DCU Comic Book Reviews

CATWOMAN #73

Crime Pays, Part 2

January 2008

Written by Will Pfeifer

Pencils by David Lopez

Inks by Alvaro Lopez

Cover by Adam Hughes

Synopsis

After Selina Kyle’s (aka Catwoman) apartment explodes and is destroyed in a fiery blaze, she breaks into a store to steal clothes and mask.  Selina then goes to the Gotham bus terminal to retrieve items she had stashed away for a rainy day.  However, they have been stolen.  Selina breaks into the Calculator’s home to learn who might’ve stolen her stuff or blown up her apartment, but the Calculator does not know anything.  At this point, all Selina wants is a spare mask.  Calculator leads her to Conrad Krupp, a millionaire who collected items from villains and heroes.  Selina breaks into Krupp’s house and retrieves her mask.  She also manages to retrieve Calculator’s old mask, which she returns to him.  As thanks, Calculator gives her a tip on where she might find the one who blew up her apartment.  When she gets there, however, she finds herself in the midst of a trap.  And drugged by the Calculator, who was upset when Selina broke into his place.  Selina also finds herself face-to-face with masked man holding a gun to her head.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

I think I have said this before somewhere on this website and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I had stated it for a different issue of this very series, but sometimes when an issue maintains a high level of quality from a previous issue, there is not much you can say about it.  And Catwoman falls into that category.  What I enjoy the most about this series is that while Pfeifer is writing a continuous story (with the pre-requisite cliff hangers), each issue still manages to have self-contained moments, such as the search for her spare mask and the break-in of the Krupp mansion. 

Pfeifer has been writing this series for some time and he understands the character.  More importantly, he understands the type of stories that should be written for Catwoman.  Selina is not a detective or a boy scout, but simply someone trying to survive, but she finds there is always something that gets in the way.  She is always fighting just to get her life back to some semblance of order, whether it is protecting her baby or protecting herself.  For Selina, there is always a struggle.  Pfeifer understands that, which is why this issue works so well.  Selina is fighting to understand who took her life, her possessions away and there seems to be someone who is always in her way.  The joy of reading this series is watching Selina fighting against these sources, knowing that she will earn small victories, but the ultimate victory is still out of reach.

 

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