1. “Unresolved” (Issues 19-22)
I really like a good cop drama and a good mystery so it’s fitting that this is my absolute bar-none favorite Gotham Central story.
After a hostage situation ends in blood, Detective Driver re-opens a disturbing cold case looking for new information. Brand new evidence points them straight at the Mad Hatter, but this is anything but an open and shut case. Especially when Driver and new partner Detective MacDonald discover that the previous Detective on the case was disgraced former officer Harvey Bullock. The story hurtles off towards its conclusion with corruption, fear, drunkenness and straight-up detective work looming in its wake.
“Unresolved†is the best Bullock story and showcases the MCU team at their finest in a pitch perfect detective story. The investigation is interesting and tough to predict. Bullock’s recent past (and the reasons for his firing) are dark and twisted up in Gotham’s own corruption. Let’s just say there’s a reason the cops in “Nature†idolized Bullock so much, and it ain’t a good one. “Unresolved†is the best because it is what Gotham Central was: a police procedural that takes place in a universe Batman is also in. And in the end, isn’t that just the best idea?
