Catwoman #4

The Good: Guillem March does a great job making everything in this series look great. The emotionas are intense, the sexy women are sexy, and the panel layouts have a sense of fun about them. Everything flows very nicely in terms of panels. He also puts such excellent energy into every motion. The rum bottle getting kicked, Catwoman leaping from buildings, the blur of her whip, etc. Plus there's a lot of nice detal in everything.
There's a lot of very tense emotional stuff in this issue, Catwoman has a lot of awkward facial expressions and body positionings because she's unsure of herself. She completely wrecked everything by relying on someone, but she had always kept herself grounded by relying on someone. Reliance was actually a subconsious way she kept herself in control of her adrenaline. Now she's letting loose with her addiction even more uninhibited than before. She goes on a wild robbing spree, thinking nothing of consequences, and determined to do things completely alone. She gets overconfident as she puts her common sense into the back of her mind, common sense being something tied into her instincts for a maternal figure to hold her back, even if a tiny bit. Everything in her emotions is tied together, and when she cuts off certain parts she deems detrimental, it cuts off sections that are actully essential. But Catwoman's distressed, I mean, her closest friend has died and its nearly all her fault. She tries to avoid the depression of causing her friend's death along with the unconscious desire to replace her by stealing as much as she can as quick as she can.
In the end, Catwoman gets involved in a huge threat that's way beyond her normal repetoire. It's not something cosmic, but it still places her far beyond what you'd normally expect for a series like this. It's something way out of the range of normal gritty street crime, even far beyond Bone. It's not so far out it seems stupid, but its just enough to catch you completely off guard, and creates some heart pumping tension for the issue's finale.
 
The Bad: The pacing of this issue feels a little rushed, we've got three different plots competing for attention, and they kind of step on each other's toes. Plus, we just kind of get mentions of Catwoman's stealing, but not as much actual sight of it. Something just feels a little impersonal about this issue.
I'm not sure what the whole point of introducing the other childhoo friend is. I kind of got some of it, but the introduction seemed a little forced. 
In Gotham the police doesn't believe seventeen roberies can't be related? IN FREAKING GOTHAM? The damn posterchild city for bizarre crime?
There wasn't as much depth in this issue, I wasn't able to make a full essay out of this issue because there wasn't nearly as much 'meat' to it as the first three issues.
Upon first reading, the end of this issue blew me away. Then I went for a second glance, and I realized the first page just about ruins the otherwise epic cliffhanger. I generally hate it when a story gives us moments before a climax, and then spend the rest of the story building back to that moment. It's a stupid cliche, makes stupid spoilers, and all too often its done badly. This is no exception.
 
In Conclusion: 3.5/5
While there was some pretty good depth and subtlety about Catwoman's emotions, there was a werid lack of connection to the tiular character. The entire issue went by in a bit of a haze. It's a this point I'm afraid Winick may have lost the spark of genius he hit when this series began now that his first arc is wrapped up. But it's only one issue so far, and it's not a complete miss, so I'm not really too concerned yet.