{"id":207,"date":"2007-04-25T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=207"},"modified":"2014-05-08T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T11:18:43","slug":"gotham-central-half-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/25\/gotham-central-half-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotham Central: Half a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/gchal.jpg\" alt=\"Gotham Central: Half a Life\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Greg Rucka<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Michael Lark<\/strong> (DC Comics)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84576-091-3<\/p>\n<p>The second collection of this procedural cop thriller set in the urban hell of Gotham City is another superb study in genre-crossing. The action centres around the framing and persecution of long-time supporting character Renee Montoya, a detective in good standing who suddenly finds herself utterly alone, in the un-friendliest job in the world, in the nastiest town on Earth. As part of the Major Crimes Unit she&#8217;s seen how bad Batman&#8217;s enemies can get, but this time she&#8217;s the target, not the hunter, and not just her life is at stake.<\/p>\n<p>This engrossing drama never steps outside of human bounds irrespective of the nature of crime in Gotham, and the original comic presentation (from issues #6-10) won Eisner, Harvey, Eagle and Prism awards for Best Story. Also included in this volume are two earlier tales from Montoya&#8217;s past (<strong>Batman Chronicles<\/strong> #16 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>Two Down,<\/em> by Rucka and Jason Pearson &amp; Cam Smith, and <strong>Detective Comics<\/strong> #747 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>Happy Birthday Two You,<\/em> by Rucka, William Rosado and Steve Mitchell) that, although stand alone tales at time of publication, lead directly into the tragic events collected here.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always difficult to recommend stuff to comics virgins. This is something even your girlfriend won&#8217;t laugh at. Go on, see for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Greg Rucka &amp; Michael Lark (DC Comics) ISBN 1-84576-091-3 The second collection of this procedural cop thriller set in the urban hell of Gotham City is another superb study in genre-crossing. The action centres around the framing and persecution of long-time supporting character Renee Montoya, a detective in good standing who suddenly finds &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/25\/gotham-central-half-a-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gotham Central: Half a Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-batman","category-dc-superhero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-3l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}