detective comics 808 (spoilers)

[EmmaFrostSlavingFanBoy]

I sort of like city of crime. But in this issue I don't understand what happened in the hospital. There are cops looking at the hospital bed with scarface lying in it, then Robin throws some sort of concussion grenade to knock out the three cops.

What I don't get is how Wesker is then in bed and the 3 cops are gone and then Gordon comes over and no one in the GCPD wonders what happened to the three cops and now the hospital floor is empty?

Three cops go missing and it gets noticed. No one in the hospital heard the explosion? I'm willing to suspend belief--I read comics, but was there a LOT left on the editing room floor?

Did my issue have some missing pages?

Overall I like this story. Right now Detective has the best Batman, not this mean dude we've see since War Games and Crisis whatever.

[Beatnikman]

Did my issue have some missing pages?
Probably not.

City of Crime has been a horrible, convoluted, and, worst of all, pretty boring story. Maybe I should go back and read the earlier issues in this story, but I just don't want to. I've been buying Detective Comics for probably 8 or 9 years straight, but I'm really thinking about not even buying the rest of this story, because I just don't care.

I haven't read any of Lapham's novels, and I'm sure he's a generally a capable writer, but this (way too long) story just isn't doing anything for me.

[riftt]

go back to archie then

[EmmaFrostSlavingFanBoy]

Probably not.

City of Crime has been a horrible, convoluted, and, worst of all, pretty boring story. Maybe I should go back and read the earlier issues in this story, but I just don't want to. I've been buying Detective Comics for probably 8 or 9 years straight, but I'm really thinking about not even buying the rest of this story, because I just don't care.

I haven't read any of Lapham's novels, and I'm sure he's a generally a capable writer, but this (way too long) story just isn't doing anything for me.

I liked City of Crime better when the story dealt with the missing girl and the dead rich girl and the baby ring, but the ending felt rushed to it. I don't feel any tie between what's happening now with Scarface and what happened before with Penguin and the baby ring.

[cletus510]

What I don't get is how Wesker is then in bed and the 3 cops are gone and then Gordon comes over and no one in the GCPD wonders what happened to the three cops and now the hospital floor is empty?

Three cops go missing and it gets noticed. No one in the hospital heard the explosion? I'm willing to suspend belief--I read comics, but was there a LOT left on the editing room floor?
Reading between the lines (which has been required for this arc), we have to assume that the three cops are "sand people," or whatever the clones are called. Then I assumed that the hospital was empty for one of two reasons: either the normal human hospital workers were ordered to clear out by these cops, or--as Ivers said he feared--the hospital workers themselves are sand people. In any case, the floor became empty, and Robin recognized the danger they were in. (It reminded me of The Godfather, where Michael had to protect his father in the empty hospital.)

As far as why no one noticed the cops missing, I assumed that they were never sent by the GCPD, but rather by The Body, so no one at the GCPD knows anything about it. However, I think you might be misunderstanding something. You said that Gordon shows up, but no one from the GCPD notices the cops missing. Remember that Gordon is retired from the force, so he knows nothing about its goings on. He wouldn't know that minutes earlier, three "cops" were sent to finish Wesker. As far as I can tell, there has been nothing to suggest what anyone knows about what Robin did. Only minutes may have passed from when Robin destroyed the clones and when Gordon shows up at the door.

Anyways, not entirely clear, but I can live with it.

[chriskenny]

I am really enjoying the City of Crime. It is a great story and I love Lapham's take on all the familiar Gotham characters. I am really enjoying the art quite a bit. Nice solid work.