Catwoman: Selina's Big Score (Catwoman) - Softcover

Matt Hollingsworth; Darwyn Cooke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840237333 ISBN 13: 9781840237337

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

A mob train full of unmarked cash.A crew of professional thieves to take it down.Selina Kyle figured it was the perfect crime.But Selina was wrong.Dead wrong.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Filled with color, camp and melodrama, Cooke's latest is a feast for fans of Catwoman and comic book crime noir. The book sheds light on the series' recent redesign and on Catwoman's shift from superthief to superhero. Forced to fake her own death and disappear, Selena Kyle (Catwoman's secret identity) now needs cash. In the book's explosive opening, Selena resurrects herself after a failed international heist and returns to Gotham in dire financial straits. Swifty, a pawnbroker buddy, tips her off to a Mafia cash transfer using a Montreal-bound train; they plan a new heist that could mean millions. The job requires Selena to reconnect with Stark, her criminal mentor, love of her life and a man she betrayed long ago. After she reignites the flame between herself and Stark, the two assemble a crew and figure out a way to loot the train, all the while dodging Slam Bradley, a pesky old-school private eye who's figured out that the late Selena Kyle isn't quite dead. Cooke offers a clever and complex narrative, weaving flashbacks to Selena's past with riveting action. Cooke's dialogue is a hoot, witty and impressively humane for an over-the-top hardboiled crime yarn. Hollingsworth's full color illustrations are spectacularly stylish-Catwoman has never been so sexy. His bold line is gestural, suggesting form and mood with a vivid, abbreviated authority that captures Gotham City's dark underworld or Las Vegas's gaudy casino life with impressive command. Whether she's pouting at Stark or jumping from a moving train, the new Catwoman is a sight to behold.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

DC's new Catwoman series, featuring a revamp of this Batman villain by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Cooke, has drawn a lot of favorable attention from comics fans. Here, Cooke acts as both writer and artist on a prequel to the new series. Out of money and presumed dead, Selina Kyle (a.k.a. Catwoman) returns to Gotham City and sets up a daring robbery from the mob-a caper that puts her in touch with her pre-Catwoman past but that doesn't turn out as she intended. Cooke blends the Batman cartoon's style with an edgier sensibility, creating a book with definite crossover appeal to adults and teens. The story's theme of broken trust packs a punch that will keep the reader involved. The trade paperback Catwoman: The Dark End of the Street collects the early issues of the new series, and some events overlap with this volume. While some books in DC's line of $24.95 hardcover graphic novels don't live up to the price, this one is worth it. Recommended, especially for fans of urban superheroes such as Marvel's Daredevil and, of course, Batman.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840237333
• ISBN 13: 9781840237337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96