Overall, this is a great issue of one of the better limited series out there. Read Full Review

Clay Mann delivers some spectacular visuals throughout this issue. The style is beautiful and both the action and character moments are visually compelling. Read Full Review

This series has always been good, but it wouldn't be nearly as effective if King wasn't this great at showing what drives his characters in these three different timelines. Read Full Review

Fine art elevates this flawed but deeply interesting story. Read Full Review

DC Comics' BATMAN/CATWOMAN series is showing us the complicated nature of Selina Kyle. She's a hero, she's a villain, she's lonely, she's surrounded by those who love her. But above all, she's an interesting, three dimensional, human character. This creative team is masterfully turning this woman of many contradictions into the star of the show. Read Full Review

Batman/Catwoman #6 is one of the stronger issues so far given its better balance between thematic musings and overt action. The plotting is still a little haphazard, though re-reading previous issues does help connect some narrative dots, but each scene in a vacuum is compelling and well rendered by the art team. Read Full Review

Tom King and Clay Mann continue to be on a roll with Batman/ Catwoman #6. The creative team really hit their storytelling stride and the series has some direction. The sudden scene changes and the Joker/ Catwoman friendship derail from the enjoyment a little, but this is still one of the strongest issues yet. Read Full Review

The trouble with a multi-tiered story is one can be very strong, another has the requisite amount of creepiness and the other seems detached from everything else playing out. King has some clever ideas, but it's starting to feel like this would so much cleaner with a different storytelling approach. Read Full Review

Batman/Catwoman is so close to being a great series. It is unfortunate that one major aspect of this series narrative is holding it back from reaching its full potential. Because as Batman/Catwoman #6 show, Tom King and Clay Mann have a lot of great character arcs to be invested in. If they can just fix the flow of how the three different time periods compliment one another the second half of Batman/Catwoman could be truly special. Read Full Review

While the art remains something I love in this series, the story is just chock full of nonsense that doesn't want to do anything but make Catwoman look crappy (IMO) and while that may change down the line, we're halfway through this book and nothing about it really feels all that thought out or compelling in the long run. I can only hope that things change for the second leg of this story because amazing art will only take you so far. Read Full Review

This deep into Batman/Catwoman, it's fairly obvious that the only thing this series really has working in its favor is the art Read Full Review

Nothing special, just a bit of camp on all sides. Especially when it comes to confronting Selina's need for a little company. As well as how it's at risk when Helena confronts her mother about her murder of the Joker.

Im a big fan of Tom King's work, but this story is not working, sadly. Claymann art, in other hand, is amazing.

I wasn't a fan of this issue. We are now on a Bi-Monthly schedule with this book w/ the master Liam Sharp taking over for issues 7-9. The schedule for this book has really damaged the pacing of this book as a whole.

Amazing art, love seeing the Phantasm, really don't like anything else going on.

I really can't believe that we're halfway through this series, and it's just... not doing anything? The three timeline thing is destroying any sort of pacing this title would have, I assume. I just... am perplexed. I don't even think this is a bad issue, really. I just don't think it's anything at all. It's just a null and void in my mind. Hence the five out of ten.

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Robin - Aug 17, 2021

Exactly, and some characters don't even feel like the characters especially Batman.

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It's honestly a shame Clay Mann's art is wasted on this book. This series is just filler and non-engaging dialogue. This series has some serious sluggish issues

The 3 is for the art.

To be fair to King, all his weaknesses are on display. Letting public domanin writing do the heavy lifting? Check. (See use of Christmas carols). Pretty art surrounded by few words, check. Having characters both not talk about emotions while keeping other characters in the dark? Check. Have action be there but not actually contribute to the forward momentum of the story? Check. Have an assumed previous knowledge of characters be pivotal to the understanding of the story? Check.

This story is terrible. We are halfway through this 12 issue run and we know nothing. Bats is dead and Cats killed the Joker in the future. In the past Andrea Beaumont wants to kill the Joker because the Joker killed her son. Bats, of course, won't let that happen. In the present, the Joker and Catwoman are talking about stolen Christmas ornaments and Catwoman asks "Am I a good person?" Why anyone would ask the Joker that is beyond understanding.

This, of course, is another King trope. Characters just sitting around asking am I a good person. This gets tiring. It's also too on the nose. A story that explores that theme shouldn't be explicitly stating "This is the theme." And in order for King to do what he does, he has to have characters act uncharacteristically.

Joker and Catwoman were never friends. The Joker has no friends. The very idea that he would have anything remotely resembling normal social interaction is absurd. It's not the character, and more importantly, it destroys the mystery of the character. It takes the Joker from being an unknowable force of chaos to a mere character with a point of view, a dangerous point of view, but a point of view, nonetheless.

And Selena killing the Joker in the future? So what? He apparently was hiding out in a Florida trailer park for retirees and had grandchildren? Huh? Again, not the Joker. I don't even have the time to explain how stupid that is. But let me say that treating the Joker like a normal character totally misses the point of the Joker.

And speaking of missing the point of the character. Can anyone tell me about Andrea Beaumont? Of Course not. King has explained nothing about her. All we know comes from a 28-year-old cartoon. If you haven't seen that, you're screwed. Her character is just there, and King again is letting other writers do the heavy lifting. He's done nothing.

And his great moral conundrum of do we kill the Joker. It's been done to death. The answer is of course you do. No matter how many times you lock him up, he gets out and kills dozens or thousands more. To keep him alive is to condemn innocents to death. Keeping him alive because it's wrong to kill is vanity. But he sell comics and writers apparently like stories where he kills thousands. I don't, I like the battle of wits side of the story. But that gets lost in the futile "we have to up the stakes and I am too poor of a writer to actually write an intelligent battle of wits, so I will kill thousands and have Bats virtually stumble across the Joker and have a punch out where the Joker taunts Batman before getting clobbered."

This writing is terrible. And having future Selena put on an old Catwoman costume that is unflattering to a senior citizen and ask her daughter to fight crime isn't the plot point that King seems to think it is.

King gets to write future Helena Wayne and then tells us nothing about her other than she's gay, because of course she is. He's woke. I am going to sound like one of those guys, and if you condemn me, fair enough. But you can't have a character be gay and then do nothing with that. Explain the point of view, show how being gay matters and doesn't matter. How being gay informs the character's world view and how the character handles this fact in a world where being gay is hard because of old goats like me, who say they are enlightened but could probably use a good talking to. If you don't do that, and if you're story doesn't allow you to do that, then it's just woke window dressing. No points from me.

One of the big themes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier MCU show was about being black. The Falcon/Cap is a black character, not a character who is black. These details matter.

I could go on. A terrible issue in a terrible mini-series.

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People who like King (and hate that I don't) always ask me why do I keep reading his books. It's simple: I don't know how but he always manages to convince the best artists to work with him. Case in point: Clay Mann. Guy is a great artist but both of his books with King are just atrocious: HiC and this one. Again, Batman is just really pathetic here, it's like King revels in constantly humiliating him and Selina's dialogue is ten levels of cringe. Also, her fighting at an old age in a costume is just ridiculous. I want to rate this higher for Mann but I just can't.

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Merlyn - Aug 17, 2021

Mann is not doing the next three issues? Didn't know that. Sharp's good too, I guess I'm okay with that but yeah, that kinda sucks.

SenpaifenixJäger - Aug 17, 2021

Grandma made me laugh a lot, I didn't expect to see such stupidity and she also put on a cape! I don't know what they smoked to make this number, maybe patchouli.

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Same crap, different issue #

The book is absolute trash, The dialogues are cringe and bad. Batman isn't even interesting and sometimes doesn't even feel like batman anymore. At the end bruce showing up to Selina is the stupidest scene in the issue as basically batman is now Selina's puppet.

Tom king is the writer who is making me hate Catwoman and Bat/Cat in general because this feels much more like some cheap fan fiction who someone wrote without much thought just for the sake of it.

No please, what about grandmother-cat-robin? This King has outdone himself, this is not an aberration, this is nonsense, completely ridiculous.