While I was hoping for a new outfit with the New 52 revamp, they have decided to keep an outfit they have been using for her for a while now.
Which is basically this outfit here. While there have been a few different renditions of this outfit, they have stuck with this design for a while now.
I have to say just as a personal note that this is one of my favorite of the Catwoman outfits created thus far. I know a lot of Catwoman fans hated this movie. Mostly because it was not Selena Kyle. But I absolutely loved the idea of having multiple Catwomen. And Patience Phillips was the perfect rendition of the duality of the character that Catwoman has always portrayed. And this outfit was just smoking hot!
Anyway onto the review!
Warning I will be giving a complete overview of the story featured in Catwoman issue 1, if you don't want to spoil it for yourself I suggest you stop reading now and pick up the issue, and then come back and check out my review!
Plot:
We start off with a half naked Selena Kyle throwing on a leather outfit really quickly, so quickly it seems she is demolishing her apartment. Also shown throwing all her kitties into one cat carrier, maybe the appropriate word is stuffing, there seem to be quite a few. Followed by her front door cracking the busting open as men in skull masks with guns come through, just as she is jumping out the window, half dressed and holding on to her cat carrier, she uses her whip to swing from the rooftops. She gets a few roof tops away a narrative explaining she had no idea who they were, probably someone she pissed off or stole from orr both. Thinking its clear she turns around to see when they leave, thinking if she stays gone for a few days she can circle back, not wanting to lose this apartment like she did her last one. As she turns to check on the apartment it goes up in flames. She ends up at a friends/informants house who tells her about an empty penthouse that she can stay in for a few weeks, followed by information on a Russian Clan/Mob that she could possibly make some money off of. She goes incognito as a bartender for a party the Russian Clan was holding, to see if she can over hear anything worth while. Almost giving up she finally over hears of a panting that was stolen from the Clan, worthless and more importantly priceless to anyone else but extremely valuable to the clan. She decides that's the ticket to making some money and starts to leave when she sees a man she recognizes, who she says is supposed to be locked up, she has a flash back of this man beating a young girl and the shooting her in the head, killing her. While a young Selena Kyle watched. Angry hes free, she follows him to the bathroom, unbuttoning her blouse tricking him into thinking she wants to do things with him, just at that moment she pounces and attacks him, more than likely she killed the man. While outside the Russians have discovered the bartender she drugged and hid in a closet, slipping back into her Catwoman costume she flees, taking out a few of the suppressed Russians as she does so.
She heads back to her loft, where Batman is actually waiting for her, he says he heard about her place getting torched and wanted to know if she is ok, where she responds by kissing him fiercely. She narrates their passion for one another while pieces of costumes are taken off, while she states, she is sure he has no idea she is Selena Kyle, she has no idea who he is and doesn't care.
And were left with that steamy scene.
Here is the cover of the first issue. As you can see they have no problem showing the sultry sexuality of Catwoman, as she pours a small bag of diamonds over her body.
Once again loving everything Catwoman is, she is steamy, sultry, fierce and powerful. That makes for a really sexy character, which is something Catwoman has always been sold on is sex.
I am curious to see as this is my first time reading a Catwoman issue where this will lead? Obviously as she is considered a villain herself she wont be running into villain's, but as she steals from gangsters and what not I am pretty sure she has quite a few enemies. So it will be interesting to see what happens to her.
A trend I have noticed is that the two people shown who care about Catwoman, Batman and her Informant, seem to be concerned for her, both have asked if she is ok? Is something wrong with Catwoman? Is she acting or are things happening to her that are out of the norm? I guess these are things that we will find out.
I love the artistry in this comic book as well, a different style that I am used to and yet still follows what I would consider the classic comic book style.
If your an avid Catwoman fan, pick this up! I happened to get lucky when I went to get my comics I actually got the last issue of Catwoman on the shelf. Still a little bitter that I was one of the first people in line and I missed Supergirl!
Oh well, so I have one more issue to cover, and its actually from last weeks, but I will be covering tomorrow, Batgirl!
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