It’s been years since their original series and in teh decades since fans have been clamoring for the return of Gotham’s most famous villainesses. Finally the DC gods have heard their pleas with a 4 issue mini-series.

It was. . . okay.

Now I’m not a regular DC comic reader so maybe there have been updates to the world that I’m not aware of, but this was kinda goofy. I was expecting some dark, hypocritical, ironic humor in doses since they’re villains. Or anti-hero in Catwoman’s case. Something dark and sinister as they plan to take over Gotham or take out their enemies before their enemies take them out.

Instead, they’re each doing their own thing when wild bison and men roleplaying The Most Dangerous Game start to interfere with their lives. Then this other villainess called White Rabbit (or her clone) gets kidnapped so they set off to help her, uncovering some mind-control drink manufactured by Punchline and they save the day in a Wild West satire.

I know not every comic has a grim, world-changing story and that they’re can be some fun. I, for one, love filler comics that hightlight the relationship between the characters and them learning more about themselves. This was just a wild road trip.

Cool if you like that sort of thing, but there wasn’t much character depth or exploration that I usually want from these sort of things.

Also they start beating on Punchline for kidnapping and ensalving people for her human test subjects. Unironically. When Poison Ivy does that all the time? Is it bad because she did it for capitalism? Okay, I can see why the eco-terrorist would take offense to that actually.

The characters just felt off to me. They weren’t too evil, but they weren’t good enough to be antiheroes. It was more like the commodified “bad girl” label corporations like to slap on to things to make the Sirens into some cool, rebel girls instead of hardcore bad guys.

Also the art started out nice and detailed by Matteo Leo, and Daniel Hillyard but then got switched out for Ro Stein which looked more like a lost Lumberjanes comic. Which describes the whole tone of the book. Maybe they should ahve stuck with him so I’d know what sort of story I’d be getting into.

2 stars.