{"id":576,"date":"2007-07-02T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T14:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=576"},"modified":"2007-08-24T08:31:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T08:31:46","slug":"catwoman-the-movie-other-cat-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/02\/catwoman-the-movie-other-cat-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Catwoman: The Movie &#038; Other Cat Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/catmovie.jpg\" alt=\"Catwoman: The Movie &amp; Other Cat Tales\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Various (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-991-3<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re one of the six people who saw the truly abysmal <strong>Catwoman<\/strong> film: Sorry, no refunds.<\/p>\n<p>If you bought the movie adaptation comic, here it is again, and even the tremendously gifted Chuck Austen can&#8217;t make sense of the silly, silly tale of corporate dogsbody Patience Philips, murdered by her cosmetician boss and revivified by the Cat Goddess to seek revenge. Artists Tom Derenick and Adam DeKraker are competent too, and worth looking at, anywhere but here.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed the other volume designed to cash in on this film (<strong>Catwoman: Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale<\/strong> ISBN 1-84023-833-X) but I cannot understand the thinking behind this volume. It also includes one of the many origins of the Selina Kyle incarnation (from <strong>Catwoman<\/strong> #0 1994) and two of her later revamps from her current comic series (issues #11 and #25).<\/p>\n<p>Three such disparate and recent inclusions must surely be confusing to the movie-going purchaser who doesn&#8217;t know or care about two different Catwomen and this filler must already be known to or ignored by the comic reading audience. Surely they&#8217;re not just here as padding, like the sketches by comic superstar Jim Lee who was invited to draw Halle Berry on the set of the film? Nor to justify such a high price tag for a book reprint of a magazine still gathering dust on most comic store&#8217;s new comics racks?<\/p>\n<p>Nah!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1992, 2002, 2004 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Various (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84023-991-3 If you&#8217;re one of the six people who saw the truly abysmal Catwoman film: Sorry, no refunds. If you bought the movie adaptation comic, here it is again, and even the tremendously gifted Chuck Austen can&#8217;t make sense of the silly, silly tale of corporate dogsbody Patience Philips, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/02\/catwoman-the-movie-other-cat-tales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catwoman: The Movie &#038; Other Cat Tales&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catwomman","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-9i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}