{"id":739,"date":"2007-07-27T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=739"},"modified":"2007-08-24T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T08:30:54","slug":"catwoman-relentless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/27\/catwoman-relentless\/","title":{"rendered":"Catwoman: Relentless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/cwrelent.jpg\" alt=\"Catwoman: Relentless\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Ed Brubaker<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Cameron Stewart<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-84023-821-6<\/p>\n<p>The latest revamping of the Catwoman continues in this third volume, collecting issues #12-19 of her comic series plus the <strong>Secret Files<\/strong> one-shot. The transition from slinky villainess to bad-girl super-thief to anti-hero continues with her making one district of Gotham City her own protectorate, earning the enmity of crime-lord Black Mask.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, when you annoy a gangster he comes after not only you, not only all your loved ones but even anybody who might have stood next to you on a bus once, and Selina Kyle has to defeat a ruthless and obsessive foe determined to make her an object lesson to all.<\/p>\n<p>This is work that avoids the formula writing of many comic series, and the deceptively simple art style hones that storytelling until it&#8217;s like a sleek ice-pick for the eyes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but in a good way. Brubaker and Stewart have fully adapted a classic Noir sensibility to the flash and dazzle of super-hero comics and the resulting feel of grimy authenticity permeates these stories. If this had been the stuff of the film, we&#8217;d all still be sitting in those gum smeared seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 By Ed Brubaker &amp; Cameron Stewart (DC Comics) ISBN: 1-84023-821-6 The latest revamping of the Catwoman continues in this third volume, collecting issues #12-19 of her comic series plus the Secret Files one-shot. The transition from slinky villainess to bad-girl super-thief to anti-hero continues with her making one district of Gotham City her own &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/27\/catwoman-relentless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catwoman: Relentless&#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-739","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-bV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}