5 Reasons You Should Be Reading Batman: Zero Year

by David Whittaker

1. The Narratives To ComeMadbatz ... Because I think things are about to get quite messy. As it stands Gotham is powerless, on more than one level. The police, as if not busy enough maintaining civil order, now have some kind of masked man indulging some kind of delusional sense of social justice. That however isn't enough; throw in someone called Doctor Death who seems to be killing people in a very unique manner, oh and a doorway out in the middle of the desert somewhere. Furthermore, a certain Doctor Pamela Isely, a future avatar of the Green, showed up and a flash forward shows Gotham over run by plants. Coincidence? I think not. As the Batman myth promulgates and permutates like a fractal of story telling Bruce's journey to dominance and infallibility becomes progressively harder. In the old continuity Bruce had to wait until Year Two and The Long Halloween before he encountered many of his family of villains in quick succession. Zero Year is seemingly different creating the idea that some of them, in some form or another were there before he even began.

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