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...
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