With Batman’s nine-issue Zero Year storyline finally coming to a conclusion, we decided to look back on the entire arc as a whole. What worked? What didn’t? And what were our favorite moments?

Check out our analysis of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Zero Year.

The very concept of Zero Year was something that many fans feared when word first got out. Longtime readers are still getting used to the New 52’s many changes, including the fact that many of their favorite stories are no longer in continuity. When Batman #1 hit the stands, much of the character’s previous history was, for all readers knew, still intact. However, as other Bat-books began to reveal changes to character histories, fans began to worry about the beloved stories that had cemented Batman’s history for so many years. Of course, by the time the first issue of Zero Year debuted, Snyder had developed a great deal of street cred from his audience. Snyder had already managed to write two epic Batman arcs in his series thus far, so all he needed to do was hit it out of the park once more. No pressure, right?

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