DCU Comic Book Reviews

CATWOMAN #68

Catwoman Dies, Conclusion

August 2007

Written by Will Pfeifer

Pencils by David Lopez

Inks by Alvaro Lopez

Cover by Adam Hughes

Synopsis

Selina Kyle (aka Catwoman) had been battling Boris and Natasha (aka Hammer and Sickle), when Boris left the scene to go after Selina’s daughter Helena.  Boris easily knocks down Karon and takes the baby.  Selina steals a police car and races home.  When she gets there, she finds her daughter sitting in the middle of the road.  Selina stops the car and crashes.  She is able to get away, grabbing Helena and running with Boris and Natasha right behind her.  They catch up with Selina and take her back to her apartment to kill her, but Selina fights back.  She knocks Boris out the window, but he is still holding Helena.  Selina follows them out the window, grabs Helena, and lets Boris fall to the ground.  Hanging out the window, Selina tries to climb back in, but is blocked by Natasha.  Before She can do anything, however, Holly arrives and kicks her out the window.  The two then realize things will have to change and they will have to leave their lives as they know it behind. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

All right, I’ll say this right off the bat, I think the “kid in peril” angle has already been played out one too many times and I think Helena has been around only for a little more than a year.  In this issue, the situations Pfeifer puts the poor baby are too unbelievable; the odds that anyone could escape injury from having a car collide in front of them and then roll over them is got to be high.  Even if the car misses, you’ve got to consider debris like glass flying all over the place.

Despite that small little nitpick, this issue continues the same high quality that Pfeifer and the Lopez boys create every single month.  I may pick nits at the reality of the car scene, but, man, the scene was crafted with kinetic pacing, highlighted and heightened by the use of the numerous panels to show the scene unfolding.  The rest of the issue is more of the same as Pfeifer continually puts Selina into high stakes situations, whether for herself, for Holly, or for her baby.  I loved the sequence of panels on page 2 showing Boris attacking Karon and grabbing the baby.  I also like the smile on Selina’s face when she gets Alfred on the phone and the boot mark on her face for the scenes at the end. 

The One Year Later leap began with Selina retiring to raise her daughter; now, she is doing her best just to keep her safe for the elements associated with being Catwoman.  It didn’t work with Holly.  Because of Catwoman, she has to run away from her lover and from Gotham in order to survive, as seen in Countdown.  And now Selina is being put in the same position.  It will be interesting to see where Pfeifer takes Selina from her.  This is the one book that has forward momentum and seems to be going somewhere with the characters rather than spinning their wheels, either waiting for the high profile creators to get their buts in gear or waiting for some editorial mandate to provide the next storyline.  This is one of the best books DC has to offer. 

 

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