En pleine période de Noël, le Joker lance un défi insurmontable à la police de Gotham : après avoir placé des caméras à différents endroits de la ville, il menace d'abattre des victimes anonymes. De son côté, le policier destitué Harvey Bullock mène une dernière enquête.
Contient (Gotham Central #11-22)

Lacey Anne Lyons était la nouvelle Shirley Temple, l'enfant star des médias, la petite fille préférée des familles américaines. Pour les deux enquêteurs, Sam & Twitch, l'assassin fait partie du cercle rapproché de l'enfant. C'était du moins leur principale piste jusqu'à ce qu'un pédophile récidiviste, repéré quelques jours plus tôt sur les plateaux de tournage, se présente au commissariat pour avouer le meurtre.

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Before the era of superheroes began-before the Batman spread his wings to protect the innocent and punish the evil-Gotham City's prodigal son, Bruce Wayne, had been missing for years. But this was exactly the cover of darkness Bruce needed. Patrolling Gotham's streets in a series of disguises, he began a career as a faceless vigilante.

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The reader will experience the story from Batmans viewpoint on pages 108-117. After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect. Batman has heard tales of Gotham Citys Court of Owls: that the members of this powerful cabal are the true rulers of Gotham. The Dark Knight dismissed the stories as rumors and old wives tales. Gotham was his city. Until now. A brutal assassin is sinking his razor-sharp talons into the citys best and brightest, as well as its most dangerous and deadly. If the dark legends are true, his masters are more powerful predators than the Batman could ever imagine. This now-classic graphic novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo is not just fantastic jumping-on point for any new reader, but one of the great Batman stories ever told. With every year that passes, this masterpiece becomes more entrenched into this mediums pantheon of the greatest stories ever told. Collects issues #1-7 of Batman. Lire la suite Fermer