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By Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale (DC Comics)
ISBN: 1-4012-0432-5
Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale continue their continuity reworking shenanigans with this vivid, if lightweight, piece of eye-candy that discloses what Selina Kyle got up to between the end of Batman: The Long Halloween (ISBN: 1-5389-469-6) and Batman: Dark Victory (ISBN: 1-56389-738-5).
Confused, and on the run, Catwoman and the Riddler fly to Italy to escape the wrath of the Gotham City Mob and to track down a new lead into the secret of the slinky one’s (and that would be Selina, OK?) lost and anonymous parentage, only to find themselves co-opted into a major heist whilst trying to avoid being killed by what seems to be Batman’s (other) worst villains.
It’s a stylish homage to Film Noir and Gangster chic, with the odd overtone of late Hitchcock, and readable enough, but lacks the strength and vivacity of the regular Catwoman books, especially those by Brubaker and Stewart, and is not a patch on The Long Halloween.
Such a long-lived and well-rounded character is worthy of more than tinsel and whips, surely?
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