{"id":458,"date":"2012-05-05T09:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T09:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/theculture\/2012\/05\/05\/batman-gates-of-gotham-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T19:38:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T19:38:44","slug":"batman-gates-of-gotham-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/theculture\/2012\/05\/05\/batman-gates-of-gotham-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Gates of Gotham (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This book collects the five issue Gates of Gotham<\/span> mini-series. It has a number of creators involved. The story was by Scott Snyder and Kyle Higgins with the dialogue by Kyle Higgins with Ryan Parrott on the last three issues. The art was mainly by Trevor McCarthy except for issue 4 where the art was by Dustin Nguyen and Derec Donovan.<\/p>\n

Batman has to deal with a bombing campaign in Gotham targeted at landmarks associated with the founding families of the city – the Waynes, Elliots and Cobblepots. With Robin, Red Robin and Black Bat all helping, Batman discovers a vendetta that stretches back to the end of the 19th century when the expansion of the city was at its height. He must stop the bomber before half the city is destroyed by floods.<\/p>\n

This story is set before the DC universe reboot and is set after Batman: RIP<\/span> and after Bruce Wayne’s return and the set up of world wide Batman franchises. So it features Dick Grayson as Batman with Bruce’s son Damien as Robin. And this is one of the problems of this book for me. Yes Bruce Wayne was always going to be a tough act to follow as Batman but you would think that if anyone could pull it off it would be his one time protege, Dick Grayson. Not only did he train under Batman in his time as Robin but he moved on and became a hero in his own right. However, in this story he is almost crippled by self-doubt and would be lost without Tim Drake to help him crack the case – of course he is not helped by the bitter Robin criticising him at every turn. Also the story, despite having four writers working on it, is just not very inspiring – the plot is pedestrian and the new villain boring and formulaic. All in all a bit of a disappointment. The only real bright spot was the art by Trevor McCarthy, whose work I have not seen before but enjoyed looking at here – though why they took an issue away from him is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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