![]() ![]() If you’re thinking “okay, that actually sounds kind of awesome,” go read the comic and don’t see this movie, because you will be disappointed. Yes, it’s actually Jack the f*cking Ripper, in America, in a setting with Batman. Perhaps something less than a King Ripper. ![]() There’s a serial killer stalking prostitutes in the night around the city. You might ask why I didn’t say Benjamin Harrison’s time in office, but I think more of you probably would ask “Who the f*ck is Benjamin Harrison?” It’s that guy. The year is… sometime in the Victorian Era, but we’re still in America, so let’s say it’s between Grover Cleveland’s administrations. It’s such a fitting setting that when someone suggested adapting it into a videogame a few years back, I thought it would be a perfect follow-up Batman game to the Arkham series. In other words, it’s the absolute perfect time for a Batman story to take place. Serial killers, muggers, and some real-life supervillain-esque crimebosses. Think about all of the fictional depictions of nights in London at that time, and that’s how this version of Gotham is depicted. In fact, it’s the first “Elseworlds” comic and is still considered one of the best ones. Something better.Gotham By Gaslight is a famous Elseworlds (alternate universe) Batman comic which takes place in a version of Victorian London that just happens to be called Gotham City. Alfred: Hyah! Bruce: Do these belong to you, Alfred? Alfred: Good Lord, no, sir. You, on the other hand, would never make it out of the chorus. Didn't you know? I'm the toast of Gotham. Constable: Lucky bugger.īruce: You were very convincing. Anything else, gentlemen? Constable: Uh, no. Dangerous characters on the streets tonight. You'll not go away hungry.Ĭonstable: Open up! Open up in the name of the law! Bruce: Is there a problem, officer? Constable: Uh. Alfred: I occasionally have odd jobs that need doing. Look, knock Jason around a little if you want, but please don't get the cops. Dickie: Sister Leslie did what she could for us. You think that's how Sister Leslie would want you to act at her own funeral? Jason: But I'm hungry! Dickie: Mister, Jason here, he's not worth the trouble. Alfred: I'm afraid you lack the subtlety to be an effective cut purse, young fellow, my lad. I will repay, sayeth the Lord." She wouldn't want you to be alone right now. Alfred: Does it, sir? "Beloved, avenge not yourselves, vengeance is mine. One of the few people who knew me as a boy.Īlfred: I've laid out your mourning clothes. Which you, no doubt, learned from our mutual friend, Sister Leslie Thompkins. Selina: Nothing else? Bruce: That you take it upon yourself to act as champion of the voiceless. That some traumatic event, possibly connected to the scar on your left arm that you're trying to conceal, led you to the continent, where you reinvented yourself as a night club performer. Selina: And what have you learned? Bruce: Only that you were raised in a small, regional circus, probably in a family of performers. Selina: A mutual friend told me you like to solve mysteries, ever since you were a boy. The Dionysus Club cannot tolerate a doorman who is blind. Bruce: If he was, I'd have to have him dismissed. Selina: I don't think the doorman was quite convinced that I'm a man. And before you gallantly offer to escort me home, let me assure you, I am quite capable of. Selina Kyle: I don't need or want your help. He's more skilled than I would have thought. I'll never have a better chance of stopping that butcher and you squandered it, playing the knight in shining armor! I can take care of myself. Batman: I hope you're not hurt, Miss.? Selina Kyle: Damn you! You're a fool. ![]() Batman: He won't be chasing anyone for a long time. Or we run off from something even worse than this. Dickie: Just a story they tell to keep young turfs like us from making an honest living. Too bad for you.ĭialogue Jason: What, are you scared of the dark, Little Tim? Timmy: Nah, it's just. Big Bill Dust: You're the galumph who's been making a nuisance of yourself all over Gotham, ain't ya? Well, now you're in Big Bill Dust's territory, interfering with my amiable Cock Robins. ![]()
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