As I’ve said, I think it took a few books for John Ridley’s DC Comics work to hit its stride, but once it did, there’s been no looking back.
The latter books of I Am Batman have been excellent, and GCPD: The Blue Wall is the exclamation point on what seems to be the end of Ridley’s tenure — more dramatic and more controversial than everything that preceded it. The GCPD miniseries very much picks up from threads and situations in Greg Rucka and Ed Brubaker’s Gotham Central, not to mention that GCPD artist Stefano Raffaele would be right at home trading off with Central’s Michael Lark. If Gotham Central mainly focused on rookie cops, this would be it.
