Gotham Central, Case by Case: DAYDREAMS AND BELIEVERS

By Bruno Savill De Jong — Following the long dramatic storyline of “Half a Life”, it seems the single-issue “Daydreams and Believers” will be a relaxing break. Brian Hurtt temporarily replaces Michael Lark with a softer and rounder art-style, and Lark himself gives an Alex Toth/John Romita Sr/Romance Comics tribute cover between Batman and Stacy, a fantasy which loosely frames the story. Stacy, the GCPD’s secretary, narrates “Daydreams and Believers” (a focused focalization rare to Gotham Central), which operates like a backdoor-introduction to the GCPD staff seen from her perspective.

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The Sixth Gun #1 - CLASSIC COMIC OF THE WEEK

By d. emerson eddy — As we travel further down that dusty western trail, we realize that it's becoming less and less a trail well-travelled, maybe not even a path now, and we're getting tangled up in a messy bramble growing out of what looks to be a swamp. The horses don't much like it, but you notice that one of them is now skeletal and the other appears to be speaking an indigenous language no one thought was extant. We've strained far from the westerns of old and are back in one of my favorite realms, the weird western. And to another modern masterpiece, The Sixth Gun from Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt.

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