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"Gotham City. Maybe that's all I can get now, maybe it's time for me to go to hell. ”

“…… It's not possible to get to Gotham City by train...... In the airplane, all you can see from the sky are the streets and buildings, which makes you mistakenly think that this is a civilized place. ”

The mix of dark tones and thick blocks of color, combined with large sections of psychological depictions in words, creates a viscous feeling that makes people breathless.

A middle-aged man arrives in Gotham City by train, and Bruce Wayne's plane is about to land.

He sat by the window and thought about something: "All you can see here is the long concrete street and the snow-covered roofs, and what has been left behind by people who died generations ago. From that point of view, it looks like an achievement. ”

"I should have taken the train. I should have gotten closer. I should see the old people. ”

The next picture clarifies the identities of these two men for Jennifer.

She was vaguely aware that these two men were destined to intertwine their fates in the near future.

James Gordon, a middle-aged man, was sidelined for fighting corruption in the Chicago police community and was transferred to Gotham City as the deputy chief of the police department. Gotham, on the other hand, is even darker than Chicago.

And Bruce Wayne is actually the heir to a large consortium, the richest and most handsome son of Gotham City?!

The police in Gotham City perfectly showed the newly appointed Vice Captain Gordon what it means to be in the same boat, what it means to collude with officials and bandits, and what it means to hold power and act arbitrarily.

James Gordon didn't want to be like them, but he was beaten up by the black police, led by Frass.

Bruce Wayne, on the other hand, is going through a fierce ideological battle, and he doesn't know what means to use to achieve his goals and change the purpose of the city.

"I'm not ready. I have the skills, I have the skills - but I don't have the means...... No, no, I have hundreds of methods, but something is always missing. Something is wrong. ”

In the footage, Bruce Wayne kicks a tree off: "I have to wait. I have to wait. ”

Then, Bruce Wayne decides to scout and stay on top of the situation, and after a little makeup, he heads to the worst and worst part of Gotham City, the East End.

It's full of gangsters, gangsters, pimps, and prostitutes, and it's become even more rotten.

Bruce Wayne rescues an underage prostitute from a pimp, causing a fight, and he easily takes out the man, but unexpectedly, the prostitute he saved stabbed a knife into his thigh.

At the same time, other prostitutes and women on the street reached for their knives and rushed up, while another young woman with short hair jumped from the second floor and attacked Bruce Wayne.

The short-haired woman named Selena hissed like a cat, and she seemed to be a little bit of karate, but she was clearly no match for Bruce Wayne, who had been brutally trained for twelve years.

Bruce Wayne knocked her out with ease.

But at this moment the police appeared and shot him in the artery.

He fell to the ground and was put into a police car by the police.

However, Bruce Wayne's strong willpower kept him awake at all times, and he managed to escape, driving his own car.

In the end, Bruce Wayne sat against the wall in his manor.

He thinks he is dying, he recalls the tragic death of his parents in front of him, and the fatal mistake he had just made left him in a great confusion.

"What should I use...... To make them afraid? ”

“…… Yes, I have it all, except patience. I'd rather die than wait another hour. I've been waiting for eighteen years. ”

At this moment, without warning, a huge bat smashed through the glass of the study and flew in.

The bat landed in front of him.

Bruce Wayne seems to be hallucinating.

“…… I've seen it before...... Somewhere...... I was a kid at the time...... It scared the hell out of me......"

“…… It freaked me out......"

"Yes, father...... I'm going to be a bat. ”

Then he rang the bell that would summon the butler and save his life.

This concludes the first chapter.

Repressed, repressed, repressed!

Jennifer felt uncomfortable chest tightness.

Is this really a comic book? It's really ...... She tried to find a suitable word to describe how she felt at this moment, but suddenly she was speechless.

Moreover, Bruce Wayne is really an ordinary person, even if he has a wealth that rivals the wealth of the country, but he is still the ordinary person who almost died just after his appearance.

Jennifer had the urge to toss the damn comic book aside, but Bruce Wayne's fate always tugged at her, and after much deliberation, she continued to read.

The second chapter is called the Battle Declaration.

James Gordon's conflict with the Gotham City Police Department is getting deeper and deeper, and he has become the most annoying thing in the Gotham police community.

And Bruce Wayne has put on the uniform of Batman, incarnated as a bat, and is active in the night, although as it seems that he is still a novice, and he is still making mistakes, even dealing with a few small thieves who steal TV sets.

He considered himself a layman, a lucky layman, but he became James Gordon's annoyance.

In this city of despair, people's fates have become intertwined.

On May 19, Batman finally made a big deal.

That night, he attacked the mayor's mansion, and at that time, almost all of Gotham City's big moths, including government officials and gang bosses, were gathering for a banquet.

Batman exploded and shot him, and in the smoke he issued a warning and an ultimatum: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have eaten and drunk enough, you have devoured the riches of Gotham City and its spirit, and your feast is coming to an end." ”

"From this moment on - none of you are safe."

Frightened and enraged, the moths threw the mission of chasing Batman to James Gordon.

Vice Captain Gordon went all out to hunt down the private enforcer, but he didn't even catch the shadow of Batman, instead, night after night, the Dark Knight terrorized the most powerful people in Gotham.

However, fate will eventually allow these two friends, who are also friends and foes, to meet.

Batman is exposed to James Gordon in order to save a homeless man who is almost hit by a truck.

Although Gordon was injured in the impact, he continued to pursue Batman, and the police officers who came after him opened fire on Batman and hit him again.

Dragging his injured thigh, Batman fled into a building, where he was ready to reach the roof before the police could get their backup, and he had to get ahead of them, this was his only chance.

However, the chief of the Gotham Police Department sent a helicopter and dropped a destructive bomb on the building where Batman was hiding, just to deal with the man who was giving the moths a headache.

After the explosion, the entire building was engulfed in flames.

By the end of the second chapter, Jennifer seems to have adapted to Frank Miller's new style, and she realizes that only those images that are clearly stylistic and colorful can fit so well with the story, and only those psychological depictions that continue to appear can reach the hearts of the characters more deeply.

Gradually, she paid more attention to the content of the comics themselves.

In other words, she was already fascinated by the comic.

So, without hesitation, she continued to look down.

The third chapter is called Black Dawn.

"They drove him into a corner, they bullied the widow with the multitude, they trapped him...... They're in trouble......"

Batman managed to avoid the explosion, though he was unable to save the homeless people in the building.

However, after the bombs were dropped one after another, and the fifth explosion sounded, the building was almost in ruins.

Heavily armed police officers begin to enter the search, even if it is a body, and they want to see the exact death of Batman with their own eyes.

Because they're scared, because Batman is the enemy of every criminal in Gotham City, including those corrupt officials.

However, the explosion did not hurt Batman, who hid in the shadows and bandaged the gunshot wound on his thigh with a white cloth.

"I messed it all up and let it get completely out of control."

This time, though, he already has enough experience that is a precursor to him becoming a real Batman.

"The enemy is approaching, unforgiving, unstoppable......"

He makes reasonable use of his props, uses his fighting skills, uses his brain, uses the terrain, and uses everything he can use.

He eliminated three squads of heavily armed policemen, and finally, he slammed him against the wall with a combat-neutral policeman.

The poor guy broke through the wall.

People screamed, roared, and then cheered, and at this moment, people thought of Batman as a hero.

However, the cheers quickly dissipated and were replaced by exclamations again.

In the night sky, a large group of things flew over the sky and the moon, and soon, they came closer, rushing towards all the police and onlookers.

That's a big swarm of bats.

Real bats.

This is the helper that Batman has summoned with the supernatural wave signal tone, and he has prepared his own way out when the police are searching.

Batman snatched a motorcycle, and then, under the cover of the bats, ghostly left.

The police chased them for twelve blocks, and when the clouds of bats cleared, they realized that was all they were chasing.

Batman has long since disappeared.

This encirclement and suppression ended in a complete defeat for the police.

However, the quick-witted James Gordon has become suspicious of Bruce Wayne and decides to investigate him, but while he is doing all this, he also falls into a huge self-reproach for betraying his pregnant wife and getting involved with his subordinates.

At the same time, Selena, the short-haired prostitute who was easily knocked out by Bruce Wayne in the first chapter, wears a uniform like a cat.

She decided to change careers, and she became an adventure-loving thief.

She's Catwoman.

These details have changed the lives of some people, and let more people's fates continue to sink or fight in the dark city.

This concludes the third chapter.

Jennifer's hanging heart relaxed, as a reader who didn't know much about superhero comics, she didn't know what the meaning of this comic was for the time being, but the relaxed plot still made her devote herself to the comics, and she couldn't wait to see the ending.

Chapter 4 is called Friends in Distress.

Just by looking at the name, you can see that those whose humanity has not yet been completely swallowed up by darkness, and who still have a shining point are about to come together and work together to deal with evil.

"He's ready to clean up a filthy city. He can't do it alone. ”

It's September.

James Gordon arrests Gotham City's big drug lord Jefferson Skyforths, but in the city where officials and bandits collude, the police chief and some of the police such as Frass are also involved in this vast drug network.

As a result, the notorious drug lord was quickly released on bail.

And, to make matters worse, key witnesses are prepared to testify in court for perjury.

James Gordon's self-reliance and the law were useless at this point, and he had nothing he could do.

So, Batman came out.

At this time, he has gradually grown up, and he is getting closer and closer to the future reconnaissance experts, intimidation masters, interrogation masters, and law enforcers who are violent but do not kill.

It was Batman's first year and laid the groundwork for everything he had to come.

Batman first found the witness, using the intimidation technique that would become known around the world: "You'll never escape the palm of my hand...... Bullets don't hurt me, nothing hurts me, but I know pain, I know pain - sometimes I let others taste it, let people like you taste it. ”

No one was able to keep their composure under Batman's mental attack, and the witness quickly confessed and pleaded guilty.

Frass, who was involved in the drug trade, was arched.

However, the bigger people behind it are starting to do something, and while they can't do anything about Batman, they can deal with James Gordon.

They threaten him with pictures of Gordon's cheating, but Gordon resolves the problem with self-reproach.

So, they tricked James Gordon out of his apartment on the pretext of being an emergency police officer, and then sent someone to snatch their newborn child.

Although James Gordon caught the problem in time, the child was caught in the car and taken away.

At this time, a motorcycle was activated.

In desperation, James Gordon pulled the trigger of his pistol, and the man with the helmet fell to the ground. James Gordon grabbed the motorcycle and chased it out.

"Don't move, I'll kill you." James Gordon's wife, Barbara, holds a gun and points it at the man who has fallen to the ground.

The man took off his helmet, and it was Bruce Wayne.

"Mrs. Gordon, you must trust me. I'm not going to let your son die. ”

Barbara didn't shoot.

Bruce Wayne snatched the bicycle of a postman on the side of the road and began to chase after him.

James Gordon, on the other hand, hit the tires of the sedan with a pistol, and the car hit the railing of the bridge and stopped.

The man holding the baby rushed out of the car with a knife and wrestled with James Gordon.

James Gordon was crushed to the railing, and his son fell off the bridge, and then he grabbed the man and fell from the bridge with him.

"No!"

James Gordon shouted.

At this time, another figure also jumped off the bridge, and he grabbed the baby.

The child was safe and sound, but was frightened and began to cry.

Although James Gordon's glasses fell to the ground, he could see clearly the appearance of this man from such a close distance, the man he had just shot, the person he most suspected of being Batman, Bruce Wayne.

"You must have some kind of armor underneath your clothes." James Gordon is sorry for the shot he just fired.

"Yes."

James Gordon hugged his baby and said, "You know, I don't have my glasses, I'm like I'm blind...... The police car is coming, you'd better get out. ”

These two people, who arrived in Gotham City at the same time, finally met at this time, and became the kind of friends who fought together against the enemy, just like a predetermined fate.

At the end of the story, Frass confesses to the police chief, who has to resign and will face legal punishment.

James Gordon was promoted to captain.

In the final storyboards, Captain Gordon goes to the roof with his pipe in his mouth, and he looks at the city, the city he is about to fight and fight for.

"There was just a real panic incident where someone threatened to poison the Gotham reservoir."

"He calls himself a clown."

"I have a friend coming, and he might be able to help."

"He'll come here any time."

This is the end of the story, and Jennifer closes the comic in a daze.

It was the first comic she had read in its entirety, but she felt that there was probably no better comic in the world.

This is a real classic, and even if she is a comic rookie, she can feel that this realistic, cruel, heavy, and depressing comic may become a benchmark for a new form of comics.

She also understood why William would rather work an extra week of night shifts to get her help buy the comic.

This kind of charm that surpasses ordinary comics is almost irresistible.

Jennifer believes that there will be more people who share her and think the same way as her.

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ps: I forgot to mention that the preface of the previous chapter is basically based on the preface of the American comic god Multivac and the preface of Frank Miller, the author of the real-world "Batman: Year One", plus some of my own knowledge and understanding of Batman, which is hereby explained. Plus, "Batman: Year One" is indeed a classic of classics and worth watching.

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