The second volume of the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning GOTHEM CENTRAL series is collected in hardcover, brought to you by acclaimed writers Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka, and artist Michael Lark, with additional art by Greg Scott, Brian Hurtt and Stefano Gaudiano. This volume also features an introduction by Duane Swierczynski.

Cops just don't have it easy in the city of the bat. Not only do they have to deal with the violence and corruption of the world's most notoriously crime-infested city, catering to some of the most insane and homicidal criminals, but they also have to deal with a vigilante who's hellbent on playing by his own rules.

And to make things worse, the Joker is terrorizing the city at Christmastime--randomly executing people with a rifle, and no one from the Mayor on down is safe! Plus, more stories involving the girl whose job it is to turn on the Bat-signal, a series of gruesome murders that grab the attention of The Huntress, and an old case of unfinished business for disgraced detective Harvey Bullock.

Collects issues 11-22 of the original series

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艾德·布魯貝剋的早期作品包括獲艾斯納奬提名的《意外死亡》及《罪案現場》等。之後他為DC主綫以及其旗下的成人副綫 Vertigo 和 WildStorm 公司創作瞭許多經典作品。包括《蝙蝠俠》《走投無路》《沉睡者》《貓女》《哥譚重案組》等。

時下，他為漫威公司寫作，並奉獻瞭《超膽俠》《X戰警》《美國隊長：鼕日戰士》等一大批膾炙人口的作品。

格雷格·盧卡是一名知名作傢，他的小說作品包括《午夜槍擊》《臨界空間》《愛國者法案》《私人戰爭》及《紳士的遊戲》等。在漫畫方麵，他參與瞭許多知名角色和作品的創作，如《蝙蝠俠》《偵探漫畫》《動作漫畫》《神奇女俠》《金剛狼》等。他與傑夫·瓊斯、格蘭特·莫裏森及馬剋·韋德閤作瞭《52》。同艾德·布魯貝剋閤作瞭《哥譚重案組》和《超膽俠》。

邁剋爾·拉剋的一生都獻身於繪畫事業。但他直到1994年纔進入主流漫畫行業，為Vertigo公司創作瞭《終點之城》。自此以後，他那黑色電影的繪畫風格齣現在《罪案現場》《鷹男傳奇》《睡魔神秘劇場》《超人：世界之戰》《蝙蝠俠：九條命》《哥譚重案組》等作品中。他也是暢銷書作傢邁剋爾·查邦第一部漫畫作品《美國正義協會》的繪畫作者。