James Gordon's Retirement Party

[espanolbot]

At the official retirement dinner for Commissioner Gordon, following his attempted murder and his wife's actual murder via the Joker, Sasha Bordeaux, Bruce Wayne's official bodyguard and the only famous Swiss person in the DCU, is getting frustrated.

Having put up with Bruce's playboy nonsense all night, she finds that he's once again disappeared while she's supposed to be guarding him. This was after she'd already yelled at him for repeatedly sneaking off, as she was hired by his company to keep him safe, and if she has no idea where he is half the time, how is she meant to be able to do her job.

Storming off to the men's loos, she attempts to track down her playboy client,







And as a bonus, here's a cute page from before the above scans, with Bruce and Stacy the GCPD temp, who shows up in a larger role in Gotham Central, having fun with the "wacky" billionaire,

Comments

[espanolbot]

They dicked him about in regards to when his Batwoman series would start, until he just gave up and walked off to Marvel. Same in regards to the other great Bat Writer from this time, Ed Brubaker, whose long running storylines were hijacked by crossover events of the likes of War Games.

Having to play ball with other writers and your editorial is one thing, but it's annoying to get midway through a story only for things to just be abandoned, eg Chuck Dixon's Batman and the Outsiders run which just stopped midstory as a result of RIP happening.

[mrstatham]

I was being kinda rhetorical, since I know about Greg's issues with DC, but still. DC should've extended an olive branch to the guy. Imagine if we'd still have him at DC, he'd be writing Batwoman still and writing Detective Comics, I'd like to wager. Also, Rucka going to Marvel was actually something of a surprise, since I remember him saying he was done with mainstream superhero comics for a while.

[espanolbot]

Unlikely for the time being, as Marvel seems to have a habit of making their higher profile talent sign exclusive deals with them, like Brian Hitch who just got free from it to do that comic with Jonathan Ross.

Paul Cornell managed to escape due to the impression I got that Marvel didn't seem to know what to do with him, for some reason.

[halloweenjack]

I wonder if it was simply a matter of the other "architects" not wanting to share the spotlight with him.