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Gotham City: Year One (2022-) #1

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All of the cards have been laid on the table, and Richard Wayne’s conspiracy to steal his own wife’s money has left a wake of destruction across the entire city. Una historia sobre el pasado de la familia Wayne donde un joven Bradley, se enfrenta al secuestro del bebé de Richard y Constantine Wayne en un ambiente clásico de novela negra policíaca. However, when you apply those deconstructions the other way, it diminishes the work being used as context.

Hester and Gapstur, on the other hand, give their all with moody, dramatic shadows for the full detective noir treatment. There are even a couple of panels where Slam looks just like Humphrey Bogart, which I feel has to be intentional. The way that city politics, class conflict, scandal, and prejudice all seem to work together reminds me a bit of the movie Chinatown, which can only be a good thing.Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. 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. 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. 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 might have enjoyed this more if I hadn't just read King's noirish treatment of the Human Target recently, but my biggest problem is the stupidity of pairing a trigger warning with grawlix.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. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. Gotham City: Year One concludes as one of the darkest tales ever told about Gotham City with nary a mask in sight and offers readers a potent spin on the familiar.

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