Urgh. After Volume 4 almost rekindled my faith in Ann Nocenti, this final volume of her run puts things right back where they were before. The stories in this volume are all good ideas once again, but executed horribly, with random scene changes, plot threads that are dropped halfway through storylines, and dialogue that always feels as though half of the words are missing and the other half don't make any sense. The volume opens well with a Zero Year story by John Layman, before heading into a

This had, at best, a couple good moments. Mostly I just wanted to be done with this and if I hadn't realized the next volume is taken over by a new writer I'd probably just call it quits with this series. I'll see if the new writer can salvage a plot out of this, but this was all over the place in terms of stories and just felt like a mess.

Thank the Old Ones I’m finally done with all the “New 52” volumes of Catwoman I bought years ago. There were some decent plot ideas in this volume, but Nocenti’s writing just made it hard to understand or follow. I’m pretty sure I don’t have anything else she’s written in my stacks to read.

Meh.(Can we get a new author for this series, please?)*looks at next volume*Hooray, no more Nocenti.

The Zero Year story was okay, the fill-in issue was kinda fun, and the Gothtopia tie-ins were at least readable. But when Nocenti got back to her own stories, it just went off the rails again. Thankfully, the Futures End story at the end was very good.

A miss match of stories, but the Race Of Thieves was ok, so I can round up to a three. However, what the heck was up with Gothtopia? I ran into that in Batgirl too, but no explanation there either! Also, Selina taking over the mob... OK, but HOW did she do it?????? So many issues with this...

I'm glad to see that Ann Nocenti's span on Catwoman ended shortly after these issues. I don't know if its her writing style in toto or just the way she wrote Catwoman, but the volumes of her stories are painful to get through. I'll grant some of it may be outside influence - There are two issues of 'Gothtopia' in this collection that make absolutely no sense, but that may be because of a crossover and not just Nocenti's writing. But the Race of Thieves story isn't much better; the writing feels

This volume of Catwoman had the same problem as the last few volumes: it's too damn confusing! I just have a hard time making sense out of Ann Nocenti's writing, at least her work on Catwoman. It seems to be overly wordy and drags terribly. It feels unending. The art is decent, but not enough to save the confusing story. Only read this if you're a die hard Catwoman fan, otherwise you should probably skip it.

I'm just glad I'm finished with Nocenti's run.

Yeesh! You can tell that Catwoman comics are not doing well when there are no other reviews on goodreads for it! A new writer took over and so the comic is all over the place now. Half the time when comics have different story arcs through out I always wonder if there is a comic out there I missed that had the story ahead of this one. For example, there is a story in here about Catwoman's fall from the head of the crime family in Gotham. When did she even become in charge of it???? I wasn't even...

Seriously, what is this book? A great character thrown into bizarre situations with little explanation and less development. I have, once more, almost no idea to the motivations behind her or anyone around her in this whole series. So strange.

This felt like a departure from the Catwoman I know and love. I found it disjointed and strange, while presenting a Catwoman conflicted with herself. The art is beautiful but I just couldn't get through the whole volume.

Really confusing.

Not great but still tons better than the train wreck that was the last volume.

This collection is bookended in the front by two stories -- a Zero Year tale and a Gothtopia tale -- and in the back by a Future's End one-shot; all of which are pretty decient stories (if you understand how they fit into the bigger continuity). In the middle are six Ann Nocenti stories -- two stand-alones (within the modern continuity) also bookending a 4-part "Race of Thieves " Arc.The art by Paul Oliffe is pretty darn good -- minimal gratuitious hotness (I thought) and sensible but dramatic l...

Though it is a significant step up from the last installment, the quick change in story line without any explanation is quite disconcerting.

(B-) 69% | SatisfactoryNotes: Two-thirds absurd, a total turd, a shameful bottom line, though not all bad, it shines a tad: guest writer parts are fine.

There's about 3 plot lines that are created and dropped all in the space of half a dozen issues. I don't particularly blame all this on Nocenti, though. Gothtopia wasn't her idea. No one could have made Gothtopia work. It was just awful. Then there's Zero Year, which, while it's decently written, it is jarring when placed within this bundle. The problem with this volume isn't the fault of the writer. It is the fault of the editorial, who decide that crossover events like Gothtopia and Zero Year

Catwoman: Race of Thieves picks up where the previous volume left off, collecting nine issues (Catwoman #25, 27–34) of the 2011 on-going series and collects six stories: "Before the Claw Comes Out", "Happiness in a Cold Gun", "The Way of the Cat", "Crash and Grab", "Race of Thieves", and "Remote Life"."Race of Thieves" is a four-issue story (Catwoman #30–33) that has Selina Kyle as Catwoman faces off against several of antagonists or rather fellow thieves in a globe-trotting contest that would g...

Ok, so this book started out ok, but then fell fast. The whole thing felt a little like a filler, actually.I'm guessing the authors hoped the last thing would catch the readers attention, but it just cemented my wish to not keep reading this thing. They had an interesting story line set up in the earlier albums - the whole ''who is Selina Kyle'' story was interesting, but it was never resolved, unfortunately. There were other stories as well, like the whole Batman romance thing, but it just died...