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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Catwoman is a character I enjoy but not always her own comics. Now this is the run to be considered the best, the Big Score then into Ed Brubaker's run. Is it good though? Let's talk about it.
We have Salina having to team up with people to, well, complete a huge score. Luckily this has a very fun tone throughout with dark elements. I think that's the best way to write a heist like story with multiple scumbag characters. And while Salina is the star here, the sidecast is given a lot of love and time too. Some major deaths and twist I didn't expect but enjoyed non-the-less. I also really enjoyed the art, while cartoony and looks like a kid TV show, it somehow works really well.
Though the plot feels stretched at times, it's overall a really fun time, and worth checking if you like Catwoman at all. A 4 out of 5.
We have Salina having to team up with people to, well, complete a huge score. Luckily this has a very fun tone throughout with dark elements. I think that's the best way to write a heist like story with multiple scumbag characters. And while Salina is the star here, the sidecast is given a lot of love and time too. Some major deaths and twist I didn't expect but enjoyed non-the-less. I also really enjoyed the art, while cartoony and looks like a kid TV show, it somehow works really well.
Though the plot feels stretched at times, it's overall a really fun time, and worth checking if you like Catwoman at all. A 4 out of 5.
Selina Kyle is dead.
Or at least that’s what the world thinks after a mishandled heist didn’t work out her way. But now she’s back and she needs the proper way to reintroduce herself to the world. To this end, Selina has learned about a cross-border transport of riches that belong to the Falcone family and she wants her part. But she can’t do it alone. So accomplices join the party, both old and new. But they need to hurry, a Gotham private eye is on to her return and the Falcones are quick to catch on to plots against them.
This is what I love… stories about Selina Kyle the catburglar. No Batman. The world needs more of this Selina. It’s why she’s my favorite Bat-world character. And Darwyn Cooke does her serious justice with his portrayal. LOVE IT.
Or at least that’s what the world thinks after a mishandled heist didn’t work out her way. But now she’s back and she needs the proper way to reintroduce herself to the world. To this end, Selina has learned about a cross-border transport of riches that belong to the Falcone family and she wants her part. But she can’t do it alone. So accomplices join the party, both old and new. But they need to hurry, a Gotham private eye is on to her return and the Falcones are quick to catch on to plots against them.
This is what I love… stories about Selina Kyle the catburglar. No Batman. The world needs more of this Selina. It’s why she’s my favorite Bat-world character. And Darwyn Cooke does her serious justice with his portrayal. LOVE IT.
It was okay. However I really liked the way he drew her eyes. They sure were purdy.
Selina's Big Score is Darwyn Cooke doing what Darwyn Cooke does: be brilliant. The only combo writer/artist who can pull off noir books in a superhero world. Now this isn't his best work but its really good. The art is all little rougher than his current work but it was still phenomenal. Seeing the various aspects of a job being planned and executed plus things from Selina's past made this book a treat. Don't miss this!
So, Selina's Big Score. What's there to say about this book. Well, I hated it the first time I read it-- attached such as it is to an otherwise good and occasionally excellent Ed Brubaker run on Catwoman's monthly title-- and coming back to it now, having not only read all four of Cooke's Parker adaptations but gotten into Richard Stark's original Parker stories with several book-only entries under my belt-- I see what he's going for now, but I still don't like it.
The character of "Stark," who taught Selina everything she knows, is obviously Parker; yes, this story predates his Parker adaptations, but it's not just the name-- he even draws Stark the way he draws post-surgery Parker in The Outfit (with shades of Lee Marvin in Point Blank!, clearly on Cooke's mind as well if an otherwise out-of-nowhere Angie Dickinson reference is anything to go by). But the violence against women, and the focus on this character (and hardboiled dick Slam Bradley, who'd be improved by Brubaker in the ongoing series) distract heavily from what should have been Selina's story.
In fact, I think Cooke missed the mark here for one major reason. He wanted to insert Parker into a heist story to bring Selina into that kind of world. But she's already there. Selina IS Parker. The survival instinct, the individualism, the animal nature that drives him drives her as well. But this story thinks someone like Parker must be a man, and Selina must be instead a more classic femme fatale, and so it can't get her right when it counts. Damn shame.
The character of "Stark," who taught Selina everything she knows, is obviously Parker; yes, this story predates his Parker adaptations, but it's not just the name-- he even draws Stark the way he draws post-surgery Parker in The Outfit (with shades of Lee Marvin in Point Blank!, clearly on Cooke's mind as well if an otherwise out-of-nowhere Angie Dickinson reference is anything to go by). But the violence against women, and the focus on this character (and hardboiled dick Slam Bradley, who'd be improved by Brubaker in the ongoing series) distract heavily from what should have been Selina's story.
In fact, I think Cooke missed the mark here for one major reason. He wanted to insert Parker into a heist story to bring Selina into that kind of world. But she's already there. Selina IS Parker. The survival instinct, the individualism, the animal nature that drives him drives her as well. But this story thinks someone like Parker must be a man, and Selina must be instead a more classic femme fatale, and so it can't get her right when it counts. Damn shame.
This Catwoman tale by Darwyn Cooke is a great homage to Richard Stark’s (Donald E Westlake’s) Parker novels.
Catwoman gets wind of a potential heist caper that requires her to put a team together. Her go-to guy is Stark (a stand-in for Parker), who was Selina’s mentor and lover, and whom she had long ago stiffed on a a diamond heist.
Westlake-level action and plot twists ensue, with crackling noir dialog.
Also on hand is private eye Slam Bradley, who figured largely in the Ed Brubaker’s Catwoman run.
This graphic novel functions as a good lead-in/try-out for Cooke’s later series of Parker graphic novels.
Catwoman gets wind of a potential heist caper that requires her to put a team together. Her go-to guy is Stark (a stand-in for Parker), who was Selina’s mentor and lover, and whom she had long ago stiffed on a a diamond heist.
Westlake-level action and plot twists ensue, with crackling noir dialog.
Also on hand is private eye Slam Bradley, who figured largely in the Ed Brubaker’s Catwoman run.
This graphic novel functions as a good lead-in/try-out for Cooke’s later series of Parker graphic novels.
I love that Darwin Cooke, a fan of Richard Stark’s writing and from whom Cooke clearly pulls inspiration from, not only created a Parker-like character for Selina’s Big Score, but named the character “Stark”.