Gotham City: Year One (2022-) #1

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Still, it's a Black Label book and probably not a part of continuity, although it's DC so does that really matter? As the world falls apart around him, Slam must decide between justice and revenge–a choice that will echo down the generations and redefine both Gotham and Batman! If you’ve been reading this book expecting some huge revelation about Batman and Slam, you might feel slightly disappointed. The comic fell onto my desk like a sledge hammer coming down on a boulder – no one could tell you how exactly it would end up, but it was definitely going to leave a mark. This series ended in a way that makes sense for the story but would have benefited from King deviating from his usual formula just a little.

Or why not include "mature language" in the title page disclaimer also and be done with the ridiculous symbols? The opening’s brutality is visceral, as Slam’s narration about how he mostly just took whatever path in life was simplest is contrasted with bloodshed and violence. I freely admit part of the would be nostalgic as I grew up on PI shows like Mike Hammer and (the original) Magnum PI.The warm color tones in the beginning seemed in conflict with the jaded detective narration that were overlaid on top of them. Despite Sam's assurances that there was still hope that they may recover Helen, Constance was adamant that she was dead. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A história é focada em Slam Bradley, detetive particular criado pelos mesmos inventores do Superman. The biggest twist plays against the very perception of Bradley as a character from his inception, but before it is over the tale also tarnishes the sterling Wayne family reputation and has some implications for how blue their blood really is.

Taking place two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the headline-grabbing “kidnapping of the century” as the infant Wayne heir Helen 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. In a key scene when a gun goes off, the use of white to convey the light of the bullet firing looks fantastic, with the characters drenched in an unrealistic but vivid red. Jordie Bellaire’s colors are something that I was initially not too keen on, but like King’s narration I think I like where it’s going. Constance has a motive for wanting to put a stop to her husband, and Sam will likely spend the next issue finding evidence to prove it. True to form, King does what King does best when he's blatantly copying other stories or real-world incidents, and this first issue is no exception.For now I will say that King’s writing style fits the noir aesthetic he’s going for, but that praise is dependent on future issues having less constant narration and more diegetic storytelling. With a tragic turn of events and a city on the edge of burning, can this hard-boiled private detective close an impossible case?

But Gotham going from the golden city to crime infested dumpster fire in twenty years is quite a stretch. Sam Bradly is an old man in a hospital room, presumably on his deathbed, who retells the part he played in an ugly time in Gotham's history to the Dark Knight. 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.Slam Bradley isn't a name you hear all that often (unless you're a Weird Science podcast devotee, as all good comic fans are), so it came as a surprise when the announcement dropped about a Slam Bradley series written by Tom King. 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. Throughout the following issues, readers are left to wonder when Richard lost control of the situation, and when someone else stepped in to stop him.

To give some credit to King, the mystery aspect of the series was great (not as bloated as with Human Target). However, if this whole first issue is just the opening scenes the story, then it becomes far more appropriate and fits within the overall style that King is going for. What’s revealed is that Tom King went a step further and created a metaphorical, if not literal predecessor to Batman in Richard Wayne. On the other hand, it *is* a noir story filled with the tropes and trappings that sometimes plagued the genres in frustrating ways that make stuff like the social commentary fall a bit flat.Hester and Gapstur, on the other hand, give their all with moody, dramatic shadows for the full detective noir treatment. Instead of a small army of police and the FBI leading the investigation, the investigation is held in secret with Slam Bradley at the center. The finale of a grand mystery is here this week in Gotham City: Year One, which promises answers to the murder mystery that rocked the Wayne family.