DCU Comic Book Reviews

CATWOMAN #65

The Paperweight, Conclusion

May 2007

Written by Will Pfeifer

Pencils by David Lopez

Inks by Alvaro Lopez

Cover by Adam Hughes

Synopsis

Selina (aka Catwoman) has entered the basement of the LexCorp building in search of a paperweight, which she has found.  But she has also found Lex Luthor.  Selina attacks him in an attempt to get away, but Lex easily evades her kick and then grabs her by the throat.  She then claws at his face, revealing that this Lex is actually a robot.  She is able to get away, but she finds that she is trapped inside the basement without any way to escape.  Forced to battle the LexBot, she is able to defeat it, but set off an explosion that would destroy the entire basement.  Luckily, she is able to use a defective time machine, which sends her four minutes into the past, just long enough to avoid the blast before returning to the present.  When she returns, the basement is in ruins with blast holes allowing her to escape.  Later, Selina calls the Calculator to confirm that Holly’s name will be expunged from police records.  Calculatro is about to tell Selina something more, but she is interrupted by the appearance of Warp, angered that Selina had stolen his device.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit”

This was another stellar issue and with time travel, killer robots, and Superman getting a verbal lashing what is there not to like about it?  I especially liked the way events in this issue bring together all of the disparate parts of this storyline into a neat, tidy bow.  Not only was the strange time travel sequence from a previous issue explained, but it also became integral to Selina’s escape from the exploding robot.  Moreover, Warp’s device that allowed her to get inside in the first place comes into play twice, first when it fails to get her out and then at the end when Warp comes looking for it.  The cat and mouse (heh, I made a funny!) battle between Selina and LexBot was well done; the action was swift and LexBot’s ego and superior attitude were great since it wasn’t that far removed from Lex himself.   

Superman’s brief cameo was a bit odd, at least to me.  I could not decide if Superman knew the secret identity of Catwoman or Selina Kyle or not.  Was he just attempting to stop a random burglar among the confusion of the explosion (and why wasn’t he helping with the rescue, if needed, or clean-up?) or did he really want Catwoman out of Metropolis?  I liked her reaction to him and the way she smacks him around.  His rejoinder about leaving his city seemed forced and did not quite work, even given Selina’s comment about Batman’s influence. 

I wonder if we will ever learn what the snowglobe means?  I suppose it could be a major MacGuffin and Pfeiffer won’t feel the need to explain and that is fine with me.  But there is something odd about its worthlessness that makes me think otherwise.  If Pfeiffer truly wanted a MacGuffin he should’ve had Selina steal something more valuable.  But a snowglobe?

Even though I liked the way the time traveling device worked within the story, I am a little confused.  According to the robot, the user would “bounce back to where -- and when -- they started.”  To me, this means if you left at 2:34, you would return at 2:34.  Yet, in the story, Selina pops back in later than the time (or when) she started, thereby missing the explosion.

Pliny the Younger was an ancient Roman statesman, orator, and writer.  I don’t why I decided to look this up but the odd name struck me as something fictional but obviously that is not the case.  And, yes, the quote above does indeed belong to Pliny. 

 

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