Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

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Summary: What unreadable book.
Review: Second of DC's really bad story ideas that they did in the 90's with an insane Hal Jordan who tries to destroy reality with the energy left over from "Crises on Infinie Earths" and then rebuild the universe the way he wants it. All the other DC heroes try to stop him and the DCU gets turned inside out in the process. This was a...marketing attempt by DC to have readers buy all their books which were effected by this story and it largely blew up in their faces.

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Summary: Too over-written
Review: This was writen by the same riter who killed Superman and here Jurgens destroys and then rebuilts the DCU almost from the ground up. Bascally the same Story was already written with Crises on Infinite earths, however Marv Wolfman did it much more effectively. Jurgens just could not do anything more with this.

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Summary: Hours Of Discontent
Review: Trying to follow in the grand footseps of a DC Comics mega series from the mid 80's, called Crisis On Infinate Earths, Zero Hour is a yarn that could have been so much better.

Written by Dan Jurgens, who helped kill Superman, then brought him back anew, Zero Hour offers readers the promise of a grand epic involving every character in the universe. Instead, what we get, is a convoluted, wordy mess. The heroes come together for this 5 part tale, in order to rescue a Green Lantern Legend, Hal Jordan. He has gone insane and wants to destroy the whole universe. While a hero falling victim to dark forces is nothing new, I was hoping that getting from point A to point B, would be a bit more fun. I know the story has had great consequences for the DC line and all that--but the basic premise and ensuing story, left me less than thrilled. Sure, its shorter than Crisis, but at least that multi-parter was original for its time. Where was the fun? The excitement? Both of these crucial elements are lacking. The story seemed like a hodge podge of ideas, thrown together, just for the sake of having another DC universe spanning saga.

The art by Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Frank Fosco, and Ken Branch, is solid. However, I think that the trade paperback edition should have been printed, using higher quality stock paper. The art should leap off the page...it doesn't.

The late 2003 reprint of this story seems a bit unwarranted if you ask me. This 1994 edition has an afterword by KC Carlson, coordinating edtor of the series, and a cover gallery of the single issues in the series

Rating:
Summary: Skip this book
Review: Zero Hour came as quite a disappointment to me. I am a sucker for a company wide team up story, and a big fan of Green Lantern, but this story just didn't resonate with me. At the end there are a few good pages involving Green Arrow and his conflicted emotional reaction to the situation. But as a whole it is just lackluster storytelling.

If you want to see all your favorite DC heroes band together, do your self a favor and read Final Night, one of the Crisis on Multiple Earth books, or better yet just re-read Crisis on Infinite Earths.


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Summary: Interesting
Review: Zero Hour changed DC Comics forever back when it was first released. It did a good job of clearing up a lot of continuity errors that were left after Crisis, but also added a lot of unneceserry items such as Catwoman's new origin. The use of Hal Jordan as a villain was a good tool, but at the same time wasted decades of great continuity used for this special character in order to attract more readers. Scenes that were memorable were Ollie Queen killing his best friends and The heroes themselves creating the big bang.It would have recieved 5 stars if these events were spread farther throughout the story instead of at the last ten pages.

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Summary: Zero Hour- A real story
Review: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time is probably one of the best DCU storylines ever created. Saving Hal Jordan for something this big wasn't a sign of poor sales, but of good taste. He deserved to be a big player, but only so many stories can be done about a character with no fear. Anyway, if you hear someone bad-mouthing this story, they're WRONG! The only reason that people think it was a rip-off on "Crisis" was because of the fact that both villains of these storylines were smart enough to get a head start on destroying all the worlds without heroes! Besides, if you wanted to destroy all reality, what better force to use then the end of time itself? This is a great read, and no one that has really read it and looked into it can say anything otherwise.