Gotham by Midnight #04
Writer: Ray Fawkes
Artist: Ben Templesmith
Publisher: DC
“…judgment is coming.”
As always, a shadow hangs over Gotham City, but this is different from the likes of the Joker, Bane, or other tangible villains that Batman can handle – this is something darker, something supernatural. Up to this point in the series, we’ve seen Corrigan and his Midnight Shift use various tactics ranging from conventional to ritualistic means of handling the strange, otherworldly forces haunting Gotham, yet the cases we’ve seen thus far have come to resolution through one primary method of deliverance: Heaven’s blade, The Spectre. Well, for all those Corrigan fanboys out there the wait is over, and the wrath of the Heavens is finally unleashed upon Gotham. But at what cost, and to what ends?
Following Corrigan and Rook on a typical Gotham Friday night, we get to see a street level view of how the local natives spend their weekends, and it all points to one (obvious) conclusion: Gotham is spiritually sick – well, it has been and most likely always will be. Sin and vice run deep in the city’s core, and even Batman and his hoard of vigilantes can’t rid evil so deeply rooted that it’s nigh Biblical. And those strange creatures? Those betentacled phantasms have finally revealed which side they’re playing and what they ultimately entail for Gotham in terms of deliverance the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah; although it seems the weapon of choice here might be closer to the heart of the problem than we think.
This issue has a HUGE reveal regarding Ovovo (one of the odd creatures last seen a couple issues back, and honestly the only name I directly remember) and company, and even alludes to a potential connection with The Spectre; which is all I’ll detail if I’m to not say too much. This is the prelude to what seems to be our first arc’s climax, and the dynamism and interactions of characters here is both beautiful, and tragic. We literally get to see the “gameface” of the entire Midnight Shift (Rook included) in the wake of what very well could be the apocalypse. Or, “an apocalypse,” if we’re following comic logic… anyways, the book’s good, something something indie ‘Bat-titles’, something something get it while it’s hot.
Artist: Ben Templesmith
Publisher: DC
“…judgment is coming.”
As always, a shadow hangs over Gotham City, but this is different from the likes of the Joker, Bane, or other tangible villains that Batman can handle – this is something darker, something supernatural. Up to this point in the series, we’ve seen Corrigan and his Midnight Shift use various tactics ranging from conventional to ritualistic means of handling the strange, otherworldly forces haunting Gotham, yet the cases we’ve seen thus far have come to resolution through one primary method of deliverance: Heaven’s blade, The Spectre. Well, for all those Corrigan fanboys out there the wait is over, and the wrath of the Heavens is finally unleashed upon Gotham. But at what cost, and to what ends?
Following Corrigan and Rook on a typical Gotham Friday night, we get to see a street level view of how the local natives spend their weekends, and it all points to one (obvious) conclusion: Gotham is spiritually sick – well, it has been and most likely always will be. Sin and vice run deep in the city’s core, and even Batman and his hoard of vigilantes can’t rid evil so deeply rooted that it’s nigh Biblical. And those strange creatures? Those betentacled phantasms have finally revealed which side they’re playing and what they ultimately entail for Gotham in terms of deliverance the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah; although it seems the weapon of choice here might be closer to the heart of the problem than we think.
This issue has a HUGE reveal regarding Ovovo (one of the odd creatures last seen a couple issues back, and honestly the only name I directly remember) and company, and even alludes to a potential connection with The Spectre; which is all I’ll detail if I’m to not say too much. This is the prelude to what seems to be our first arc’s climax, and the dynamism and interactions of characters here is both beautiful, and tragic. We literally get to see the “gameface” of the entire Midnight Shift (Rook included) in the wake of what very well could be the apocalypse. Or, “an apocalypse,” if we’re following comic logic… anyways, the book’s good, something something indie ‘Bat-titles’, something something get it while it’s hot.
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