razzatazz's Catwoman #21 - Box Office Poison review

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    Fairly Entertaining

    The first Catwoman series bounced around between Selena acting like a hero and acting like a thief.  In order to show her as the hero of a story, even when she is not a hero, she had to have some different things which she tried to steal other than the usual.  In this issue she is planning on stealing a movie script and selling it to a rival producer.  The issue starts out with a sort of King Kong or Jurassic Park feel to it.  The cast is on a remote island and there is a runaway gigantic robot monster which Selena has to protect everyone from.  This makes for a decent action sequence, but after dealing with the monster we find the real trouble maker on the island is the writer/director of the movie.  He is more interested in the bottom of his bottle and scrubbing the shoot for insurance money than he is for the safety of his cast and crew.  Selena confronts him but as it turns out he has been making up the movie as he went and thus doesn't even have a script to steal (you might think this is a parody of Michael Bay, but the movie predated his directing career.)   I have read, and re-read and re-re-read this entire series numerous times in my life, but despite the fact that there was nothing of great significance for continuity this issue is one of the most memorable of the entire run and here's why: 
     

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    Its one of the few times in comic history that I know of that the main character has changed costumes for the environment they are in.  Not just that, but Selena looks totally amazing in this.  If I were her I would find stuff to steal in jungles just for an excuse to wear this.   Overall, the issue does everything you want out of a one-shot -  a nice easy plot with a couple of action sequences and some witty dialogue.  Despite being released in the mid-90s it also has a decent lasting power.  It could just have easily been an issue from the modern day, especially with its parody of Hollywood.

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