Catwoman #2

So, I picked up #2 of this series to see if th etrend from #1 continued for the rest of the series. It definitely continues into this issue. The first 3 pages are the morning after of the Batman/Catwoman one-night stand, although I'm not sure one-night is accurate since they've done this before. Like with the last issue, these 3 pages were really unnecessary to the story as all they did was show that Batman cares about Catwoman at som elevel and Catwoman cares about him at some level. This is something they could have shown in something less than a sexual escapade. It's also a real shame because behind all of these sexual escapades that they are writing Catwoman into as well as the whole distinguishment of Selina as an apparent bimbo who shakes it for any one cute that walks by including Bruce Wayne who she does not know is Batman in the new DC Universe, although he does know she is Selina Kyle.
Other than the cat and mouse (excuse the pun) game that Selina and Bruce play at the charity auction episode in the book, there is actually an excellent story going on in this series. All you have to do is see past the soap opera style woman they have made Selina into. A situation that I don't get, again, because I recognize that judd Winick is an awesome writer who shouldn't need to resort to sex to sell this book. Even more so, the sex scenes really have nothing to do with the story so far...nothing at all. They are no more than grautitious sex, which  as Laura Hudson mentioned in her review of the first issue does not make Selina Kyle/Catwoman into a strong, independent woman as Winick may think it does. Depicting women as sex crazed nymphomaniacs who will jump into the sac with people to show they have feelings or that they are as liberated as men just makes them into sex crazed nymphomaniacs. Personally, I don't think it really depicts male characters as anything other than scumbags who don't know how to commit to a relationship either. It definitely doesn't make them into strong male characters. All, in all, I just hope that now that Winick has truly revealed who the true bad guy is in Catwoman, that he will move on and write the story that is there and seems like it might be an awesome story.
I'm still not sure I would recommend this book to anyone, and I especially recommend you not buy it for anyone under the age of 16. Hopefully, next month, we'll get to see the story that Winick is truly capable of and Selina Kyle/Catwoman will move back to the character she is supposed to be instead of being a soap opera tart.

Thanks for reading.