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CATWOMAN #75

Waking Up On The Wrong Side Of The Universe, Part 1

March 2008

Written by Will Pfeifer

Pencils by David Lopez

Inks by Alvaro Lopez

Cover by Adam Hughes

Synopsis

Selina Kyle (aka Catwoman) has been captured by the Suicide Squad and sent to a planet about four thousand light years from Earth.  She arrives there with Lex Luthor, who thinks he finds a native power source and suggests they check out.  Catwoman, however, decides to investigate on her own.  She then encounters Killer Croc and the Joker, who has big plans for her, but she turns him down and runs away.  Later, Lex Luthor manages to find her.  Luthor thinks he found a way home, but needs Catwoman’s skills.  This time she agrees to help.  Along with Cheetah, Catwoman is able to break into some kind of power facility.  They accidentally turn it on and it sends Catwoman back to Gotham City.  She also finds herself face-to-face with Batman, who holds a gun to her head and tells she cannot get away with killing Black Mask. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Pfeifer is amazing.  His writing on the Amazons Attack mini-series was not the greatest thing in the world, but somehow he managed to make the Catwoman tie-in issues better than his own mini-series.  And now with a tie-in to Salvation Run, he manages to make a more compelling story here in this issue than the main story it spins off from.  Perhaps it is Selina.  Perhaps Pfeifer understands her so well that it just shows through on the page each and every month.  And it shows this month as well as Selina’s adventures are much more interesting than the rotating narrative focus of the minis-series.  I think it helps to have one main character as the lead rather than a cast of thousands as it helps to focus on a story rather than the broad picture, but I think that is a criticism of the mini-series more so than this book. 

The thing about the ending, and what I really like about it, is that Catwoman could have easily landed in any of the other Earth’s that comprise the multiverse.  It doesn’t (and probably isn’t because of the gun) in her own world.  It is for this reason that the multiverse was created, to open up the door of possibilities to a plethora of potential stories.  I am curious to see if Pfeifer is going to pull her back to Hell Planet or if the brief stay there was just a means to an end to get her to a different Earth.

I don’t know what made me think of it, but I wonder if the connection with Lex Luthor in this issue (and/or storyline) might somehow be connected to the snow globe she stole a number of issues ago.  Frankly, I wouldn’t think so, but it did cross my mind for whatever reason.

 

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