Catwoman, Volume 1: Copycats

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Coming off of the wedding of the century to Batman, Selina Kyle stars in an all-new solo series written and illustrated by Eisner Award nominee Joëlle Jones!

The wedding night's barely over, but Catwoman's back on the streets, this time to expose a copycat who's pulling heists around Gotham City. As Selina cracks the whip on her former criminal cohorts, she's attracting unwanted attention from one of Gotham's most dangerous groups. The mob? Nope. Try the GCPD. And as if the Bat-Bride didn't have enough problems, don't miss the debut of an all-new villain determined to make trouble for all nine of Selina's lives.

Fresh off of her run on Batman with superstar writer Tom King, creator Joëlle Jones writes and illustrates this dynamic new series. Collects issues #1-6.

     Even though Catwoman is one of my favorite DC characters, I hadn't read any of her solo comics before this. However, I knew I had to read this run when I saw that it was by Joëlle Jones, whose artwork I absolutely fell in love with in Tom King's Batman. And of course, in regards to the artwork of this volume, I was not disappointed. The dialogue and text is actually somewhat scarce in Copycats, but it works- Jones is just really good at showing movement and telling a story using only pictures.

     As far as the story goes, I probably enjoyed the first two issues better than the later ones because I felt it was building something up...that unfortunately didn't really pull together that well in the end. The villain was truly disturbing, but overall the plot didn't grab me- and coming off from the wedding-that-wasn't, I would have liked something with a bit more of a punch (the way Batman: Cold Days did). There are a couple of moments where you see Selina's inner struggles, but not as much as I would have liked. Overall, it was a somewhat "meh" story lifted up by solid artwork, but they balanced each other out enough I wouldn't necessarily turn down the chance to read any future issues in this series.

I received an ebook copy of this book from netgalley in exchange for my honest review. 

(also, not a comment on the comic itself, but the only download available through netgalley was through adobe digital editions, which was literally the worst app I have ever used in my life, -10/10  would NOT recommend)

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