Greg Rucka is firing with all cylinders on this series.
The high concept is Homicide: Life on the Street with just a dash of the Batman. Bats has been with us for a good while now and we've all read our share of his tales. Whether it was during the days of four-colored camp or chewing on the grit & gristle of his grimmer incarnations. I can't recall, however, ever experiencing Gotham as more than a backdrop to The Caped Crusader and his merry menagerie of psychopaths. That is, until now.
Gotham lives and breathes through Rucka's cast of characters. They're on the Job in a city full of colorful and homicidal lunatics and their resident man in tights is driven by his very own special brand of crazy. They get no respect from the civvies and even other branches of the Force think they're riding on the World's Greatest Detective's coattails.
Ol' Pointy Ears appearances are sparse but effective. You get a real feel of what it would be like to live in the same city as the Dark Knight.
