Batman: The Dark Knight #9

[superfangirl1]

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[icon_uk]

They sort of tried that in Zero Hour, which gave us a month of infodump in the #0 issues, and in doing so, perhaps set TOO much in stone too quickly. Leaving things vague allows more long term story possibilities.

[mrstatham]

Yes, but now leaving things vague has just created a big set of problems, because fans KNOW something existed before the current set of stories, and the creators are having to scrabble to explain exactly what has gone on when they're really interested in dealing with their new stories.

I think that, well, they'd almost have been best off starting every book from the first months of a hero's career, almost. If we'd had, say, Batman stumbling upon the Court of Owls in his first months as a detective in Gotham, I'd feel like the story was much more impressive, and the Court could almost take the place of say, the Falcone crime family. That way, it's less ridiculous that this ancient group of criminals goes undiscovered in a Gotham that Batman should know every inch of, by now.

[mrstatham]

Also, based on what we've heard about the possibility of Zero issues coming in September, DC might not have learnt their lesson there.