Monday, January 26, 2009
Gotham Central, Vol 2: Half a Life
Last week I got hold of volume 2 of the comic Gotham Central, which follows regular Gotham City cops trying to solve crimes in the world of Batman. This was an amazing collection; this volume is all about officer Renee Montoya, and it collects a story about her that wasn't actually published in Gotham Central, making a better overall narrative. The plot concerns Montoya being outed as a lesbian and dealing with that while having to negotiate the maze of Two-Face's emotions as well. It's a great read.
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This is an interesting series. It's a quite different take on cops and superheroes/supervillains than Powers is. Manages to be gritty without just diving headfirst into tacky and obscene the way Powers seems to do every couple issues. I really didn't need the monkey sex issue, for example.
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ReplyDeleteI kinda think Powers has jumped the shark now. And I speak as one who owns every single published trade.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about Powers, as someone who checks out the latest trades from the library.
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