Appendix
Chapter One :
Tony "The Roman" Falcone, The Falcone's are the most powerful of Gotham's Italian mafia families. In Year One, book two, Falcone, and Commisioner Loeb are seen dining together at a soiree held by the Mayor and the conversation shows clearly that they run things in Gotham together. Batman crashes the party warning them that, "From this moment on none of you are safe." Batman keeps up a terror campaign on Falcone who later meets his demise in Jeph Loeb's "The Long Halloween."
Lieutenant James Gordon at this point in his career has recently been transferred from the Chicago PD following some kind of bribe scandal. He is determined a make a fresh start with a clean slate.
Harvey Dent of course at this point is Gotham's crusading district attorney prior to the cruel attack by Boss Maroni, which led to the emergence of Harvey's "Two-Face" persona. At this point Dent has had to drop conspiracy charges against Commisioner Loeb due to the disappearance of his key witness. So clearly not a popular man around the GCPD.
Detective Flass was initially assigned as Lieutenant James Gordon's partner. Flass is a dirty cop, and close to Commisioner Loeb. Observing Gordon refusing to take a bribe he complains to the Commisioner that "Gordon is just not fitting in," and asks that he and the boys be allowed to "Soften Gordon up a little." Loeb agrees to let Flass handle it whilst he's out of town.
They attack Gordon on his way to a night shift. "They do enough damage just to keep me out of hospital," Gordon observes. A battered and bruised Gordon lies in wait for the now off duty Flass who's playing cards with the boys. Gordon takes Flass out one on one and leaves him cuffed by the roadside.
Vasily Kosov the head of the Little Odessa mob is pretty minor in comparison to The Falcone crime empire, he only really rose in prominence as the head of The Russian crime family following events in "No Man's Land." Kosov recently died at the hands of Whisper Adaire in a plot engineered by Ra's Al Ghul.
Although the question of why Kosov wants Khanaquin dead is not clearly addressed in the narrative (my fault) it is because Kosov is arranging the assassination for Ra's Al Ghul, who has a century long grudge against this family.
King Khanaquin of Qurac is my invention. Qurac was once ruled by the militant dictator President Marlo (who bears a striking resemblance to a certain middle eastern despot who allegedly DOESN'T have any chemical or biological weapons.) I figured that being an evil dictator Marlo must've usurped his power from someone so I invented the exiled king.
Eventually Marlo was captured by Superman and Qurac was nuked by the global terrorist Cheshire.
Believe it or not most DC comics writers work from an official map of Gotham City from which all the street names and directions used in the story are taken from.
Chapter Two
The first scene depicts the early signs of attraction between Gordon and Essen. Some weeks following the events covered in this story they embark on an affair, which ends when Loeb tries to blackmail Gordon by threatening to reveal the affair to his wife Barbara. Gordon tells Barbara the truth and Essen puts in for a transfer.
The briefing scene is lifted directly from Year One I've just added description to the original dialogue and made Bullock one of the crowd.
Flass was not apprehending the villains he was taking a cut from the profits of the deal, which is why Batman singled him out for rough treatment.
Chapter Three
Begins with a synopsis of events in Year One and again I've just inserted Harvey into the situation at Robinson Park.
In order to suit storytelling purposes I made a slight alteration by having Batman's confrontation with "The Cat Shooter" occur on the street in public. In Millers original the "you were the one who tried to shoot the cat" incident happened inside the derelict building then the fight spilt out onto the street after part of that building collapsed.
The woman who picks up the cat is Selena Kyle.
Billy Petit was the trigger-happy SWAT leader during DC's recent "No Man's Land" saga I thought by making him the cat shooter (who is unnamed in Year One) that this glimpse of him at an earlier stage in his career might go some way to suggesting a personal reason for his distrust of Batman during "No Man's Land."
Batman summoned the Bats by switching on an ultrasonic tone that only they can hear. A gadget he keeps in the heel of his boot.
During the fire in the building thermite in Batman's utility belt caught fire forcing him to discard it, so logically anything non-flammable in the belt would've survived intact.
As per Frank Miller everyone had to be vaccinated for Bat bites.
Skeevers is a drug dealer with whom Flass has an arrangement, related to the drug deal in Chapter Two. Eventually Batman scares Skeevers into plea bargaining with Harvey Dent in order to give up Flass who spends the next decade behind bars only to show up and attempt to exact revenge on Gordon and Essen. Currently his body is missing presumably drowned at sea.
Chapter Four
I make no apologies for the terrible Russian accents, this is a tip of the hat to Chuck Dixon who writes the KGBeest's dialogue in a similar vain, but much funnier than me!
Harvey had coated his feet with the watergel.
Nivens featured in "A Bullet For Bullock" both the comic and animated version as Harvey's long suffering landlord.
Chapter One :
Tony "The Roman" Falcone, The Falcone's are the most powerful of Gotham's Italian mafia families. In Year One, book two, Falcone, and Commisioner Loeb are seen dining together at a soiree held by the Mayor and the conversation shows clearly that they run things in Gotham together. Batman crashes the party warning them that, "From this moment on none of you are safe." Batman keeps up a terror campaign on Falcone who later meets his demise in Jeph Loeb's "The Long Halloween."
Lieutenant James Gordon at this point in his career has recently been transferred from the Chicago PD following some kind of bribe scandal. He is determined a make a fresh start with a clean slate.
Harvey Dent of course at this point is Gotham's crusading district attorney prior to the cruel attack by Boss Maroni, which led to the emergence of Harvey's "Two-Face" persona. At this point Dent has had to drop conspiracy charges against Commisioner Loeb due to the disappearance of his key witness. So clearly not a popular man around the GCPD.
Detective Flass was initially assigned as Lieutenant James Gordon's partner. Flass is a dirty cop, and close to Commisioner Loeb. Observing Gordon refusing to take a bribe he complains to the Commisioner that "Gordon is just not fitting in," and asks that he and the boys be allowed to "Soften Gordon up a little." Loeb agrees to let Flass handle it whilst he's out of town.
They attack Gordon on his way to a night shift. "They do enough damage just to keep me out of hospital," Gordon observes. A battered and bruised Gordon lies in wait for the now off duty Flass who's playing cards with the boys. Gordon takes Flass out one on one and leaves him cuffed by the roadside.
Vasily Kosov the head of the Little Odessa mob is pretty minor in comparison to The Falcone crime empire, he only really rose in prominence as the head of The Russian crime family following events in "No Man's Land." Kosov recently died at the hands of Whisper Adaire in a plot engineered by Ra's Al Ghul.
Although the question of why Kosov wants Khanaquin dead is not clearly addressed in the narrative (my fault) it is because Kosov is arranging the assassination for Ra's Al Ghul, who has a century long grudge against this family.
King Khanaquin of Qurac is my invention. Qurac was once ruled by the militant dictator President Marlo (who bears a striking resemblance to a certain middle eastern despot who allegedly DOESN'T have any chemical or biological weapons.) I figured that being an evil dictator Marlo must've usurped his power from someone so I invented the exiled king.
Eventually Marlo was captured by Superman and Qurac was nuked by the global terrorist Cheshire.
Believe it or not most DC comics writers work from an official map of Gotham City from which all the street names and directions used in the story are taken from.
Chapter Two
The first scene depicts the early signs of attraction between Gordon and Essen. Some weeks following the events covered in this story they embark on an affair, which ends when Loeb tries to blackmail Gordon by threatening to reveal the affair to his wife Barbara. Gordon tells Barbara the truth and Essen puts in for a transfer.
The briefing scene is lifted directly from Year One I've just added description to the original dialogue and made Bullock one of the crowd.
Flass was not apprehending the villains he was taking a cut from the profits of the deal, which is why Batman singled him out for rough treatment.
Chapter Three
Begins with a synopsis of events in Year One and again I've just inserted Harvey into the situation at Robinson Park.
In order to suit storytelling purposes I made a slight alteration by having Batman's confrontation with "The Cat Shooter" occur on the street in public. In Millers original the "you were the one who tried to shoot the cat" incident happened inside the derelict building then the fight spilt out onto the street after part of that building collapsed.
The woman who picks up the cat is Selena Kyle.
Billy Petit was the trigger-happy SWAT leader during DC's recent "No Man's Land" saga I thought by making him the cat shooter (who is unnamed in Year One) that this glimpse of him at an earlier stage in his career might go some way to suggesting a personal reason for his distrust of Batman during "No Man's Land."
Batman summoned the Bats by switching on an ultrasonic tone that only they can hear. A gadget he keeps in the heel of his boot.
During the fire in the building thermite in Batman's utility belt caught fire forcing him to discard it, so logically anything non-flammable in the belt would've survived intact.
As per Frank Miller everyone had to be vaccinated for Bat bites.
Skeevers is a drug dealer with whom Flass has an arrangement, related to the drug deal in Chapter Two. Eventually Batman scares Skeevers into plea bargaining with Harvey Dent in order to give up Flass who spends the next decade behind bars only to show up and attempt to exact revenge on Gordon and Essen. Currently his body is missing presumably drowned at sea.
Chapter Four
I make no apologies for the terrible Russian accents, this is a tip of the hat to Chuck Dixon who writes the KGBeest's dialogue in a similar vain, but much funnier than me!
Harvey had coated his feet with the watergel.
Nivens featured in "A Bullet For Bullock" both the comic and animated version as Harvey's long suffering landlord.
