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A review by marklpotter
Zero Year by Jorge Lucas, Travis Moore, Brian Buccellato, Juan Castro, Jeff Lemire, Romano Molenaar, Jeremy Haun
2.0
I guess I needed more back story to jump in to this GN. I read this as a recommendation and found it rather disjointed and hard to keep up with. I'm not a huge fan of DC, or Marvel for that matter, outside of a couple of titles so it's possible that the multiple perspectives presented here had something to do with my enjoyment.
Zero Year is also a perfect representation of one of the major problems I have with the big two in comic books: tie-ins. Far too many story arcs require you to purchase multiple books in order to get the whole story. While I understand this one a small and infrequent scale, it seems to have become the norm. It smacks of nothing more than a cheap way to get people to pick up other books and I feel it lessens the overall impact of single titles. Sure a world event every now and then is great but how many have there been lately? Way too many involving way too many titles. I am burned out on it and I know other comic book readers I speak to are as well.
Zero Year is also a perfect representation of one of the major problems I have with the big two in comic books: tie-ins. Far too many story arcs require you to purchase multiple books in order to get the whole story. While I understand this one a small and infrequent scale, it seems to have become the norm. It smacks of nothing more than a cheap way to get people to pick up other books and I feel it lessens the overall impact of single titles. Sure a world event every now and then is great but how many have there been lately? Way too many involving way too many titles. I am burned out on it and I know other comic book readers I speak to are as well.