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

[aeka]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way. From what I've read of three issues so far, Winick doesn't get the character. He doesn't get what motivates and drives her, and instead he seems to see her as more of a wildcard: someone who is impulsive, doesn't think about what consequences her actions could bring, and gets violently out of control when triggered. This is NOT the Selina I know and love, which tells me this book isn't so much about Selina but bad canonical fanfiction. XP

I'm looking for an awesome complex character. The Brubaker and Cooke Catwoman series was awesome. This is basically garbage.

THIS THIS THIS!!!!! A MILLION TIMES THIS!!!

[fifthie]

bad canonical fanfiction.

Winick.

...given the reboot, it's not like you even have to allow that any of this is canon anyway.

[benicio127]

I actually got the Brubaker and Cooke series through the Comixology iPad app. You can read each panel at a time. I felt like it was a perfect way of being able to take in every little bit of Cooke's amazing art. God, that series is so good.