Batman v1 587 - Officer Down 01

These are your Rights.

Well, again it's not a Birds of Prey issue, which means that our team is in a crossover event again. In this case, it is a seven-piece story which runs through the booklets of Batman family 2001. Let's go.

Chief Commissioner of Gotham, JamesGordon (Barbara's uncle and stepfather) is celebrating his birthday.

Batman does not participate in the party; he patrols the streets of Gotham.

Commissioner Gordon does not only receive the gifts, but he also gives a handcuff key to his each partner. Firstly, he dismisses the thing with a joke (this is never found when you need it), but then he quickly makes his point: he thinks it to symbolize the supreme authority of the police, that he can arrest anyone and can take anyone's freedom.

To illustrate this, he narrates a story from his young lieutenant age when he arrested someone in front of his family in Chicago.

In parallel with the friendly conversation, Batman takes care of a small-time criminal gang.

The party is over, the home walking Gordon comes across Catwoman and true to good cop he wants to arrest her immediately.

But then,

Someone shoots him back.

Greg Rucka's story rolls on slowly, leisurely, but enjoyable, it is worthy preface of a long (and probably complicated) story. Commissioner Gordon's peaceful storytelling counterpoints Batman's brutal actions of Batman in good tempo, and the cliffhanger is smashing at the end (it is pity that the cover shot spoils the punch line). Rick Burchett's drawings are beautiful, I like his panel composition too, but his some frames are such as if he tries to force something into a small place.

And at the end, the red page is smashing.

Official Announcement: The booklet includes the following detectives: Harvey Bullock, Renée Montoya, Crispus Allen, they are labeled too.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.