Originally Posted by
godisawesome
Count me as one of the people who thinks it really could be exploited to major success with the right vision and awareness, especially with regards to Louisa Falcone, who feels like she could be a complex and dangerous matriarch to oppose and confuse Selina.
By and large, the whol idea was mostly just Loeb’s little hobby; almost no one else made any effort to reference it or acknowledge it, while Maggie showed up and her origin story acknowledged clearly.
Here’s what I think has happened outside of Loeb’s own work:
- Tony Daniels brought back Mario Falcone in his Detective Comics run, alongside his niece Kitrina. The story was rather sloppy given Daniels’s inexperience, as I don’t think it was ever all that clear who Kitrina’s father or mother was supposed to be, but the story did have Selina end up recruiting Kitirina to be “Catgirl”, with the clear implication being because Selina was her aunt. It got dropped with the New 52.
- Batman Eternal seems to be heading that way, especially once the audience knew that QueenPin Selina was coming and that Carmine Falcone was back… but the story ultimately introduced an entirely different crime family, the Calabrese family, as Selina’s estranged family.
Personally… I’d try and combine her origins a bit; have Selina and Maggie be either half-sisters or adopted sisters, and have Selina become aware she could be Falcone’s daughter (though perhaps she could be Louisa’s instead of Carmine’s), and combine an envy of a life she was denied with a love for the sister she had.