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La grande corsa al Polo Nord capita una sola volta nella vita e sta per iniziare proprio adesso. Il premio? Il vincitore potrà esprimere il suo desiderio più grande, e magicamente si realizzerà! Shen e Sika vogliono arrivare primi a tutti i costi, ma la strada per la vittoria è costellata di troll di neve, mostri marini e una banda di Yeti MOOOLTO affamati! Ma Shen e Sika hanno una cosa che gli altri concorrenti non hanno. Anzi, in realtà, sono 66 cose: carlini per l’esattezza! E ciò significa una slitta trainata da 264 zampe. Che la corsa cominci!

Dalla coppia di autori di “Oliver e le isole vagabonde” una nuova spassosa avventura: una folle corsa sui ghiacci per realizzare i propri sogni fra troll di neve, mostri marini e una banda di Yeti!

“La grande corsa al polo nord” di Philip Reeve e Sarah McIntyre è prenotabile alla pagina: http://www.rbbg.it/opac/detail/view/bg:catalog:719406

Summary:

5 times Shiro got hugged by the team.

Written pre-Season 2 but I think we need it more now.

Also, nominally takes place in the Spectrum verse, but that only matters in chapter five.

Pairing: Gen

The series stars the members of the Gotham City Police Department, who sometimes perform heroic feats. But the members of the GCPD are not superheroes. More often than not, these merely human figures contend with their own impotence amid a world of superpowered heroes & villains. 2/7

The GCPD is also rife with internal divisions, corruption, and prejudice, which are on full display in one of the series’ most well-remembered stories, the arc “Half a Life” from issues #6-10, in which lesbian Detective Renee Montoya is outed by her colleagues (with a little help from Two-Face).3/7

During its initial 40-issue run, Gotham Central didn’t sell particularly well. But it was critically praised, helping secure writing awards for Brubaker & Rucka. The “Half a Life” arc also received a 2004 Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story and a Harvey Award for Best Single Issue. 4/7

Gotham Central has also been remarkably influential. While there hasn’t been a direct televisual adaptation of the series, the Fox TV series “Gotham” (2014-19) and MAX’s “The Penguin” (2024), which are similarly crime fictions set in Batman’s world sans Batman, undoubtedly owe it a debt. 5/7

And in the wake of "Half a Life," Renee Montoya became one of mainstream superhero comics’ most prominent LGBTQ+ characters. In comics, she became The Question and would appear in numerous adaptations, including the TV series “Gotham” and “Batwoman” (2019-22) and the film “Birds of Prey” (2020). 6/7

For comics scholars, Gotham Central offers rewarding opportunities to discuss dynamics of revisionism, the ethics of violence in superhero stories, issues of representation, and the art of perspective in comics. In the weeks ahead, we’ll discuss all of that and more. Stay tuned! 7/7