So I really feel like I'm missing something here. DC put out this month of prequel zero issues a few issues into their new 52 reboot as a sort of intro / origin for each title... Chances are if I had read issues leading up to the Zero issue, maybe I'd know what's going on. Wouldn't that go against the spirit of what these zero issues are supposed to be? And for the guy that's slow to the starting line & reading in chronological order, Zero is before issue one. If that's the case, why am I presented with this recap, and at the end get a "Continued in issue 5" ?!?!?!
All that said, this story is pretty well written, but without any further context, I'm being spoon fed a story about a character that's a hero on an alternate world believing he has to blow it up to solve the world's issues. (Too bad I just saw the same plot in Avengers: Age of Ultron.) I saw spoon fed because I have a hard time believing this guy totally pulled one over on Batman. Either way, his synthetic Opal Kryptonite made Supes bitch slap Wonder Woman which was epic, so I'll give this hero-turned-villian the benefit of the doubt.
So all-in-all, while I am definitely interested in checking out Earth2, I'm a little confused by this book. I get there's only one issue to lay down a little backstory, but having a little blurb about their only being 8 supers and that this Mr 8 saw the future of their world, but also other realities, in a small little panel has me wondering wtf is going on. Furthermore, the back page paragraph of this zero issue mentions the big 3 are dead on Earth2, so again, wtf was up with them living at the end of this story with Mr. 8 explaining that they are needed for saving his world?!?!
I'm cool with all these things if they're flushed out and explored in the Earth2 series. As I read more, I'm hoping this is the case, and I'll just take this Zero issue as a foreshadowed intro.
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