A review by tfitoby
Gotham Central, Vol. 3: Unresolved Targets by Ed Brubaker, Stefano Gaudiano, Greg Rucka, Michael Lark

4.0

The first story in this book is the second collaboration between Rucka and Brubaker for Gotham Central, playing on the well worn themes of Joker holding Gotham to ransom over his ongoing feud with The Bat. Certainly reminiscent of the really tedious second half of Dark Knight but from the point of view of the detectives it becomes something far more interesting, but even so as with the rest of the series the detectives are so interestingly written that when these silly cartoon villains appear it reduces part of the enjoyment of the story. And I don't want to criticise Rucka, which is how I always feel when I'm reviewing these books, one eye constantly on the lookout for Brubaker's involvement but the second story that is all Brubaker is truly exceptional crime writing that not only gives everything you love about Criminal or Fatale or basically anything he created with Scott Phillips (minus the fabulous art of Phillips unfortunately) but also everything you've already come to love about this series so far, it's dark, brooding observations of humanity.