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January 2011. Can one even call this "flirting"? Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle do some heavy lifting in the first issue of Grant Morrison's BATMAN INCORPORATED.

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January 2011. One may say a lot of things, both good and bad, about Grant Morrison's approach to Batman, but one of the good things is that I think they get the Batman-Catwoman relationship. Bruce and Selina's adventure together in the first two issues of Morrison's initial BATMAN INCORPORATED series is, in my view, pretty close to the ideal way to treat their relationship in the contemporary ongoing comics, viz.:

They are obviously sleeping together.

Selina is obviously still stealing stuff.

Bruce is obviously aware that Selina is stealing stuff.

Bruce obviously doesn't really want her to STOP stealing stuff, because if she's too good and noble, it's not hot anymore, and his interest starts to wane (something Doug Moench explored at length in the 1980s) — but he implicitly recognizes that it's also not hot if he acts like he really doesn't care that she's stealing stuff.

Bruce makes clear to Selina that he's prepared to tolerate a certain amount of thievery and low-stakes property crime from her so long as she doesn't make it his problem (e.g., by doing it right in front of him), which isn't the same as saying OK or saying stop, and thus challenges her to make it a game they can continue indefinitely.

He knows that Selina will have his back if there's some actual threat to human life or a caper that seems like fun, but he recognizes and more or less respects that she's not interested in being treated as one of his minions.

They are still flirting pretty much constantly.

This seems like the best way to balance the various aspects of their interactions that people actually like, and is a welcome nod to the Golden Age stories where he would routinely let her escape because it was sexier that way.