Gotham By Midnight 7, DC Comics, cover-dated September
2015.“Nobody Cares,” by Ray Fawkes, with art by Juan Ferreyra. Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz.
Precinct Thirteen is in trouble.
They’re in trouble with Internal Affairs, as the team has lost their
administrative protector. Lt. Weaver admits that “Gordon used to shield us.
Didn’t matter how weird we were, or how low are numbers were.” But Kate Spencer,
the special investigator, may not be buying it.
And they are all recovering
emotionally from the loss of Sister Justine. The team is fraying, as is
Detective Jim Corrigan’s sense of self. In the acts of cleaning up her
apartment, packing her things, he ponders as he can only do when alone. He is
working through things, and we see his private pain.
“I’m not supposed to have any
regrets. I’m an agent of Heaven.”
He quotes St. Augustine, and then asks
God for mercy. “Please,” he adds.
And then the team gets called in
to tackle an eerie situation, because in Gotham City there is always another
eerie situation for the team to tackle. People in an apartment building seem to
have just given up on life, lying down and dying. Corrigan arrives, identifies the
cause as a particular brand of demon, and orders his team to evacuate the
building. The Spectre is coming.
And Ferreyra does a great job
portraying the eerie power that the makes up the embodiment of the Wrath of God. Corrigan does not fight the transformation this time, and seems to revel in the destruction of this particular form of evil.
And again, Internal Affairs
wonders exactly what happened. And Corrigan’s team wonders what will happen to
the city if something happens to them.
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