Camila I I itibaren Çağlar Köyü, 67800 Çağlar Köyü/Devrek/Zonguldak, Türkiye
This third hard cover volume collects issues #23–31 of Gotham Central, DC's comic about the Gotham City Police Department's Major Crime Unit (mostly dealing with the kinds of crime that inevitably tends to involve "the Bat"). The volume is dominated by Greg Rucka's writing, and while it was Brubaker's presence that caused me initially to pick the series, I have to say that both of these writers do a great job on it. First out is the two-parter "Corrigan," which gives us a look into the corruption in the GCPD and problems with internal affairs as two members of the MCU are involved in the shooting of a masked assassin where CSI Jim Corrigan happens to "lose" some important evidence. The short arc is written by Rucka and drawn by Michael Lark & Stefano Gaudiano. This is followed by a one-shot, "Lights Out," by the same creative team. Events have led the police to lose faith in "the Bat" and consequently commissioner Michael Akins has decided to remove the infamous bat signal from the roof of Gotham Central. Third out is the two-parter "On the Freak Beat," by Ed Brubaker and Jason Alexander. Here the MCU finds a murder scene with evidence pointing towards Catwoman. But detective Josephine "Josie Mac" MacDonald has a sense about these things, and it tells here that everything is not as it seems. The volume ends with the Rucka-penned and Gaudiano-drawn four-parter "Keystone Kops." Here an Keystone City villain, Doctor Alchemy, has left an insidious trap behind in Gotham City, and an unlucky police officer is the one who is exposed to the Doctor's experiment. It is up to the MCU to try to solve the case. As some of you may know already, I really enjoyed volume 1 and volume 2, and this volume has certainly not disappointed me either. It is good crime fiction, set in a superhero universe, but grounded in a strong police perspective. Highly recommended.