The Call of Duty: The Precinct

by Bruce Jones

Ordinary New York City cop Frankie "Gunz" Gunzer now has a new call to duty -- not just to uphold the law, but to save all humanity. Emergencies on the brink of disaster are around every corner when you're riding the Wagon, and saving lives in danger is what you do.

Genres: Comics

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2003

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

**Review is for all four I could runs I found

If someone could tell me what I'm missing with these, I'd appreciate it. 19 issues spread over four separate runs, but it still feels like a whole lot is missing and with such a generic brand title as "The Call" or "The Call of Duty" my search skills can't find more info. I only ran across it at all in a teaser section at the end of a "Hood" comic.
The series itself has an interesting premise - normal first responders and the drama they face - but it quickly devolves into a time travel/supervillain cape-show that feels to poorly established to be self contained but at the same time to poorly integrated to belong in the larger Marvel 'verse.

[Travis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Marvel did several of these minis, about protective services (police, firefighters and EMTs).
In theory, they were set in the MU, but in reality, there was practically no evidence to back that up.

So, a pretty cool idea ended up being a rather blah, cliche'd police story.

[R. Archer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this because an excerpt was shown in Marvel Knights, except it WASN’T EVEN SHOWN and the story makes little sense. I guess I have to unfortunately read the whole saga to find out what the little ghost kid has to do with anything.
Also, stop killing your good characters challenge PLEASE

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book deals with the time traveling girl, as well as drug dealers, the usual scum, and the differences between two brothers. One brother is a priest who has an affair with his brother's wife. It is a very poignant story

Once again, this book deals with the after-effects of 9/11. You actually meet the police officer character in the previous book as he tells a brief bit about his experiences to the firefighter and the paramedic. In this book, you get to see his encounter with the time traveling girl.

[Brent · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I would read most anything by writer/artist Bruce Jones or artist Tom Mandrake.
This tale, a cop story, has supernatural elements, but the human soap opera is what really worked for me.
Recommended.