The post-coital issue
Catwoman #2
By and large, it’s all the better for it. After last issue’s over-eagerness to try and shock to sell copies, this month sees Catwoman in more familiar territory: using her feline athleticism and gymnastics to get the better of Russian mobsters whilst ensuring she’s kept in the manner to which she’s accustomed (i.e. loaded with ill-gotten gains).
As she leads two rival gangs in a double-cross at a function organised by a certain millionaire playboy, Winick has fun with Catwoman and Bruce Wayne: with Selina thinking he’s just another rich and handsome celebrity after a good time, unaware that Wayne is scoping her every move.
Guillem March‘s artwork is again strong – still with a fondness for cat-like curves, but capable of depicting action and some quite graphic violence with aplomb too.
Towards the end of the issue, things take a much more serious turn as we see Catwoman facing a remorseless and brutal enemy who looks like he’ll be a bit harder to beat than the Russian goons she toyed with earlier.
Here, Winick shows a defter touch than previously, and it will be interesting to see what tone dominates in the issues of Catwoman to follow.
For that reason alone, it’s a title still worth sticking with.
