When they decided to reboot everything, they folded the WildStorm Universe (along with the handful of DC Universe characters whose books were published under the mature readers Vertigo imprint umbrella) into the DCU proper, forming The New 52iverse in the cosmic climax of the Flashpoint miniseries.įor the most part, the WildStorm imports haven't fared well. You should be reading it, plain and simple.DC Comics seems to have always struggled with what, exactly, they should do with the WildStorm imprint they bought from founder Jim Lee, a move which, in retrospect, seems like a move reluctantly taken not because they necessarily wanted to publish comics featuring any of the WildStorm characters or concepts, but because they wanted founder Jim Lee working for them (That, or they wanted to get their hands on more Alan Moore material they could sell in graphic novel form for pretty much ever).Īfter messing about with the imprint for a long while, including rebooting the WildStorm "universe" a couple of times, when they last restored their multiverse, they gave the WildStorm Universe it's own Earth, one of the 52 parallel worlds that made up the DC Multiverse. I've said it before and I'll say it again - this book is a must-read for all fans of good comics in general and sword-and-sorcery comics in specific. Chang also shows his talents as a visual storyteller, the action flowing smoothly and naturally from panel to panel. Chang proves to be a worthy replacement for Diogenes Neves, using a similarly detail-oriented style with light inking. This issue marks the premiere of Bernard Chang on this title.
The bits with Etrigran attempting to boost his rank in Hell are particularly amusing, if you enjoy rhyming and beheadings as much as I do. I will say that we do get a wonderful look into both character's lives and motivations before they were saddled with one another. I shan't spoil the surprising circumstances revealed within that explain precisely how and why Merlin came to bond his scribe and his demon together. What was unexpected, however, was the unique spin that Paul Cornell put upon this particular story. This was to be expected, given that all of the Zero Month issues are meant to be origin stories of one stripe or another. Demon Knights #0 gives us a look at the origins of both Jason Blood and The Demon Etrigan.
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