The End.
So we come to the end of the story. The assassin, Jordan Reynolds is
free,
the victim, Commissioner James Gordon has crippled forever (well, he
hasn't confined to a wheelchair as his foster daughter, Barbara, after a
similar incident, but stick). So Gordon decides to retire. For farewell, he
once more calls Batman by the bat signal.
So the farewell is
pretty bitter.
But later
they reconcile each other.
The case indisposes Renee Montoya and Harvey Bullock mostly. Montoya
goes sick-leave that she can put an end of Jordan Reynolds.
Fortunately Bullock guess what Montoya wants, and he reminds her by the
handcuff key which they have gotten from Gordon at beginning of the story that
they only have the right to take away the freedom of criminals but not their
lives, otherwise they would just murderers.
However, Bullock's goodbye is quite ominous.
And sure enough, at next time Reynolds' apartment is vacant and interspersed
with a few bloodstain.
Although it is not specifically who had arranged him but the end is
quite talkative. Montoya is solitary drinking in the pub brooding about her
handcuff keys, Bullock comes in and connects her but he does not have his key.
Greg Rucka has started the story and he completes it. However, the
overture is better than the end. It is quite uninteresting Gordon's retreat and
his farewell from Batman which ought to be the essence in principle (the front
page and the title also refer it). Despite the high emotions, it could not
touch me. The Montoya-Bullock thread has become stronger with real and serious
say instead of an emotion firework. You can not do truth without staining your
hands. Rucka well uses the handcuff key symbol for it. Which looks like just an
abstract symbol at the beginning it fills of real content at the end. In
addition, instead of jangle of Gordon and Batman like an old married couple I
have rather caught Bullock who undertook the dirty work to preserve the purity
of Montoya. Apparently the Montoya-Bullock thread suits for Rick Burchett
because the sides are really successful which has prepared for this and the
rest is rather boring.
Finally, it is a few words for the summary of the whole Officer Down
story. Obviously they intended a priori slowly moving, dramatically tense
story. However, only the first two booklets could fit for this, and then the
plot irretrievably collapsed and sat down. Here, the excitement of the
investigation ought to complete of the story, but sadly, the investigation was
too easy. In vain they tried to resurrect the dramatic tension towards the end,
it was only successful in a small part (the Montoya-Bullock thread as I have
discussed above). So it was a mistake to extend the story more than three-four
issues. In addition, it was completely unjustified to involvement of some
series in the story line. And this point, I am primarily thinking the Birds of
Prey (and the Robin also) because the team did not participate in the
investigation only Oracle but she constantly hangs about the pages of Nightwing
and other booklets, so it was not really need to involve the Birds of Prey for
her. Well, so the image is very negative overall, even though it was a few very
well done episodes in term of the story and the pictures, the boredom
eventually washed away everything.
That was more than a few words, but never mind : P
The original Hungarian blog post is here.
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