers, I prepared a History of Lex Luthor in Cat-Tales to bring new readers up to speed and refresh memories elsewhere.
After that, it's on to NMK Inc to find out what the crazy cue ball is up to now.
Thursday, October 24, 2013
From Today, You Won't Have Lex Luthor to Kick Around Anymore
As a quick reference for newcomers, I prepared a History of Lex Luthor in Cat-Tales to bring new readers up to speed and refresh memories elsewhere.
After that, it's on to NMK Inc to find out what the crazy cue ball is up to now.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
NMK Inc.
The new Cat-Tale begins today.
NMK Inc. is the name of a firm that first made its appearance in Not My Kink, when Selina took over Batman's patrols for a few weeks while Bruce recovered from an injury. She wasn't happy about it, having proclaimed crimefighting "not my kink" on many occasions before and after. That's why Bruce chose the name NMK Shipping when he needed a new shield company to lay a trap for Ra's al Ghul. It's not like the name mattered, no one would ever see it. He just needed a new corporate entity unconnected to any of Batman's existing shield companies, and because Ra's was involved, it couldn't be connected to anything Wayne either. He put Selina's name at the end of the paper trail no one would ever see, and because the whole thing resulted from a lead she uncovered as Catwoman the crimefighter, he called the company NMK as a private joke.
Until The Gotham Rogues, when war broke out between Carmine Falcone's crime family and the theme villains. Day by day Falcone lost property to the Rogues, and as they fell one by one, Batman scrambled to keep Falcone from getting them back. He used the old shield company, reinvented as NMK Holdings, and at the start of Wayne Rises, Selina found herself in control of "an awful lot of Gotham real estate." At first she worked with the Wayne Foundation as Bruce intended, making the properties available for various philanthropic entities and using others for a business incubator to stimulate the Gotham economy. While this was going on, a faction inside Ra's al Ghul's operation launched a new and very expensive assault on Gotham City and on Bruce Wayne personally. They had to leverage, sell and otherwise cripple other parts of the organization to fund the plan... and that gave Selina an idea. She put all the charitable giving on hold and began using NMK to do to Ra's what they'd done to Falcone - buy up, lock down and otherwise screw with all the parts of his operation that were now vulnerable.
Working with her banker in Zurich, she has established Nicht Meine Kragenweite Holdinggesellschaft, an international counterpart to NMK. And thus begins our new tale...
NMK Inc. is the name of a firm that first made its appearance in Not My Kink, when Selina took over Batman's patrols for a few weeks while Bruce recovered from an injury. She wasn't happy about it, having proclaimed crimefighting "not my kink" on many occasions before and after. That's why Bruce chose the name NMK Shipping when he needed a new shield company to lay a trap for Ra's al Ghul. It's not like the name mattered, no one would ever see it. He just needed a new corporate entity unconnected to any of Batman's existing shield companies, and because Ra's was involved, it couldn't be connected to anything Wayne either. He put Selina's name at the end of the paper trail no one would ever see, and because the whole thing resulted from a lead she uncovered as Catwoman the crimefighter, he called the company NMK as a private joke.
Until The Gotham Rogues, when war broke out between Carmine Falcone's crime family and the theme villains. Day by day Falcone lost property to the Rogues, and as they fell one by one, Batman scrambled to keep Falcone from getting them back. He used the old shield company, reinvented as NMK Holdings, and at the start of Wayne Rises, Selina found herself in control of "an awful lot of Gotham real estate." At first she worked with the Wayne Foundation as Bruce intended, making the properties available for various philanthropic entities and using others for a business incubator to stimulate the Gotham economy. While this was going on, a faction inside Ra's al Ghul's operation launched a new and very expensive assault on Gotham City and on Bruce Wayne personally. They had to leverage, sell and otherwise cripple other parts of the organization to fund the plan... and that gave Selina an idea. She put all the charitable giving on hold and began using NMK to do to Ra's what they'd done to Falcone - buy up, lock down and otherwise screw with all the parts of his operation that were now vulnerable.
Working with her banker in Zurich, she has established Nicht Meine Kragenweite Holdinggesellschaft, an international counterpart to NMK. And thus begins our new tale...
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| Jim Gordon is back. When he resigned, Catwoman was an anonymous
cat burglar. Now she's Selina Kyle, living with Bruce Wayne, and running this company that's messing with Ra's al Ghul. Might be a learning curve. |
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