Catwoman #3

[aeka]

No violent anonymous shagging this time...(well maybe a bit of snogging), but there's still a WHOLE lot of violence, and I mean LOTS of it.

Long story short: Bone guy receiving a pummelling in these pages killed Selina's friend Lola in the last issue, and now Selina's out for revenge...Helena Bertinelli style!









So Selina not only has anonymous violent sex with a man she doesn't even know, but she's also willing to kill now. Lovely. At least now if Helena Bertinelli really does turn out to be Helena Wayne at the end of her mini, there will be an excuse now for her willingness to kill. Fantastic!

Le sigh. Now I'm really hoping Earth-2 Selina is the Selina we saw in the 90s comics: a witty but mostly harmless thief with finesse. This Selina? There's no finesse to her. She's blunt and straight to the point. Not the Selina I know and love, which is an even bigger letdown. >:(

Comments

[oroburos69]

Does the sequence with the baseball bat not look oddly similar to the sequence where the Joker killed Jason? Or is that just me? Or is it that there's only so many ways to draw someone being beaten with a blunt instrument?

If I pretend that this is a new character all together, I really like her in these scans. No random cleavage, wearing flat-soled boots, violently angry and seemingly wildly impulsive in a way that works...there's a lot to like about this portrayal.

I sort of feel like Batman is more out of character for not trying to take her to jail or something. Because seriously, she attacked a guy with a baseball bat and tried to kill him.

[darkknightjrk]

I don't know, this take on Catwoman totally works for me. It certainly doesn't work as well if you go directly from what Brubaker was doing, but as a younger, more impulsive take, it works.

"I sort of feel like Batman is more out of character for not trying to take her to jail or something. Because seriously, she attacked a guy with a baseball bat and tried to kill him."

My guess is that Batman's been after this guy for a while himself--and that's always kind-of been his struggle with Catwoman--she does things that are against the law, but he cares about her in a way that makes it hard for him to put her away.