The boys in blue are back in town in Gotham Central #1
Crime never stops in Gotham, not even as Poison Ivy’s ancient plants begin to overtake the city. We review Batman: Bad Seeds – Gotham Central #1.

Crime never stops in Gotham, not even as Poison Ivy’s ancient plants begin to overtake the city. We review Batman: Bad Seeds – Gotham Central #1.
A lot of #1s in this week’s Staff Picks, including Gotham Central, Spawn 77, The Karman Blade and Six of Us. What are YOU looking forward to reading?
Welcome to the streets of Gotham. While Batman is a “street level” character, he still is usually fighting with killer clowns, obnoxious geniuses and crocodile men. So who handles all the day to day crime? Well, the Gotham City Police Department of course. And while it is a legendarily corrupt force, there are still cops…
This whole episode came about when Matt was looking for something else entirely, and he stumbled across an issue of Batman: Gotham Adventures, the animated series tie-in, written by Ed Brubaker. As he didn’t remember that at all, he decided he had to read it, and since he has minimal time to read for pleasure,…
I sit and write this introduction on a February morning where it is in the mid 40s and going up to the low 50s today, but it’s still winter, and so we were thinking about the snow and cold when coming up with episodes, and when you think of cold and Gotham, who else do…
The Gotham City Police Department, or GCPD for short, has been part of Batman’s world since his first appearance, which also happened to be the first appearance of Commissioner James Gordon. And while the members of the GCPD focused on in the comics have shifted over the years, the presence of it has been a…
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