When your biggest disappointment with a comic is that it just didn’t have another 100 pages in the issue or the lick and a prayer of some hope of continuing the series, suffice it to say you’ve enjoyed your reading experience. Gotham by Midnight comes to its cataclysmic finale at the hands of writer Ray…

Gotham by Midnight takes us to the edge of an apocalypse for the City of the Bat. Ikkondrid has risen from the swamp more powerful than ever, the Midnight Shift has been dispersed (and dispatched by the looks of it at the close of the previous issue as Drake and Corrigan seem to have met…

Ironically titled “Nothing Will Stop Us”, Gotham by Midnight No. 10 picks up where we left off: Jim Corrigan covered in gore and his world collapsing around him. Equally, it meets the bar set in the previous issue with a story that manages to further the plot and character development despite the majority of it…

I am genuinely stunned by what just happened in this book. Literally, my jaw dropped as I turned the pages toward the climax. That look on Jim’s face at the end: confused, horrified, destroyed: that was me. Ray Fawkes has delivered a bona fide holocaust masquerading as a run-of-the-mill police procedural. Consider me standing and…

For a moment there, I thought it was going to be a week full of crazed man-hungry tigers (see Batgirl No. 43) as this installment, “The Jungle”, sports the image of a tiger among the the Midnight Shift team members in the issue opener. The tiger here is more metaphoric even though it’s literally present…

Gotham by Midnight gets its own annual, which, though a bit surprising, is certainly very welcome given the overall quality of the book and the range of possibilities available to the mixed cast. Detective Drake is front and center in this tale called "The Gentleman Ghost" (should be obvious from the cover), about the return…

“Nobody Cares” is the title of this venture into the teeming dark underbelly of Gotham City, the irony being in the juxtaposition of a demon who makes people so apathetic they literally lay down and die vs. the Midnight Shift who, in spite of suspicion from Internal Affairs, the death of Sister Justine, and Jim…

When we left the Midnight Shift back in March, a cataclysm had occurred. The team had come up against the evil consciousness of the wronged early inhabitants of Gotham who had been systematically destroyed by early settlers to make way for the colonists. Though they managed to save Gotham from the wrath of both the…

Last issue we ended with a clash of titans as the Spectre faced off against the murky creature of genocide Ikkondrid smack-dab down in Gotham while a familiar Batplane zipped into the light of the fray. It was an epic cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers, so how does it all turn out? What’s the payoff?…

You thought you were just going to get another installment of “how the gang got together” highlighting Dr. Tarr, didn’t you? Ray Fawkes and Ben Templesmith pull a fast one and overturn a whole box of toys in this issue entitled “We Fight what We Become”. No need for a mad scramble, though: everything dumped…

Last month I predicted that Gotham by Midnight was following a split-narrative formula of advancing the plot incrementally while introducing us to the origins of the Midnight Team and this month’s issue, titled “We Become what We Fight” confirms it. This go-round we get the backstory on Lisa Drake, who fulfills the role of abrasive…

“We Will Not Rest” picks right up from where issue no. 1 left us--in the grip of a hideous beast-nun who’s got a schoolroom full of “infected” children. We still don’t know much about Detective Drake and Doctor Tarr, which has me a bit flummoxed. I almost feel like the team is too big and…

Ray Fawkes and Ben Templesmith have produced something in Gotham by Midnight that is as different as it is refreshing: a new lens with which to experience Gotham and all of its haunted underpinnings. The supernatural has been a part of Batman’s world for at least the least the last 40 years with varying degrees…