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Gotham Central: Book 2: Jokers and Madmen by [GREG RUCKA, Michael Lark]

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Witness the gritty side of the Gotham City Police Department from their perspective, as they take on psychotic criminals like The Joker and grudgingly look to The Dark Knight for help.
This volume collects two cases of the Gotham Special Crimes Unit. First, The Joker terrorizes the city at Christmastime when he begins randomly executing people with a rifle, and no one from the Mayor on down is safe. A second story focuses on an old case and unfinished business for disgraced detective Harvey Bullock.

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July 12 2011
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Ed Brubaker is one of the most acclaimed writers in comics, winning five best writer Eisner and Harvey Awards in the last ten years.

His bestselling work with Sean Phillips on CRIMINAL, INCOGNITO, FATALE, and THE FADE OUT has been translated around the world to great acclaim, and Marvel's movies featuring his co-creation, The Winter Soldier, have all been international blockbusters.

Ed lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their crazy dog, where he works in comics, film, and television. He was a writer and Supervising Producer for the first season of HBO's WESTWORLD, and is the co-creator and co-writer of TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG with Nicolas Winding Refn.

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Erwin Wall

Great crime fiction

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 30, 2014

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In the second volume we are given a chance to get to know the members of the SCU in Gotham City as they deal with the Joker's first appearance. He assassinates the mayor, a school superintendent, takes a news reporter hostage, and then allows himself to be captured. Also a cold case involving the Mad Hatter that the detectives sink their teeth into following a hostage situation that provides a small lead to pursue.

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The Scribe

A Great Read for a Dark Knight

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 3, 2015

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Ed Brubaker & Greg Rucka have woven another wonderful chapter amidst the annals of Gotham. The unique perspective of the Gotham Central series creates a wonderful experience for the 'Bat-fan'. 'Jokers & Madmen' does masterfully what its predecessor accomplished by showing you the lives of the GCPD in the wake of Jim Gordon's retirement. It analyses how they cope with being undermined by a masked vigilante, as well as the post-traumatic stress of dealing with criminals that cause them to lose limbs due to frost bite or macabre mutilation at the demented and malevolent hands of various Arkham escapees; which the courts cannot keep incarcerated due to their unstable mental health.

'Jokers & Madmen' is as gritty and dark as it is human, without the synthetic chic which some of the other Batman comics tend to have oozing from themselves in spades. Rather than making the protagonists 'super men and women', the detecetives of the GCPD are merely flawed human beings with insecurities and secrets which they wish to keep hidden from a community which they serve, protect... and fear. A community which has seen men like Oswald Cobblepot become a respected and successful entrepeneur, and a city where the Joker can cause mass panic and widespread fear, all the while the last hope of these men and women of the law, is a dark and hooded figure whom operates outside of it.

'Jokers & Madmen' delves into the dark secrets of Gotham, of its heroes and its villains, its detectives and its antagonists. This tome uses characters old and new & blends them together in such a way that is as organic as it is entertaining, creating a fresh perspective of Gotham and its Dark Knight. A must for any true 'Bat-fan' who enjoys solid character development, dark realism and alternative perspectives on the Dark Knight, while exploring the usual more periphery heroes of Gotham City; the Detectives of GCPD, those that have to gather the evidence at a crime scene, face the fury of Arkham's attendees and after battling with the likes of Two-Face and Joker must write up the police reports of this dark city's Jokers & Madmen.

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wilf.nelson

fine just bland and lacking the power of batman comics

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 23, 2015

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Just a bit dry. The cop stories are ok but they end up boring me. They read like Law and Order if they did a comic and then whenever a properly interesting villain turns up instead of just a bloke who kidnaps child (which frankly is the evening news). When a clever villain does turn up batman appears and saves the day but it is like looking at an infinitely more interesting comic.

Wouldn't get these. the art and story are fine just not as grabbing as batman, hence his huge popularity

Gary Steven lythe

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 28, 2015

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Fantastic book, highly recommended to fans of Gotham City or Ed Brubaker.

Atul singh

AWESOME.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on January 15, 2018

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I JUST LOVE THIS SERIES!.This comic book depicts what Gotham in dc universe is.This volume two is just too good to explain.It tells the condition of Gotham’s trusted(yes,I’am being sarcastic)police force When it comes to the most hedious,sadistic and down right chilling crimes committed by probably the most deranged minds in the DC universe.it showcases all the villains perfectly and I loved it.

FZ

Magnifique

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on February 5, 2018

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Pour l’instant mon préféré de la série. Les histoires mettent en scène de nouveaux personnages côté police et nous présente à travers leur regard la difficulté d’une vie à la merci de fous à lier comme seul Gotham sait en produire.

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