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Catwoman #7
Bridget Haines |
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Disguises (Part2 of 4) |
| Cover Date: |
July 2002 |
| Story: |
Ed Brubaker |
| Pencils: |
Brad Rader |
| Inks: |
Cameron Stewart & Rick Burchett |
| Colors and Separations: |
Matt Hollingsworth |
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Synopsis: (WARNING! SPOILERS!)
This continuation of last issue begins with
Holly, shot in the shoulder,
in peril for
her life by dirty cops. Catwoman
arrives
in the nick of time to rescue
her junior
parter, giving the two officers
trips to
lala land and headaches for the
morning.
As the real cops close in, Selina
scoops
up Holly and takes her to Dr.
Thomkins clinic.
When Leslie goes to inject Holly
with a pain
killer, Selina stops her, revealing
she knew
Holly was a recovering addict.
Leslee will
have to work on Holly without
anesthetic.
Detective Allen has been assigned
to investigate
the rash of deaths of undercover
cops in
the last few months in the east
end.
Slam Bradley awakens to find
Selina in his
room. She needs his help finding
out about
the crooked cops who shot Holly.
Amid some
mild flirting he agrees to help
her.
The crooked cops discuss Allen's
presence,
while another non-crooked one
goes to meet
Slam and Selina and feed them
the dirt. Seems
a while back, they had a witness
to a lot
of seeming gangland murders,
which might
have been cops cutting the gangs
down instead
of the gangs cutting down each
other. The
witness, however, apparently
hung himself,
and orders came down from on
high to drop
the investigation. The cop thinks
there are
some of them working on the payroll
of someone
who wants control of the east
end drug trade.
Holly is recovering, but the enws then displays
Holly as wanted for the murder of the undercover
cop.
Analysis:
Cover:  (1 of 5 cowls)
More of this Paul Pope crap. Can someone
please fire whoever contracted this guy to
ruin THREE covers now? Please?
Story: (4 of 5 cowls)
The potential I saw in the last installement
of this arc is beginning to be fulfilled.
We have a recognizable GCPD figure in Crispus
Allen (Renee Montoya's oft partner). We also
have the return of Slam Bradley, who I really
like. He's a great character, and a good
foil for Selina. We also had some more of
Leslie, who I always like to see. This helped
to place the concept more fully in the Gotham
mythos, and although the dirty cop angle
still smacks of Bludhaven, at least we're
seeing it as being more a Gotham thing in
this arc.
Artwork: (3 of 5 cowls)
I can see what it is Rader is doing now.
He's slowly, a step at a time, wbeaning people
off Cooke's much too cartoony style into
a still comic-ish, still clean, but more
realistic style of his own. It's beginning
to appeal to me. He still has some more to
do to make me a fan, but mostly I think the
fault lies now in the flat coloration. It's
too sunday comic strip-ish for me. Get some
highlight and shadow colors in there will
ya?
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