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A review by marklpotter
DC Comics: Zero Year by Van Jensen, Greg Pak, Chris Sprouse, Vic Drujiniu, Kyle Higgins, Vicente Cifuentes, Jimmy Palmiotti, Eduardo Pansica, Pat Olliffe, Juan Castro, Rob Lean, Christy Marx, Robert Venditti, Julio Ferreira, Marguerite Bennett, Jason Fabok, Scott Snyder, Art Thibert, Karl Story, Brian Buccellato, Jonathan Glapion, Fernando Pasarín, Scott McDaniel, Travis Moore, Marc Andreyko, Jorge Lucas, John Layman, Greg Capullo, Romano Molenaar, Justin Gray, Will Conrad, Ivan Fernandez, Keith Champagne, Denys Cowan, Francis Manapul, Allan Jefferson, James Tynion IV, Cliff Richards, Jeff Lemire, Jim Fern, Jeremy Haun, Aaron Kuder, Andrea Sorrentino, Daniel Sampere, Aaron Lopresti, Trevor McCarthy
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.