I couldn't finish this book. Minor spoilers below.As a relative newbie to Katana (I'm only aware of her from the Arrow TV show and the Suicide Squad movie) I was confused about why she had to move to San Francisco to take a look at the tattoos on a girl that supposedly told the future. A fair amount of people know about this girl, so if she's so valuable, why isn't she guarded better?Also, the art just wasn't for me - the lines on people's faces (presumably to show texture?) made everyone look o...

Let this be my testament, my journey into pain.This collection is like no one had a clue from one page to the next what was going on - like when you get so high that your mind stops the illusion that thoughts have a continuity or flow to them, and they just show up for no particular reason and end even more suddenly. Many times while reading this I wondered if that side-story had any relationship with the pages or issue before, and if they would eventually lead somewhere. I’d say it was about 50...

I really wanted to like this... can I also rate 0 stars? :-/

Generally good artwork with a few gaffs. Nearly unintelligible storyline with bizarre dialogue and odd scene shifts; very little to keep the reader involved in this title. If there was character growth, I really didn't understand it, and feel this reduces the stature of Katana among the superheroes of the DC Universe/Multiverse.

Let's get the positives out of the way first; there are some very striking frames within the story, standing on their own. It's too bad the story around them is borderline incoherent, and told with horrible dialogue (pretentious, borderline misogynist, and trying too hard and failing), and horrible characterizations. It seems that the Katana featured here is an insecure lost woman who has a grudge against the world, and not the master swordswoman from previous incarnations. She manages to destro...

Honestly, I am so pissed off at DC for cancelling this after only 10 issues.I found Katana to be one of the most well-written and fleshed out characters in the New 52 universe. It's just a matter of the art that made me shudder. It's obvious DC didn't have any faith in this from the beginning, letting various artists jump on board. So, not only was the art annoyingly inconsistent, but there were several pages that were just badly drawn. When I read a comic from one of the Big 2, I expect a certa...

(C+) 65% | Almost SatisfactoryNotes: Draining incongruity and dialogue-fatuity, can't settle on a foe, changes purpose on the go: death by utter ambiguity.

Break it apart, throw all the pages in the air, read them in whatever order you pick them up. It will probably make more sense and be more entertaining. How it lasted even 10 issues is amazing.

I've been using the New 52 series to jump into some of the more established comic series like Wonder Woman and Batwoman. I really enjoyed both of those.Katana was crap. I can deal with some comic book cheesiness (her name is Katana, her villains include Sickle, Coil, and Creeper) and I'm used to putting up with some less than feminist artwork in comics (her go-to move is to high kick and flash her crotch at the bad guys), but this is just bad.The artwork is bad. I can't identify characters by si...

I'm trying to make my way through every single series that was part of DC's New 52 universe. This series takes place in the 4th wave of books that they rolled out. I probably wouldn't have gotten around to tis series yet, but since the Suicide Squad movie comes out in a couple of days, Comixology.com and the DC app are having a sale on Suicide Squad titles and products that contain individual members of the team. This is one of the things on sale right now. So, I got it at a good price.I've read...

I was supremely disappointed by Katana volume 1. I had hoped that DC will create a character to rival their greats like Catwoman and Wonder Woman but instead they delivered a Japanese woman with a mixed up history trying to avenge a man.what's bad about this one, is the storyline. The artwork and colouring are incredible but Ann Nocenti's writing is juvenile and lacking flow. There are too many characters and they are very hard to distinguish between. I also felt like I didn't get enough backgro...

Wow. The art...The writing...It's all so...BAD. I...I can't even...sigh. I had high hopes for the character. I enjoyed her in Birds of Prey, but this...This isn't that character. sigh

Jesus Christ! No more Nocenti.

Bullet Review:WHAT THE F$&@ DID I JUST READ??!*brains melts*WORST COMIC EVAH.Full Review:Just contemplating writing a review for this...this...pile of slick paper...gives me a migraine. I've been avoiding coming back to this non-review because I just don't even have the words to say how GORRAM AWFUL this is.Let's start with the cover blurb. THANK GOD for cover blurb authors! Had he or she not written those few paragraphs on the back, I would have been LOST in the middle of the jungle in my skivv...

I really wanted to like this book. I think the character is interesting, and I was really looking forward to seeing her in her own title after Birds of Prey.But the artwork is awful and inconsistent - at times the characters don't even look human. Katana, out of makeup, changes appearance from chapter to chapter, and it's no wonder as there are fifteen artists listed at the front.It's like they didn't even want this series to succeed, and now it's dead after only ten issues.

Good grief, this was awful. In every possible way. The plot is vague and never even remotely satisfying. Katana's goals change every issue, and her personality and voice are weirdly inconsistent. She can go from formal and morose to casual and flippant, from one word balloon to the next. Not that either mode is particularly well written. Aside from the plot being a total mess, the ideas are also pretty bad. The Creeper as Japanese demon (with a conveniently English name, whatever) just doesn't w...

I like Katana as a character. I liked her in the Outsiders working with Batman. I liked her in Justice League of America. I liked her in the Birds of Prey. (I've not ready any of the Suicide Squad books, but I would probably like her in them as well.)You owuld think that I would like her in her own book, and by like I mean love. But I just like her.If you want a look at Katana's backstory, this is the book for you. But it has little impact on the New 52 and is almost entirely it's own thing.(vie...

*SPOILERS AHEAD!* Buying this, I was excited. Though I knew that it was canceled after 10 issues, Katana was a character I had previously enjoyed in both the Outsiders and the Beware the Batman series. The cover was great, which was what caught my attention initially, followed by happiness because my local bookstore carried it. Her new design is great! I got this as a birthday present for myself, by the way. The story was wobbly at first, mostly the first issue because the introduction was slow

Hmm. I enjoyed the Asian influences of this. There is some artwork in here I appreciated as well. This is basically a revenge tale and I am not really into revenge tales. I did find this a little confusing as to what was happening and it was grisly.This isn't really my cup of tea.

I wanted to like this a lot more than I actually did, but I found the story to be overly disjointed and almost completely lacking in decent exposition or setup.I suspect that I may have liked it more if I hadn't lived in Japan.