(Note: This review was done for the Collected Editions blog.)
I can’t imagine it is easy being a cop in any city but imagine being a cop in a city where you have to deal with masked and costumed lunatics on a daily basis. Imagine a city where perps have names like Mr. Freeze and Firefly and where a nightmare like the Joker is a incredibly true and almost daily threat. Now imagine being a cop in that city and whenever you feel like you may have a true break on a case, another costumed lunatic like the Batman beats you and solves it before you can even get out of your car. Welcome to the Gotham City Police Department and, more specifically, the Major Crimes Unit (MCU). Welcome to Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka’s Gotham Central.
With Gotham Central: In The Line of Duty’s opening two part story, Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka immediately plunge the reader into a murder as two detectives, investigating the disappearance of a teenage girl, have the bad luck of finding Mr. Freeze instead. A simple case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time turns into a homicide as Freeze kills one of the cops and leaves the other with a frozen hand as a warning. The manhunt begins for the cop killer as both the day and night shifts of the MCU are called in and race to find Freeze on their own before the masked vigilante Batman does.
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