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Gotham Central, Vol. 1: In the Line of Duty
by Ed Brubaker
Contains two stories, "In the Line of Duty" and "Motive." In the first, two officers investigate a tip on a kidnapping case and instead encounter Mr. Freeze, who fills one of them. His fellow officers try to bring down Freeze before the Bat Signal brings Batman into the picture.
In the second story, the surviving partner of the team from the earlier story is still on the kidnapping case when the victim's body is found. The case slowly merges with that of a costumed arsonist called Firebug, who turns out to have employed the victim as a babysitter and killed her when she discovered his secret: he bought the Firebug apparatus on G-Bay.
In "Motive," the identity of the Firebug is easy to figure out. What's more enjoyable about Brubaker and Rucka's approach is bringing the police procedural to Gotham City, in the margins of superheroes and supervillains, and keeping the spotlight on the officers and their stories.
The art gives the pov, which sticks with the officers, and there are no descriptive panel tags other than to give the date and time of day.
Re-read 5 Oct 2015.
In the second story, the surviving partner of the team from the earlier story is still on the kidnapping case when the victim's body is found. The case slowly merges with that of a costumed arsonist called Firebug, who turns out to have employed the victim as a babysitter and killed her when she discovered his secret: he bought the Firebug apparatus on G-Bay.
In "Motive," the identity of the Firebug is easy to figure out. What's more enjoyable about Brubaker and Rucka's approach is bringing the police procedural to Gotham City, in the margins of superheroes and supervillains, and keeping the spotlight on the officers and their stories.
The art gives the pov, which sticks with the officers, and there are no descriptive panel tags other than to give the date and time of day.
Re-read 5 Oct 2015.