You'd think taking three of the sexiest Batman villains of all-time and placing them in a book together would be a dream come true. There is promise for Gotham City Sirens to turn into a guilty pleasure book, but it's going to have to start feeling like more than just a supervillain version of Charlie's Angels.

Catwoman is lamenting her recent problems, which include Jason Todd kicking her butt, Hush doing damage to her heart, and needing a special potion from Zatanna just to recover properly; even then, however, she's still not up to snuff and even gets taken down by a new thug named Boneblaster. After being saved by Poison Ivy, Catwoman finds herself in some new digs and looking to join with her gal pals so that they can all watch each other's back during these hard times Gotham is going through.

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Catwoman has always been one of those characters that walk the borderline between doing what is right and being an outright villain. You'd think joining up with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn would instantly make her evil, but it seems to a degree that she's mostly keeping her enemies (somewhat) close and using them to help her while she still tries to recover from Hush removing her heart.

One of the main problems with the book's first issue is that it's almost impossible to figure out exactly how the book will play from issue to issue. The trio doesn't engage in any crimes unless you count how they procured their first residence and the slight attack on Zatanna, so will we be watching them commit heinous crimes of evil? The ladies fight a new throwaway villain named Boneblaster, but did they do that to clean the streets up or just because they were mad with someone trying to take them out and looking to claim a piece of the city as their own? Will the ladies be crime fighters and heroes? A mix of both extremes?

Besides the dialogue and overall confusion of where this book is heading, I couldn't stand the artwork at all for the most part. You've got three sexy ladies, all of whom are either scantily clad or wearing tight hugging uniforms, and the best you can do is this? I'm not saying make them a bunch of sexy posing strippers every frame, but some of Guillem March's artwork was just bad. March does a great job at drawing (especially faces) when people or objects are viewed up-close, but shots depicting characters from a further distance feature hardly any detail at all. The worst offenders is a panel shot where six barely there lines represent the features of Selina's face and the way Harley seemed to go from wearing no lipstick to lipstick in only one panel difference.

I'm intrigued at the potential to give the series another issue or two to hook me, but as of this issue it's just not thrilling me and unless something changes I won't be forking my money over to it for long.

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