Hate the grim dark Miller world it is set in (so dull) but this manages to spin a good story out of it. Love the shaved head Selina too.

Reasonable story and adequate artwork throughout, but really it goes on a bit too long for what it is - pretty much solely a linear Catwoman story. There are plenty of redundant panels, the storyline is too seedy for children yet not convoluted enough for adults. I almost liked it, but not quite.

★★★½

Tenho um sério problema com a continuidade de quadros nesse quadrinho, eles não são tão bem pré estabelecidos e ficam um pouco confuso, mas é um grande trabalho artístico de Joe Brozowski, alguns quadros e cenas são lindíssimas. Embora seja apressada, é uma origem bem interessado e muito bem apresentada. Catwoman é goat demais não tem como

I loved reading this. A quintessential Batman and Catwoman story, in a gritty crime noir take, dripping with 1980s Gotham City nostalgia. Clearly influential for the modern Catwoman character; in Tim Burton’s “Batman Returns” film and the animated series, as well as how Selina and Bruce’s relationship is now written in the comics.

It was a good idea to expand the story of Catwoman from "Batman Year One". But the whole creative team was a huge disappointment. The writing. The pencils. The colors. All of it. What a wasted chance.

As far as origin stories go, it's not the worst. Selina's always been a compelling character, but I've never paid much attention to her outside of Batman & Birds of Prey titles. This was the first-ever Catwoman solo run, and while it isn't perfect, it's a good start.

Overlapping and continuing beyond Batman Year One, we have here the development of Catwoman as well as her complicated relationship with Batman. The story had several interesting moments, but was otherwise unremarkable.

Interesting story, but slow. The artwork is only so-so. The best part was recognizing the crossover to Miller's Year One.

My 2nd comic book! So cool! Melia Glubka is my teacher ❤️

(Zero spoiler review) 3.25/5
A solid if unspectacular series debut to one of my favourite characters. released within the absolute heyday of comics (in my opinion). The late eighties were truly were the golden years. And though this one doesn't exactly add anything of significance to the time period, it was still imbued with much of what made that time period great. The art was quintessentially late 80's even if it wasn't even that great. The heavy ink and simple colours were lovely to stare at. The idea was fine, even if the execution wasn't pulling up trees so to speak. Gotham was really coming into it's one during that time, still transitioning from the cheese of decades past to the dark and dirty, disheveled city we all know and love. There is a maturity to the script that is sorely lacking these days, with the seedy underbelly of Gotham's east end forming a wonderful backdrop.
It's not so easy to find these days, although if you can, it's well worth a read. I wouldn't go dropping any serious cash on it in the secondary market though. 3.25/5


OmniBen.

This story takes place concurrently with Batman: Year One but is not on the same level story-wise and art-wise. It actually uses entire pages and panels from Year One to expound on Selina's story during those same events. I felt the story was convoluted and jumped around a bit too much; it didn't have a nice flow to it. Part of the problem is that the art style and characters are vastly different from Year One, so by inserting those exact panels instead of having this artist redraw them in their own style, it's just jarring. The character models for Selina in particular are VASTLY different, she's practically unrecognizable as being the same character. The story does add a little to her origin as the prostitute with a heart of gold (and a love of it, too), but not so much that I would list this as an essential Catwoman title.

3.75/5

Bueno, en esta novela gráfica se la presenta a Selna Kyle como una prostituta propiamente dicha (como aparece en Año Uno de Batman). El argumento es interesante, aunque en algo (lo de su hermana sobre todo) me hizo acordar al tomo que leí de la Gatúbela de Ed Brubaker (que es mucho mejor).

No sé, me pareció una historia como medio fuerte y algunas escenas están muy buenas, pero por más boluda que suene diciendo esto, leyendo algunas partes y diálogos entre ella y su chulo me sentí re mal. Por lo que yo vi de Gatubela en la vida, nunca es una prostituta atada a un hombre así... aunque, qué sé yo. Según vi, hubo versiones peores y otras más leves, así que esta sería como un intermedio entre las dos, creo.

Es buena para dar como un "comienzo oficial" a ella como gatubela (en ocasiones gata), aunque en algunas partes se me hizo excesivamente larga y pesada. Pero la sensación que me deja en general es buena, bastante, y sobre todo la última parte, cuando aparece Batman.
Seguramente siga con la Gatúbela de Ed Brubaker, de la cual ya leí el tercer tomo por equivocación, así que voy a tratar de leerlas bien en orden y ver qué me parecen, porque la que leí me gustó mucho.