Catwoman #13 – Review

By: Ann Noncenti (story), Rafa Sandoval (art), Jordi Tarragona (inks), Sonia Oback (colors)

The Story: Who says chess can’t be a rough sport?

The Review: I’ve heard great things about Darwyn Cooke’s Catwoman (which surprises not one bit, having read his amazing DC: The New Frontier), but I never actually read the series.  It’s one of those things I tell myself I’ll get around to, but never do, like downloading those photos from my camera or vacuuming my closet.  So I don’t know exactly what made it so good, but I know this: at least he kept his heroine zipped up.

I always found it troubling that the first thing Judd Winick did when he took over the title was emphasize its sex, violence, and addiction aspects.  Even though I never once opened an issue of the new Catwoman while he wrote it, I, like much of the internet, was also treated to the provocative image of her and Batman in the foreplay of doing it.  Not that there’s anything wrong with that inherently—you can’t be too prudish if you read about robots having sex—but it did indicate that Winick perhaps came at the writing from the wrong angle.