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Batman: Gordon of Gotham (Batman (DC Comics))

de Dennis O'Neil, Jim Aparo (Il·lustrador), Chuck Dixon (Autor), Dick Giordano (Il·lustrador), Klaus Janson (Il·lustrador)1 més, Bill Sienkiewicz (Il·lustrador)

Altres autors: John Costanza (Letterer), Jamison (Colorist), Ian Laughlin (Colorist), Pam Rambo (Colorist), Clem Robins (Letterer)1 més, Kevin Somers (Colorist)

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Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon stars in this new collection of crime stories from the 1990s that stars the colorful, determined cops of Batman's hometown. Collects BATMAN: GORDON OF GOTHAM #1-4, BATMAN: GCPD #1-4 and BATMAN: GORDON'S LAW #1-4.
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    Gotham Central, Book One: In the Line of Duty de Greg Rucka (Lucky-Loki)
    Lucky-Loki: "Gordon of Gotham", particularly its middle story focusing on the detectives in the Major Crimes Unit, is very much a precursor to the later "Gotham Central" line, sidelining Batman and the masked villains and focusing on instead the regular, mundane cops of Gotham City, and the bleak, brutal and corrupt world they every day fight to make a little bit better.… (més)
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The Dennis O'Neil story that concludes the volume is a decent-but-nothing-special story about Gordon's brief career in Chicago before coming to Gotham, but the two Chuck Dixon stories forming the rest of this collection are excellent, gripping crime stories, and warmly recommended to anyone who enjoys the grounded end of the tales set in Gotham City, where Batman is at most a distant background figure and police, criminals and politicians take centre stage. ( )
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This book collects three four-issue miniseries that feature Commissioner Gordon and/or the Gotham City Police Department; it's a precursor of sorts to Gotham Central, though I am pretty sure that the only main character here who is also a main character there is the ubiquitous Renee Montoya. Each of the stories here has a slightly different focus.

"Gordon's Law" is pretty squarely focused on Commissioner Gordon himself, as he discovers that there's possibly some corruption in the GCPD, which means he can't trust anyone on the force-- and to make things worse, he only wants cops to go after cops, which means he rejects Batman's offer of assistance as well. The story is kinda complicated; there are a lot of characters, and most of them were new to me (if not new to everyone), and though I really like the gritty tone established by Klaus Janson's artwork, he didn't always make it easy to remember who was who. Its biggest weakness is probably that it's one of those stories where tons of "old friends" we've never seen before turn up, and the narrative expects us to be surprised when an "old friend" we've never seen before turns out to not be altogether trustworthy. And that's not the only obvious twist, but there were some good ones as well. Overall, it's an okay tale: some good crime fiction influences, but it doesn't really have anything to say about Gordon, about the GCPD, or about Batman.

"GCPD" is the most like Gotham Central of all the stories here; the commissioner is just a minor part of a sprawling, ensemble tale of various members of the GCPD pursuing various cases. Harvey Bullock struggles with anger management, a new partner, and a serial killer; Renee Montoya goes undercover as a diplomat's wife to help catch an assassin; two cops named Kitch (a trained lawyer) and Cav (a grizzled old vet) track down art thieves and an insurance scam; an administrator named Hendricks tries to figure out who's stealing stationery. As you might imagine, some of these stories are better than others: I always enjoy a Montoya tale, but Chuck Dixon doesn't really make her very unique, and the circumstance she ends up in seems incredibly contrived to say the least. (Do local cops really handle assassination plots against foreign officials? Would there really be no plan for cancelling the operation when it all goes wrong and the diplomat deliberately endangers Montoya's life?) On the other hand, I did enjoy the Harvey Bullock plot. This was my first real exposure to the character (he was retired during Gotham Central), and he gets to do some good old-fashioned investigating that shows off his intelligence as well as his human side, and I liked his contentious relationship with his new partner.

The Kitch/Cav plot had its moments, but some of its beats were very familiar. Is the lawyer-turned-cop who is mocked for his education by the cops and for his slumming it by the lawyers, and flirts with going back to law only to be reminded that lawyers are corrupt, a thing? I am pretty sure I read this exact story last year in Fort Freak. I liked Cav, though. The best character of all, however, was Hendricks: of course a desk officer grimly determined to catch an office supplies thief in the fact of mockery from his colleagues was my fave. The law begins and ends with him! I've previously struggled with Jim Aparo art on stories of the "gritty" type, but to my surprise, he paired really well with Bill Sienkiewicz on inks: Aparo does great figures and great storytelling, but Sienkiewicz's rough inks add the right tone for an urban cop story. Best art in the book.

"Gordon of Gotham" is even less about the GCPD than "Gordon's Law," as it's mostly a present-day Gordon telling Batman about his last year as a Chicago cop, leading into the events of Batman: Year One. As anyone who read my review of that story would know, I love Jim Gordon, and Dennis O'Neil really captures what it is that I like about him. Gordon is just a man trying to do the right thing in a world that will never reward him for it, because it is a world that needs Batman. Gordon argues with his wife (there's a callback to his struggle with domestic violence from Night Cries, another quality Jim Gordon tale), but ends up stopping a diner holdup almost by accident, then decides to go after corruption, but the world itself is corrupt, and he quickly gets in deeply over his head and ends up making choices that violate his moral core... or so he had thought. O'Neil piles on the twists and the action in a compelling way, and I really liked how this set us up for the Gordon of Year One, down to his decision to grow a mustache. The only real weakness is the frame; I wonder why they didn't just do this story in pure flashback.

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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
O'Neil, DennisAutorautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Aparo, JimIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Dixon, ChuckAutorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Giordano, DickIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Janson, KlausIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Sienkiewicz, BillIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Costanza, JohnLettererautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
JamisonColoristautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Laughlin, IanColoristautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Rambo, PamColoristautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Robins, ClemLettererautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Somers, KevinColoristautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat

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Gotham City Police Commissioner Jim Gordon stars in this new collection of crime stories from the 1990s that stars the colorful, determined cops of Batman's hometown. Collects BATMAN: GORDON OF GOTHAM #1-4, BATMAN: GCPD #1-4 and BATMAN: GORDON'S LAW #1-4.

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