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Gotham City: Year One (2022-) #1

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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. Mas gostei da premissa: mostrar como o crime e a corrupção começaram na cidade, duas gerações antes do surgimento do Batman. Gotham City: Year One collects issues 1-6 of the DC Comics series written by Tom King, illustrated by Phil Hester, and colored by Jordie Bellaire.

This series doubles down on that corniness by having the kidnapper use a bat symbol on the ransom letters and being referred to as the Bat-Man.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. The Wayne legacy, or at least what left of it there is, becomes a point of disdain and embarrassment. Gotham City: Year One by Tom King, Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur, Jordie Bellaire and Clayton Cowles will debut with a variant cover by Ryan Sook and a 1:25 variant cover by David Marquez. 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. Gotham City: Year One is a noir mystery in which the Wayne family are the prime suspects in their daughter Helen's disappearance.

The world is on fire, death has happened, and the detective with too big a heart needs to find some justice.

The only big changes seem to be in motivation, but those motivations as far as I know are wholesale created for this series. Queenie claimed that she had left town with the money immediately after the money drop on Finger Apartment's rooftop. Slam Bradley, no matter how his character is modified in this series, that modification doesn't really change anything, even though it really should. I really enjoyed the first 5 issues of the book, with King crafting a great noir set in Gotham with everything you would want: hard boiled crime, damsels, smoking guns, and double and triple crossings. Dawson's murder occurs at Richard's new industrial refinery, highlighting that Richard's profitable business began with blood.

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. Set in 1961, it’s supposedly the last era of the city before it became the perpetually crime-ridden nightmare we all know and love. Featuring weekly comic release discussions, creator AMAs, a friendly and helpful userbase, and much more! While this book does tackle some issues like segregation, policing, and gentrification that are huge factors in why present-day Gotham has the issues it does, this story just does not do it justice. However, when you apply those deconstructions the other way, it diminishes the work being used as context.I'm honored to play a small part in bringing Siegel and Shuster's landmark creation to a new audience, and in giving one of DC's oldest legends the white-hot spotlight he deserves.

Twenty percent of the story is people beating each other to a bloody pulp, yet a naked butt in the shower is censored by a word balloon.I mentioned earlier that the Wayne’s “revitalization” project ignores or even actively harms the people living in the city’s poorer South Side, but what the story is very emphatic on pointing out is that the people who live there are almost all black. He was able to adopt white privilege, and justified it by how much easier it made going through life: “there are certain spaces I’m not allowed into unless I mark the wrong box”. Plenty of people talk about revitalizing of “slums” and improving the city, but the people who live in those neighborhoods are an afterthought at best and something to be dealt with at worst. The ingredients alone led me to believe some twisted shit was going down and I was surprised a couple times. Recomendable, solo, si no te importa que Batman no participe en la historia ni esperas al mejor King en este tomo autoconclusivo de 192 páginas.

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