Catwoman: Selina's Big Score

by Darwyn Cooke

Overview

Written and illustrated by Eisner-award-winning storyteller Darwyn Cooke (DC: THE NEW FRONTIER), Batman's original femme fatale, Selina Kyle (aka Catwoman) continues her incredible new adventures, walking a tightrope between a life of crime and the road to redemption! Selina's Big Score finds the feline thief presumed dead, cut off from her fortune and desperate to make a lot of money...fast. When she hears about a mob train full of unmarked cash, she assembles a crew of professionals to assist her in taking it down. She needs the money quick but is she ready for the consequences? Searing crime action, delivered in the acclaimed noir style that only a master of the form like Cooke can deliver.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401290740
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Sold by:	DC Comics
Format:	NOOK Book
File size:	42 MB
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Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Darwyn Cooke is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist and animator. After spending several years as a magazine art director and graphic designer, Cooke switched careers and began working in animation, where he contributed to such shows as BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, SUPERMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES and MEN IN BLACK: THE SERIES. From there, DC Comics approached Cooke to write and illustrate a project that the artist had submitted to the company years earlier: BATMAN: EGO. The critical success of the title led to more freelance work, including the relaunch of the CATWOMAN series with writer Ed Brubaker (which inspired Cooke to write and draw the graphic novel CATWOMAN: SELINA'S BIG SCORE). Cooke then spent several years writing and drawing the ambitious epic THE NEW FRONTIER, a six-issue miniseries bridging the gap between the end of the Golden Age of comics and the beginnings of the Silver Age. He is the writer/artist of BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN and co-writer of BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE.

Editorial Reviews

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. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Adult/High School-Selina Kyle, better known as Catwoman, is down on her luck. Her last job turned out to be a dud, so she reluctantly returns to Gotham looking for something to put her back on her feet. Chantel, a mob moll in search of a better life, provides her with a lead: a train with $24 million heading north for a heroin deal. Selina rounds up a small gang to assist her, including ex-lover Stark, the man who helped her make the switch from prostitution to grand theft. Selina, Stark, and a P.I. assigned to track down the supposedly dead Ms. Kyle narrate the story. The art has strong lines and dramatic color, with a retro vibe. Violence is handled tastefully and Selina's former profession and Chantel's position are treated obliquely. This is pretty much a straightforward noir caper; in fact, Catwoman only appears in a few panels. The main focus is on the woman behind the mask. Teens who liked Ocean's Eleven or similar movies will get a kick out of this novel.-Susan Salpini, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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