Creative Staff:
Story: Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Art: Aneke
Colors: Kelly Fitzpatrick
Letterer: Wes Abbott
What They Say:
Kara’s been betrayed by Catwoman, but Dick Grayson is at her side. Will his help be enough to get her out of a jam?
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
While I’m still getting a handle on the world that is Gotham City Garage and all that it entails I’m definitely enjoying what it’s doing. It’s keeping things moving with a good mix of action and intrigue to it while teasing along smaller bits of character development. Kelly and Lanzing know what they’re trying to accomplish and it’s working well enough, though it leaves me at times wishing for more downtime sequences just to engage in dialogue and backstory material. This iss is like the last in that Aneke is handling the art and that brings about some fun action sequences and some good character designs, particularly when it comes to Catwoman and how she’s presented overall.
This installment largely works two storylines across it that are pretty different but intersect well in their own way. The action component gives us Dick and Kara doing their best to get away from Amazo as it chases them through the desert. It’s not deep or rich here with what it does but it’s fun as they throw a couple of different things at it to try and get away and some amusing sniping from Kara about the electric sticks that Dick uses. Of course, he’s going to try his own way of dealing with things that looks like he’s abandoning her but that doesn’t work out well either. The back and forth is simple and a lot of it is that Kara still hasn’t gotten a handle on who she is or what she’s capable of but I love the ending scene in how she rides back to face the music with her conquest.
The Catwoman side of things is far more intriguing, however, as we see how she deals with Cyborg here. There’s some good dialogue from him about how he ended up in this position with the war that made him key for creating the Gardeners and the like, but also the confirmation that should she remove the (Mother) box from him, it’ll kill him. It’ll take down a lot of what Lex has built along the way but it comes at a cost, one that both of them are willing to pay for the greater fight. I really liked the exchanges between them and the fleshing out that we get but I also really dug the reveal of who Catwoman is in this storyline and the secretive role that she’s playing in order to achieve her own larger goals.
In Summary:
Gotham City Garage has a solid installment here that finishes the two short things that it was working through at the moment and each of them is satisfying. I liked seeing what we got from Catwoman with her goal, how far she’ll go to achieve it, and the secret life she’s also living. At the same time the simple action of what Kara and Dick are up to is fun and I like the way it brings something big into the picture back at the garage where it might help her reputation a bit. The team put in a solid work through and through, though I’m hopeful for more time spent in the dome with richer backgrounds to engage in what this world is like a bit more.
Grade: B
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: DC Comics via ComiXology
Release Date: October 25th, 2017
MSRP: $0.99
