samedi 1 mars 2014

Gotham underground

Gotham City may be under Batman's protection, but what if the Dark Knight detective wasn't there when his city needed him? With an underworld power vacuum caused by the death of Black Mask, Gotham's gang are running riot in the streets. A war is brewing between the masked super-vilains and the anti-mask mobsters, led by Tobias Whale and the Penguin who supposedly went legit months ago. To confront the growing crisis, Bruce Wayne goes undercover as his gangster alter ego, Matches Malone... and ends up incarcerated in Blackgate Prison with a price on his head and no means of escape. With almost all of Batman's Rogues Gallery caught up in the gang war, it will take Robin, Nightwing, Oracle and the rest of the extended Bat-family to prevent Gotham from falling into utter chaos. If they fail, the next person to wind up underground in Gotham could be Batman himself.

Batman : Gotham underground
Scénario de Frank Tieri
Dessin de J. Calafiore
Couleurs de Brian Reber
Édité chez DC Comics
en novembre 2008
I.S.B.N. 978-1-4012-1928-4


Je pense que j'ai lu la plupart de cet album en press-book, parce qu'aucune surprise, je connaissais quasiment tout ce qui se passe. Du coup, l'intérêt est assez amoindri, surtout quand l'histoire n'est pas franchement grandiose. Le côté Batman est sympa, ça change un peu, mais le côté guerre de gangs n'est tellement pas à la hauteur de War games qui est une trilogie géniale. Ajoutons à cela des dessins vraiment pas top et pleins de fautes, et ça donne un tome pas terrible.