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Catwoman:
The
Replacements
Will
Pfeifer,
David
Lopez,
Alvaro
Lopez
DC
Comics
$17.99/$14.99
(Paperback)
****
(out
of
five)
One
of
the
most
powerful
forces
of
nature
is
the
ferocity
of
a
mother
protecting
her
young.
That makes it something awesome to see what happens when a couple of crooks try to come between Catwoman and her new kitten.
One of the most shocking revelations of DC Comics’ 2006 One Year Later event, which saw series fast forward 365 days and take their heroes and heroines to very different places, was that Selina Kyle, A.K.A. Catwoman is now a mommy.
On top of that, Selina has recruited her friend Holly to be the new female feline hero for the streets of Gotham City and she’s being targeted both for revenge by a killer and investigated by the cops for murder — both for Selina’s actions over a year ago.
When the killer and his accomplice find out where Selina lives and take her baby girl hostage they learn the lessons of nature the hard way. But after already committing one act of vengeance, will Selina kill again to protect her child and her secrets?
Oh yeah, and just who is that baby’s daddy?
Thanks to writer Will Pfeifer and artists David and Alvaro Lopez, Catwoman is definitely one of the most intriguing One Year Later titles and very much worth picking up in this collection.
PVP
Goes
Bananas
Scott
Kurtz
Image
Comics
$12.99
US
(Paperback)
****
PVP
may
be
one
of
the
funniest
web
comics
around,
but
there
is
also
a
much
deeper
side
to
it.
Oh sure, there’s video game, sci-fi and pop culture gags galore, but above all, PVP is about teaching readers to watch out for the dangers in the world.
This fourth collection of the monthly Image Comics series, for example, warns of the perils of the flirty-ness of your girlfriend’s (sometimes hotter) sister, the risks of growing a big, fat moustache and how caffeine, no matter how much fun it is being up 22 hours a day, is a drug.
In between all those informative allegories, creator Scott Kurtz manages to pack in enough gaming geek gags, sexual snickers and gas-related guffaws ...[next page]
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