Scott Synder was born to write Batman. After careful consideration i am sure of this. His run on Detective comics is hitting on everything i love about batman. The gadgets, the nature of good and evil, and mysteries. Not to mention the pitch perfect tone and voices of the characters. It is as if someone took the best examples of stories told in the Batman universe and smashed them together leaving us with only the best fragments mixed together into one perfect whole. It is Year One meets Gotham Central. Yet there is something different. As great as Gotham Central was, and i think it was great, It did not star Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock.

It would be remiss if i didnt talk about Francavillas art. He reminds me of a MIchael Lark and RM Guera. HIs use of light and dark along with muddy colors , which he uses to give the feeling that this is a dirty lived in world, a used to perfection.It is some of the finest art of the stands today. It conveys exactly the emotions it wants to while clearly moving the action forward, while finding the time to dazzle us with fantastic layouts.

A must read for many batman fan.