With Secret City, we go back to the Gotham that has been taken over by crime, back when Bruce Wayne was still legally dead and when Batman faced an uphill battle to reclaim the city. I mean, how often do I have to see Uncle Ben get shot in a Spider-man story? Surprisingly, though, I absolutely loved this installment and this volume may be my favorite of the four I’ve read so far. I’m not big on revisiting origin stories. We also get to see him take on the Red Hood gang, and the potential origin story of Batman’s greatest foe. We don’t have to sit through another retelling of that time Bruce Wayne’s parents got killed, but we do get to see Bruce Wayne when he first returned to Gotham and tried to reclaim the city. Zero Year takes a step back six years, and is essentially The New 52 version of Batman: Year One. When we last left Batman, it was Death of the Family, the huge event that sprawled through the Batman family of comics. I haven’t been reading many comics these days I’ve actually been reading books without pictures recently, but I just took my honeymoon, so I was able to blow through the fourth installment of the Batman New 52 arc during the flight back home.
The Comic Spot is back in some familiar territory. Collects BATMAN issues #21-#24.Synopsis: Taking place six years prior to the events of Death of the Family, Bruce Wayne is legally dead, but operating as a vigilante in the Narrows while Gotham City is under control of the Red Hood gang. Patrolling Gotham's streets, in a series of disguises, he began a career as faceless vigilante. But this was exactly the cover of darkness Bruce needed. In this first volume of the critically acclaimed ZERO YEAR storyline, the #1 New York Times bestselling creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo present an astonishing new vision of the Dark Knight's origin-and his first encounters with the Riddler, the Red Hood, and others! Before the era of superheroes began-before the Batman spread his wings to protect the innocent and punish evil-Gotham City's prodigal son, Bruce Wayne, had been missing for years.
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