DC Comics: The New 52 Zero Omnibus

The New 52 Event Omnibuses

by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Jim Lee

In September, DC Entertainment reveals the origins, secrets and shocking fates of top Super Heroes in 56 special #0 issues starring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern and more!

Now, these issues are collected in a massive hardcover just in time for the holiday season, with stories written and illustrated by top talent including Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Jim Lee, Brian Azzarello, Scott Snyder and many more!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book, Superheroes, Science Fiction

1328 pages, Hardcover

First published December 18, 2012

About the author

Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.

His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.

Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.

Reviews

[Koen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over-load.. o-ver-lo-ad... This was nearly too much too handle.. So I took my time to read it, and it was actually worth it..
Nearly all origins stories were very fascinating, well-brought, some known of course, but very good read nonetheless...
I only disliked a handful of them, which is why I deducted 1 star out of the maximum.

Sometimes I did feel like they took things a step too far in this reboot, but hell... isn't life worth some surprises from time to time.. As long as they don't fuck things up too much of course..
Well, they didn't - they changed just about enough for me to keep me reading on and discovering the new 52. And I'm looking forward to reading more of it.. So, no more wasting time reviewing and let's cut this short: origins stories with many different art styles all packed into 1 big album -> just dive in and enjoy! ;)

[John Yelverton · Rating 3 out of 5]

A retelling of the origin stories of your favorite heroes to fit inside the New 52 Universe. The stories range from pretty cool to pretty awful, which makes the book just average.

[Ben Truong · Rating 4 out of 5]

To celebrate the first anniversary of the New 52 reboot, DC Comics decided to go back to the beginning and to tell the origin stories of their current and upcoming series in the third wave (2012 September), in an event called Zero Month. DC Comics: The New 52 Zero Omnibus collects each and every fifty-six special issues in one massive tome.

With fifty-six issues, scores of writers, graphic artists and colorist it is extremely difficult to rate this massive anthology. For the most part, I'm pretty much liked about eighty per cent of this massive anthology. The art throughout is beautifully rendered and rather even throughout the enormous collection. However, the writing, for the most part was rather well, but in certain cases was much to be desired. The reason I like this omnibus is that each story is basically a one-shot and complete stories, which gives both closure and tease of what may come.

All in all, I think DC Comics: The New 52 Zero Omnibus is a wonderful collection of origin stories – it is a good reference book to any newbies that wants to know the origin stories from the popular characters like Clark Kent from Superman, to the new like Calvin Rose from Talon, and the obscure like Andrew Bennett from I...Vampire.

[Kole · Rating 3 out of 5]

No idea how to rate this. I was initially going to individually rate each title with a scale of 1-5 but that would make a boring, long read. Instead, I'll just say that this is a mixed bag of a collection but most titles were worth a read. I'll also include a short list of best (everything rated 4-5) and worst (Things rated a 2 or below) of this collection:

BEST:
Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Action Comics, Superman, Supergirl, Batman, Detective Comics, Batman Incorporated, Batwoman, Batman & Robin, Batgirl, Swamp Thing, I, Vampire, Demon Knights, The Phantom Stranger

WORST:
The Savage Hawkman, Earth 2, DC Universe Presents, Catwoman, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Red Lanterns, Dial H, Stormwatch, Deathstroke, Grifter, Voodoo, Suicide Squad, G.I. Combat, Legion of Superheroes

Overall, a good set of comics with most being closer to the average side. Recommended for strong D.C. Fans. 3/5

[Guido]

Recopila todos los #0 del DCnU.

[Alrejoom · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Justice League here is amazing.

[Sean Kennedy · Rating 3 out of 5]

As is the nature of all anthologies or omnibuses, some stories are brilliant, some good, some mediocre and a few absolutely awful. Unfortunately a lot of the awful ones appear towards the end of the omnibus so it starts to drag and feel like a chore to get through. The new 52 universe has some titles which simply can't be sustained by their characters. Some don't deserve their own title because they're just not interesting enough. And five Batman comics? That's stretching it too bloody far.

However, this is a good starting point for a new reader to find the characters that resonate with them and the stories they want to continue reading. It almost serves as a handy checklist for those you want to collect. That's worth delving into this smorgasbord alone, but watch out for the pickled eggs. Nobody wants those.

[Norman Cook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of the stories are pretty good, a few quite good, and a few quite mediocre to outright bad. However, I can't say that I will remember most of the stories for very long. Still, it was nice to check out what DC is up to with their line and to see some untold origin stories of the New 52. The New 52 has come under a lot of criticism, but this anthology shows that the majority of DC's titles are worth reading if you give them a chance. I also give DC a lot of credit for trying non-superhero titles, even if most of them don't sell well, because many of them are quite good.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Monumental. Lots of excellent work here, but the Image universe stuff sticks out like sore thumb because it's terrible. 4/5 excellent `1/5 stinks.