The 3 star rating is solely because Valentine is a solid writer, and she didn't turn Catwoman into a sex-fueled moron. Also, none of this:Because...ewwww! But did I actually enjoy reading this?No.I yawned my way through the entire thing. And if I never, ever, read another caption quoting letters and/or diary entries from some long-dead female historical figure...it will be too soon.Fuuuuuuk. That was boring! Alright, alright! Let me rephrase that. It was boring to me.This version of Catwoman

(B-) 69% | SatisfactoryNotes: Meaningless filigree, untasty and gristly, all fat to the heart, but thinks itself smart, just low-energy byzantine misery.

I'm going to miss Valentine's run on Catwoman. :(

Catwoman is coming to a crossroads...A crime boss believes Selina is his 'lost' heir, and appoints her the head of the3 families. She tries to do right by Gotham, find an imposter Catwoman, and protect her new family. Will she run when it starts to crumble?

The first volume felt like Valentine was building up to something. But here, as soon as Selina finds out Batman has died, she loses interest in the family. It becomes more about tying in with the current Batman continuity and resetting Catwoman back to her status quo instead of focusing on a satisfying conclusion to this mob drama. There's not much action in the book and overall I found the "machinations" just tedious instead of interesting.

I will not argue that the portrayal of Selina Kyle as a crime boss is both original and intriguing, but the constant back and forth between being an adept and an inept crime boss does begin to wear on the reader.

I never expected Selina Kyle the mob queen to be an engrossing character, but Genevieve Valentine has written a smart political thriller here, with the events of the previous volume playing out into even more surprising double and triple crosses as the Sionis and Calabrese families line up against each other using other families (the Penguin and the Hasigawa clan) as the weapons. The moves and counter-moves are occasionally shocking, and everything that was built up in the previous volume inform...

All of Selina's problems with Catwoman and her place as the head of the Calabrese Family wrap up here. She does have an encounter with the new Batman, if brief, but that only made me curious about his story...Overall, I really miss the Catwoman from the beginning of the New 52 run. Once it became about "crime family" and intrigue, it really just lost my interest. It seems as if Selina is leaving Gotham now, so I look forward to seeing what is next for her character. Kind of recommend...

2.5 stars.I personally just didn't care for this "Catwoman Godfather" storyline. It was a little too confusing and moved very slow. There were just too many talking heads in this volume for me.Now, that being said, it wasn't really that bad, it just wasn't my cup of tea. It was well written, the art was nice, and there was a decent story there if you could avoid boredom during the read. This was one I didn't like, but other readers might.

2.5Still don't like mob boss Selina but this wasn't terrible.

After the last book's spaghetti mess of plot, betrayal and political/crime-family intrigues (including a Deus Ex moment from Penguin - who I guess has a past with Catwoman, but who seemed like a left-field maneuver to pull that story out of the tepid tea it was steeping in), I'm coming in both expecting more of the same and *hoping* Valentine had an end game in mind that pays off all this under-written story meandering. And lo! It sure is nice to see Selina using all her skills to fight this war...

Genevieve Valentine wraps her tale of Catwoman as a crime boss in Gotham City. Selina Kyle needs to make new alliances and shift old ones in order to keep her family on top and safe. It's interesting the role Penguin plays in all of this. He's an unlikely ally of Kyle, but not a surprising one.By the end of the book, there's a lot of blood shed, and a couple new bosses in town, including Selina's erstwhile foe cum lover, Eiko Hasigawa. Plus, Spoiler is in the mix, and it's hard to tell whose sid...

Catwoman: Inheritance picks up where the previous volume left off collecting the next six issues (Catwoman #41–46) of the 2011 on-going series with DC Sneak Peek: Catwoman and collects five interconnecting one-issue stories and one two-issue story.Selina Kyle, Boss of the Calabrese Family, continues to defend her family by facing antagonists in Roman Sionis as Black Mask (Catwoman #41–45, and Divergence: Catwoman), Tatsuo Hasigawa, head of the Hasigawa Yakuza (Catwoman #41–44), James Gordon as B...

Genevieve Valentine completes her year as Catwoman writer with this second volume; I'd call it a second arc, but it's really all just one big story as Selina navigates the Gotham underworld from a very different perspective than usual.Everything hinges around her treatment of the Calabrese family; where she tried to ignore Catwoman and just take on the family side of things before, she now knows that in order to get ahead, she'll have to do both. So we now have Selina, as well as Eiko Hasigawa r...

For starters, this isn’t a slinky, sexy, campy rendering of Catwoman - costumed in a skin-tight purple onesie or leather outfit – cracking her whip, screaming Meoooow(!!!) at the top her lungs and jumping Batman’s bones...Let me get that imagery out of my head and let's move on.Selina Kyle finds herself the head of one of Gotham City’s crime families, trying to navigate the ropes while donning the Catwoman gear in secret. This is a tale of intrigue as Selina tries to play off crime gang against

I think the description of this is incorrect: Valentine's run ends with issue 46, and I can't imagine they'd include #47 (a new story, a new author) in this TPB. I am sad to see Valentine go. Her stories were often too complicated and hard to follow - challenging would be a nice way to put it - but man, can she write. There's a gravity to Catwoman, as well as a poetry, you hardly ever find in comics.

Still more crime noir than anything, but decent art and writing just not that into the story.

Continuing the obsession with interspersed historical quotes and overly muddled storylines, best thnig about it is the words "The End".

I'll admit up front that I jumped right into this one and didn't read the previous books (I blame a sweet deal and my deep love for all things Selina Kyle). So I wasn't entirely familiar with everyone in this twisty-turny story, though I caught on fairly quick.I'll say this: Selina Kyle knows how to weave a web and pull the strings. She's a woman who gets things done, and though her motives are a little dark, her intentions are pure. But of course, everything collapses quick and she's scrambling...

I have no idea why they put Ellen DeGeneres on the cover of this book, but they did... take a look. Anyway, the good part is that it's a pretty good story, pretty fairly illustrated, with a very involved plot pitting various crime families against one another with all manner of duplicitous betrayals and back-stabbing and nefarious machinations, and the characters, though sparsely written, are all well-drawn so that you see their motivations sympathetically for the most part. The bad part is that...