The art, of course, is gorgeous. But the story is so decompressed. We finally learn what Creel's plan is. Take hold of a Lazurus Pit to save her life and build some sort of zombie army. Selena beats Creel to the Pit and basically watches what happens. We then catch up to her getting "killed" from last issue and see why she entered the Pit.

We get the usual dialog boxes that explain she needs magic and we see her enter a magic club and find out she is visiting Zatanna, who saw her coming. Also, Zatanna drinks manhattens. An unusual choice for a young lady.

While Selena is cooking in the Pit we get a lot of inter dialog about why she left Bruce, but it's nothing new. Watching Selena watch an evil plan go forth is static and really makes her a passive character in her own book. Given her skill set, she could have stopped Creel and Creel's goons.

Watching achieves nothing except for allowing the story to progress. That's bad writing.

Also, since Lazurus Pits grant immortality and are used by a 600-year-old terrorist, one would think they'd be better guarded and that Ra's would also kill anyone even thinking of sniffing around one to use for that person's own purposes. Again, sloppy writing.

The plot moves forward only because people don't do the smart or logical thing. Always a sign of poor writing.

As to Selena's inner musings on her relationshihp with Bruce, again it's tell, not show, and it's just repeating what we already know. The writers (King and Joelle) seem stuck in a loop. Get off the Merry-Go-Round already.

What I liked. I have to admit having Catwoman and Zatanna team up has potential. Paul Dini has retconned Zatanna as having a not-so-secret "Crush" on Bruce/Batman, so having these two characters who love Bruce team up has the opportunity to show interesting character interactions.

It just better not end up being a cat fight. (See what I did there). Seriously, the trope of women not really getting along and sniping at each other is overdone and needs to go away, for the most part. I will concede that sometimes people don't like each other and these people can be women, but this action should be used sparingly.

Or I could be wrong. There's a lot to like in this issue, but there are problems. Also decompression.