Miss Meow #4: Retail Edition is a comic written by Murphey and Aaron Sparrow, and illustrated by Victor Serra and illustrated by Gaston Zubeldia. Miss Meow heads to space before making her next move while Katfight searches for answers following their last encounter! We have two cat-themed leading ladies: Miss Meow and Katfight. Miss Meow’s colors are pink and silver and she is a mercenary with a good reputation and is looked up to. Katfight is also a mercenary but her color is black and she has a vendetta against Miss Meow. We also get to see Leonidas, a character we’ve seen make appearances in this series and in Deathrage. The story gives us a look at both women as they deal with the aftermath of what transpired in the last issue. We’ll hear a lot of new information and get explanations about what is going on as well as insight into some of these relationships. There is basically no action here; this is a bit like the part in the movie right before something happens. The pacing is steady as there is a bunch of talking with a couple intense moments scattered about. The dialogue is easy to understand with some pretentiousness thrown around. None of these pages are wordy but the amount per page is pretty consistent. This is an issue that builds up towards the next moments in this story while adding some more depth to the characters we already know.

            This is some smooth-looking art with a large amount of colors on display. Many different locations are visited from a space station to the headquarters of the Spartans. The environments are standout for the most part and tend to persist from panel-to-panel. Overall the expression level hovers around average here with most of the heavy-lifting being done by Katfight. Faces are drawn well but are lacking a bit when it comes to smaller details like wrinkles and creases. In spite of this emotions come across nicely. There is some face sameness here but you won’t confuse characters. The outfits here are either space or combat geared except for what Katfight is wearing which is pretty revealing.

            When compared to the Kickstarter Edition this one has smoother looking art and some panel changes. I’d say most of the dialogue is changed and provides us with a much different perspective than the one we had before. Motivations are changed, key concepts are better explained, and characters will be looked at in a completely different light.

“Is this worth reading?”

Yes.

“Would I like this?”

If you like super-powered cat-themed women on different sides of the aisle going against each other using various means of technology with an air of mystery between them this is for you.

“What would this comic’s film rating be?”

PG-13. Language.

“Could I get a quote from the comic?”

“…well, let’s just say she’s an unreliable narrator.”

 

Physical Link: https://mercpublishing.com/products/miss-meow-4-cover-a-john-royle?_pos=4&_sid=f518142ac&_ss=r

Digital Link: https://mercpublishing.com/products/miss-meow-4-pdf-download?_pos=1&_sid=f518142ac&_ss=r

Unboxing Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BtikvJjwY

***IN-DEPTH COMIC STATS BELOW***

Probably Contains Spoilers

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Actual Pages(not counting covers and credits): 24

Violent Pages: 1, for 4% of the comic

Sexy Pages: 1, for 4% of the comic

 

**The levels below aren’t necessarily maintained throughout the whole comic, but they were definitely reached**

 

Violence Level – 1

“Wasn’t no tussling at all.”

“Sometimes you gotta hit somebody.”

“I’m getting charged with how many counts of assault?”

“This was a tournament arc.”

“All my life I had to fight.”

 

Gore Level – 1

“The only thing leaking out your face is tears.”

“Looks like somebody spilled some ketchup.”

“Might need to soak that up with a bath towel.”

“That isn’t supposed to be outside the body.”

“This is a slaughterhouse.”

 

Death Level – 1

“And everybody lived happily ever after.”

“We might have gone to a couple funerals.”

“It just LOOKS like a serial killer was here.”

“Yeah this was a tragedy.”

“Think Gettysburg.”

 

Porn Level – 2

“Everybody kept their clothes on.”

“I guess it was too hot for a bra.”

“Sometimes you got to let everything air out.”

“This is like late night Cinemax in the early 2000’s.”

“Oh. This is porn.”