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After the depressing ambiguity of "The End," I felt it incumbent upon me to clarify Maw's eventual fate. Plus, it gave me a chance to work on my casual posing figures, and play with fun fonts.

When we last heard from Maw, previously known as Sellette Brodequin, her mutation had spiraled out of control and she was dying. Desperate to live, if for no other reason than for the sake of her adopted daughter Bitter Almond and her starfish Colby, she paid an undisclosed sum in diamonds to Hugo Strange for an experimental cure. However, Strange's lab was raided by the Batman, and the glass tube containing Maw vanished entirely. People presumed she was dead. And for two or three years, the business of Gotham went on without her.

But in the world of super-heroes, death is never really permanent. Batman had attacked Strange's laboratory because he suspected that the scientist was turning people into mutants for his own use; finding Maw, he didn't recognize her at all, and assumed she was one of Strange's victims. He took the unconscious Maw back to one of his laboratories and set to work reversing the mutation. By the time the process was halfway completed, he realized who--or rather, what--he was really dealing with, and considered stopping the procedure. But he realized that to leave the mutation unchecked would definitely kill her. Damn his conscience!

She was in a coma for almost six months while being worked on. After coming to, and realizing who had saved her, Maw experienced a severe moral crisis, and eventually decided to give up her criminal activities. Well, most of them.

He saved her life. That doesn't mean they're friends. But now, at the age of forty-nine, Maw has gone over to the side of . . . well, chaotic neutral, actually. She's more of a rampant, self-serving vigilante than an active threat to Gotham or its people, and is concentrating on only hurting folks who really deserve it. Considering her previous face-eating habits, that's a real improvement from Gotham's point of view.

Forty-nine-year-old, post-mutation Maw has several changes. Her hair has turned gray, although her natural coloration means that it's more blue-white. Several features have actually receded; her claws have fallen out, and her jaw can no longer unhinge. The flippers have also begun turning back into feet, and the ears are smaller. One leg was unsalvageable, and had to be amputated; she used some of her cash stockpile to have an artificial one with a gill assembly built, so she can swim as fast and breathe as well as ever. There are several long scars on her body where clumps of mutated tumors were excised. But despite all that, she's live and kicking (biting, scratching, breaking arms, eating poisons, smart-assing, monologuing, complaining, threatening).

Description
After the depressing ambiguity of "The End," I felt it incumbent upon me to clarify Maw's eventual fate. Plus, it gave me a chance to work on my casual posing figures, and play with fun fonts.

When we last heard from Maw, previously known as Sellette Brodequin, her mutation had spiraled out of control and she was dying. Desperate to live, if for no other reason than for the sake of her adopted daughter Bitter Almond and her starfish Colby, she paid an undisclosed sum in diamonds to Hugo Strange for an experimental cure. However, Strange's lab was raided by the Batman, and the glass tube containing Maw vanished entirely. People presumed she was dead. And for two or three years, the business of Gotham went on without her.

But in the world of super-heroes, death is never really permanent. Batman had attacked Strange's laboratory because he suspected that the scientist was turning people into mutants for his own use; finding Maw, he didn't recognize her at all, and assumed she was one of Strange's victims. He took the unconscious Maw back to one of his laboratories and set to work reversing the mutation. By the time the process was halfway completed, he realized who--or rather, what--he was really dealing with, and considered stopping the procedure. But he realized that to leave the mutation unchecked would definitely kill her. Damn his conscience!

She was in a coma for almost six months while being worked on. After coming to, and realizing who had saved her, Maw experienced a severe moral crisis, and eventually decided to give up her criminal activities. Well, most of them.

He saved her life. That doesn't mean they're friends. But now, at the age of forty-nine, Maw has gone over to the side of . . . well, chaotic neutral, actually. She's more of a rampant, self-serving vigilante than an active threat to Gotham or its people, and is concentrating on only hurting folks who really deserve it. Considering her previous face-eating habits, that's a real improvement from Gotham's point of view.

Forty-nine-year-old, post-mutation Maw has several changes. Her hair has turned gray, although her natural coloration means that it's more blue-white. Several features have actually receded; her claws have fallen out, and her jaw can no longer unhinge. The flippers have also begun turning back into feet, and the ears are smaller. One leg was unsalvageable, and had to be amputated; she used some of her cash stockpile to have an artificial one with a gill assembly built, so she can swim as fast and breathe as well as ever. There are several long scars on her body where clumps of mutated tumors were excised. But despite all that, she's live and kicking (biting, scratching, breaking arms, eating poisons, smart-assing, monologuing, complaining, threatening).