Allen and Montoya cross paths with some dirty cops. Robin is found dead and the MCU is on the case. Supernatural horrors are afoot and the cops of the MCU try to get home to their families when the situation escalates far beyond their control. Crispus Allen investigates Jim Corrigan, the most corrupt cop on the force...All good things must come to an end and in the world of graphic novels, few in recent memory were as good as Gotham Central.With the departure of Mike Lark, the writing was on the...

Very smart, excellent books. What is it like to be cops in a city under the shadow of the Bat.Focused on the characters and their troubled lives.

Great series about the men and women of the M.C.U. and their constant battle against crime with The Bat hanging over their shoulders all the time. The idea of how the force is constantly being shown up by Batman is not a concept that is usually explored or even considered. Solid stories and a rough art style with plenty of shadows makes for a great combination.9/10

The thing with crime procedurals and crime genre in most fiction is that you can play on the murder mystery storyline or have the hard hunt on someone you know is guilty. This volume does both, having the Fuzz in Gotham investigate the killings of kids dressed as Robin and a corrupt cop within the force in two separate story arcs. It's very good writing, and while all this is going on Brubaker and Rucka never lose focus on their characters. There is the inclusion of SOME tights, but it's superfl...

Holy shit that's some good writing. I haven't put the book down for one minute since I opened it, and I'm almost shaking from the thrills and suspense. I realised about 90% through Dead Robin that I'd read it before, which meant that I was enjoying it thoroughly for a second time. It's that good.The second storyline was equally gripping and pretty damned dark, and was a helluva way to end off this series. I wish it kept going, but I'm sure glad it existed.

Book 4: 5 starsOverall series: 4.5 stars.Very good series that ended prematurely but I can't shake the feeling that it didn't use it's full potential.Maybe I unrealistically expected to be just as good or even better than The criminal and Lazarus(best works for each of the authors) but this series falls just hair short of 5 stars.This of course doesn't apply to stories that involve detectives Allen and Montoya, they are absolute highlight of this series and every story involving them deserves 5

Gotham Central is a series that was strong all the way to the end. There are two really good storylines in this volume. The first covers the appearance of a dead Robin in Gotham and the second deals with the corrupt cop Corrigan. This is a series that needs to be brought back.

Gotham Central is by far, my favorite complete comic/graphic novel series I've read to date (However, Locke and Key isn't finished yet and that's nipping at it's heels).With the exception of that strange Infinite Crisis story line imposed within the middle of this collection, this was a perfect finale to a great series. I can't even give it less than five stars due to how excellent the Corrigan and Die! Robin, Die! stories were.The Robin story line was one of my favorites in the series, especial...

I don't think I had read these issues before and although I kinda knew what happened to Montoya and Allen, I wasn't prepared for the brutal ending to this series. Prior to that there's a bunch of good stuff including the Dead Robin storyline. The tension between the women and men on the job and the masked vigilante that stalks the city continues to drive the book even as Batman remains on the periphery, but in the end this series was always more about the cops than the bat and it ends on a dour

A tragic end to a great series that didn't wear itself out. I'm thankful the series didn't continue and had a satisfying ending. What a great character journey for Renee Montoya

Of all the volumes of Gotham Central, this is the one that appealed least to me. It's closer ties to the DC Universe happenings at the time were distracting -- although I enjoyed those events at the time. Still, I feel that GC is at its best when it's distanced from the supes. Whenever they're more closely integrated, it's more reminiscent of Busiek's Marvels. And that's fine, but that book is what it is. And GC is at its best when it's showcasing the crime-writing talents of Brubaker and Rucka,...

"This isn't Metropolis, Captain, and not just because our guy works at night. This isn't the City of Tomorrow, it isn't San Francisco, it's not New York. It's Gotham, and if you want to see what that means, just check out your squad room." I'm taking that quote out of context but it fits this volume so perfectly. While the previous volumes in the Gotham Central series focused on the sometimes seriously rocky relationship between Batman and the GCPD, as well as the everyday lives of the officers,...

It's amazing no one thought of this before: a series chronicling the daily business of the Gotham City Police Department. Seeing the actions of Batman and his rogues gallery through the eyes of normal people makes for a fantastic premise, but Brubaker and Rucka never let the premise carry too much of the weight. This series is about the detectives and their lives, and is all the better for it.

I have a new appreciation for Gotham Central after watching Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD because apparently this idea of telling stories about ordinary people investigating things in a superhero universe isn’t quite as easy as Rucka and Brubaker made it seem.In this final volume that follows the Major Crime Unit we find out just how hard it is to be a good cop in a bad town with four major stories. In the first, a couple of dirty patrol cops accidentally kill a homeless girl while shaking down a dr...

This fourth and final hard cover volume collects issues #32–40 of Gotham Central, DC's eminent comic about the Gotham City Police Department's Major Crime Unit (mostly dealing with the kinds of crime that inevitably tends to involve "the Bat").This volume, like the last one, is dominated by Greg Rucka's writing, and it still certainly delivers (even though I would not have minded more Ed Brubaker material). It opens with a single-issue story, "Nature," written by Rucka and drawn by Steve Lieber....

Another wonderful installment! The ending is rather fitting.What I love so much about this series is that Rucka managed to make a police procedural work as a comic book. The limited use of the Justice League, Batsy and the Robins really works. It's all about looking at the lives of a police force that's rather ill equipped to deal with Poison Ivy and magic and wizards, but they do the best they can. Rucka has written such a wonderfully complex and imperfect character with Renee Montoya and I fou...

The Gotham Central series wraps up and this final volume, though still good, lacks some of the energy and cohesion of the predecessors. (The engaging, on-going Montoya / Allen / Corrigan story-line resolution was sudden and curiously muted; 'Dead Robin' - with an irrelevant Teens Titans cameo - cruises along until the banal suspect reveal towards the end; and the 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' story was just too disconnected and out of left field.) Frustrating, as it feels like a Book 5 was almost requi...

I can't believe its over. I know it had to end, and I prefer things that do end rather than going on until they become irrelevant or I become bored with them. That being said the childlike fan of things I love just wanted this series to never end. Its a perfect synergy of two things I love: Batman and Police procedurals. These two elements, seemingly disparate, combine into a perfect crystalline structure of storytelling chemistry.Read this, and get ready to be bummed at the end. You will be tre...

After losing first Lark and then Brubaker to Marvel, Rucka brings Gotham Central to a close with the powerful "Corrigan II," following up on "Corrigan" from the last volume. Montoya-centric stories are always winners, and this one had me riveted. In addition, the "Dead Robin" story is almost as exciting as "Soft Targets," with the whole department going after a Robin-killer. Meanwhile, Romy Chandler works out her feelings toward Batman in the worst way possible.I could have read many more issues...