Gotham City: Year One (2022-) #1

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Any story which can put this much drama and excitement into what is ultimately just a conversation between all the principle players should be celebrated. In a brilliant idea, the telling of Gotham’s fall from grace is presented here as a hard-boiled crime mystery starring the OG private dick Slam Bradley, who gives a deathbed confession of his involvement in a child kidnapping case that set the city on fire. Gotham City: Year One tears down the legacies of the characters that readers care about because it makes for a shocking revelation and adds pathos to its own story. The veneer of respectability surrounding Gotham City has collapsed, and blood is in the streets when a black woman is blamed for killing the Wayne’s baby daughter.

Or why not include "mature language" in the title page disclaimer also and be done with the ridiculous symbols? That said, the evil this story has uncovered and where it is buried has implications in a symbolic way surrounding Gotham. O que me encantou mesmo nessa minissérie foi a tentativa de emular as narrativas noir dos anos 1930 de autores como Mickey Spillane e Raymond Chandler, com um protagonista imponente como Bradley e personagens sem escrúpulos e nem remorsos como os Wayne daquela época.However, the colors started to become more of what I expected as Slam delved further and further into the city’s dark underbelly.

Please note that Gabe's opinions are his own and don't always reflect the opinions of Weird Science as a whole. It seems little Helena Wayne was snatched from her crib sometime earlier, and now he's the guy on the doorstep holding the ransom note. I freely admit part of the would be nostalgic as I grew up on PI shows like Mike Hammer and (the original) Magnum PI. Slam Bradley knows the truth, and he’s knocking at the door of Wayne manor looking for answers – or maybe it’s repercussions.It’s a time period with the potential to offer a interesting look at an as of yet unexplored part of Gotham’s history that could give context to Batman’s crusade. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the kidnapping of the century as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn. I was expecting it to be set during the establishment of Gotham and probably have some more mystical aspects mixed in, like Dark Knight, Dark City. Bruce’s father Thomas is born nine months after Constance and Slam slept together and Constance shot her husband. A história é focada em Slam Bradley, detetive particular criado pelos mesmos inventores do Superman.