My thoughts on Catwoman #1

I'm relatively late to the DC party, but thanks to Mike, I've gotten into Batman and the Batman/Catwoman pairing. I've read through some of the older works, and my favorite Batman stories to date are The Killing Joke and Hush. I was fairly excited about the DC reboot because it was finally a good starting point to get into the series I've always wanted to try, but couldn't make heads nor tails out of some of the interweaving storylines. I've been subscribing to some of them via Comixology, and Mike and I are using my account so we can read them together.

This week's sampling was Batman #1 and Catwoman #1. The Batman standalone was superb and is my favorite of the reboot comics to date with Detective Comics #1 following that. I wasn't sure how I'd do with Catwoman. Some of her standalone stuff is good, but I found Gotham City Sirens to be a bit bland. I do need to seek out the stuff from the 90s that sensitivinferno recommended, but I digress.

I'm a faster reader than Mike, so I wound up finishing Catwoman before he did. I was a bit bored and wrinkled my nose at all of the gratuitous underwear shots. Seriously, am I reading Catwoman or a Victoria's Secret catalog? And don't get me started with how the poor kitties were treated.

Then, I got to the last few pages. I blinked. Then I read it again, then I waited for Mike's reaction.

( Spoilers for the reboot plus discussion about rape and sex and stereotypes )