Warning! Spoilers ahead for Batman: Dark Age #5Commissioner Gordon was one of Batman The most trusted allies went all the way back to the debut of the character in 1939, but a new twist on how the Commish got the job actually works in the Gotham Rogues. In the alternate continuity of Batman: Dark AgeIt turns out that Gordon’s promotion from captain to police commissioner was done to make him less effective on a street level.
Ra’s al Ghul has officially arrived in Gotham, and he ensures Captain James Gordon is promoted to Commissioner of the GCPD in Batman: Dark Age #5 by Mark Russell and Michael Allred. “I have bad news“, explained Gordon after calling Batman with the bat-signal.”I’ve been promoted.“
While it would be easy to assume that this would be a good thing for Gotham, Batman thinks the promotion will actually limit what Gordon can accomplishStating: “The closer you are to the top, the easier you are to control.” An underlying series metaphor thus far has been the chess game between Ra’s and Batman, with the final move putting Bruce in control.
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From a bishop to a king
Batman: Dark Age Provides a whole new take on Batman’s origins, following Bruce Wayne’s journey through real time after his parents were killed in 1957. The alternate continuity sees Wayne join an elite black ops squad in Vietnam led by Ra’s Al Ghul as part of his training . Bruce eventually leaves the squad when he finds that Ra’s deadly methods are not to his liking, taking what he has learned and instead becoming the Batman to fight crime and corruption in his own city. It was eventually revealed that Ra’s has been manipulating things behind the scenes in GothamAnd he comes in 1976 to take the city for himself.
Batman: Dark Age Set some major events that will put Batman at war for the soul of Gotham.
“Ra’s took a bishop and turned him into a king“, Batman noted, remembering his time in Vietnam as a member of Ra’s al Ghul’s black ops team.”in Vietnam,Batman says, “When an officer became a problem, and it was too much trouble to question them, the next best thing was to promote them.“It’s a fascinating take on a well-worn classic element of the Batman mythology — that of Gordon’s role as Commissioner — and is in keeping with Dark Age’s New perspective on Batman and his world. Ra’s hopes to keep Gordon in check Not by taking him down a notch, but rather by keeping him under an institution’s heavy thumb.
Batman fights for Gotham City in Batman: Dark Age
Check out the series conclusion in Dark Age #6, available November 13, 2024
Batman: Dark Age Set up some major events that will put Batman at war for the soul of Gotham, with the fifth issue ending with the reveal of the Joker. The multiversal villain Pariah has already taken control of Wayne Enterprises, which means the Dark Age The world may be in crisis when history reaches the 1980s. Batman Will need all the allies he can get if he’s going head-to-head against all the threats that makes Commissioner Gordon’s Rise even more of an obstacle in the battle for Gotham City.
Batman: Dark Age #5 is available now from DC Comics.
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