Cinemusings - Rot Your Brain

DC UNIVERSE #0
Momar Van Der Camp

Published by DC Comics
Written by a bunch of people
Art by a bunch of people

Stuff happens. We learn backstories on where all of the major characters are going to be (kinda, we get Batman, Wonder Woman, the Secret Society of Super-villains, Green Lantern, who cares else, and Superman in the 31st Century) and someone comes back, kinda. All for 50 cents.

Commentary:
Fifty cents and I still feel like I was robbed. What a joke. This is supposed to be the primer for the whole big universe shattering event in the DC universe and all it is is a half-piped preview book featuring a look at the oncoming storylines of major books. It's a 50 cent book filled with ads. Look! Batman might die. Hold your breath on how long that lasts if he does. Look, Blackest Night! The Marvel Zombies invade the DC universe and fight Green, Red, Blue, Fuscia Lanterns. Wonder Woman fights the 300 Spartans. Superman vs Superman-Prime in the WORLD OF TOMORROW!

And why do any of us care? It was a rip-off, pure and simple. You know why people are going to buy this?

Two reasons: The first should be the art of Doug Mahnke on the Secret Society of Supervillains 3 page ad. Man does he draw well. Why can't he have a major book again (like say Batman which is why I picked it up during the Red Hood story-arc). Why isn't he drawing the major events of DC instead of cover-boy JG Jones?

Reason two is one simple stupid lightning bolt and Flash emblem and because the New York Daily News and EW told us in interviews with Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison that Barry Allen was coming back. And we get a lightning bolt? Ok. Stupid.

50 cents for Barry Allen maybe narrating the issue and flashing a bolt of lightning over a strip-club at the end. Does the strip-club have significance? Are we to believe that Barry Allen came back to grease up stripper poles? Is that Morrison's big reveal at the end of the Final Crisis?

Who cares! Count me out. And I want my fifty cents back. The Crisis to end all Crises already happened. Is this Zero Hour 2?

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