Catwoman #60

Overall, this is a tense and pulpy issue with a fun last-second twist that keeps the format from getting stale, but Flamingo is a villain I never found all that interesting, similar to Pyg. Read Full Review

Catwoman #60 is the tone-setter for this arc and what's to follow. While there's the ongoing mystery about her fate, we get an individual, stand-alone, punchy issue that she's in charge of. It feels like this creative team can truly do anything. Read Full Review

This Catwoman arc is shaping up well with each issue offering up a complete story, strong art, and a fun gimmick in Selina's nine lives. While there are still some negatives here, they don't significantly detract from the story and, as an entertaining diversion, this series is delivering. Recommended! Read Full Review

This story is a confusing romp that has not decided if it is a personal revenge story or just an elaborate heist. If it is a heist, it failed, if it a revenge story, it may have failed again. The art was fantastic though. Read Full Review

The Nine Lives arc continues to be a fascinating beast, with an increasingly clever concept getting mired by some chunky storytelling tactics. Read Full Review

LeonReadsNRates

Jan 21, 2024

An entirely OK issue that really makes you wonder if the writer actually knows much about deadly injections. Even if a deadly injection misses a major artery it can still be fatal but WHATEVER this is comics and small details like that should be brushed to the side (probably). Eduardo Flamingo is a gross villain from the best days of Morrison's writing for DC, and it's good to see him back. Although why Selina would want to work with him is questionable, in the end, all she really wants is to steal an Idol of Bacchus. The idol being in the hands of someone disgustingly wealth makes sense and he hosts bloody stageplays to make sacrifices to the idol. The story is quick and to the point. Unfortunately, Flamingo is something of a footnote i n this issue and isn't that important other than being thorn in Selina cat suit. She also has a curious gift (curse) where she has additional lives to burn, so she's being extra careless while barely sneaking into the stageplay. Once again, very strong art Stefano Raffaele, if his art wasn't here I would probably rate this lower but thankfully there's still solid pencilers working for DC. Recommended. more

Screaming Enigma

Mar 23, 2024

I'm just not the biggest fan of this storyline, unfortunately. I think it has an interesting concept, but the execution of it leaves a bit to be desired, unfortunately. It doesn't help that the logic of Selina suddenly working with Flamingo wasn't really clear to me. Maybe I missed something there, but I just wish this was coming together better.

ItsJess

Dec 19, 2023

Wretched narration. Crazy that this writer is being given more work, much less the GCS.

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Softboy - Dec 21, 2023 (edited)

Howard and Williams getting more DC work, wish they’d take their “talents” back to Marvel.

ItsJess - Dec 21, 2023

If only

LeonReadsNRates - Jan 21, 2024

Was this comic that bad? It seemed pretty inoffensive to me.

ItsJess - Jan 22, 2024

It wasn't too terrible compared to her other work, but the narration, particularly on (if I recall correctly) page 1 was really awful. Combine that with the 9-ways-to-die concept and other stupid shit like being "killed" on stage in an entirely mundane manner incongruent with the idea of Flamingo's little event, then being merely deposited in an alley, and its pretty bad.

liolia

Dec 19, 2023

I do feel rather mean-spirited leaving consistently bad reviews for this series, but I cannot get over how much of a poor writer Tini Howard is. Catwoman is my favorite character - it was really a revelation to read her Volume III run where she was complicated, competent and creative, and it was so much fun to read her Volume II run where she was FUN and smart and independent, to say nothing of her portrayal in adaptation. It hurts A LOT to consistently have to endure Howard's current take on this character, who Howard thinks is a dumb, shallow, STUPID, romantically obsessed immature dumb-dumb cat chick, who talks in banal purple prose. Also, why is Selina killing people in this? The recent announcement that Howard will get to drag this character down further into the mud with her upcoming Gotham City Sirens book is incredibly discouraging. more

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JBL Reviews - Dec 21, 2023

I don’t enjoy any of her work and get confused that she gets work.

ResearchReader

Dec 28, 2023

Laugh with me! Laugh with me! This dumpsterfire has got to the point its so bad its good. Catwoman has fully transcended to a clown (literally and figuratively at some points in this story). She has no common sense, no skill, a full on bumbling stooge. Tini shows she must have slept through highschool and still passed as she don't know that injecting chemical cleaner like drano into your neck would kill you. She thinks it just knocks you out if it doesnt hit a vain. Hint: You would almost certainly die, it would dissolve the surrounding vains in your neck and you would bleed out/internally hemorrhage quickly. Also Catwoman working with a cannibal clown with no logic is amazingly terrible. This series is now so bad its great. Get it in a dollar bin a few months from now. Store owners will likely have to pay people to take this book with how bad it is. This wreck literally brings to me laughter. The art is also terrible. They dont even have good cover artists anymore. DC I think has given up on Catwoman. The fall from V and JJ is massive. more