Continuing on the rather peculiar journey through DC's event stories with Zero Hour. Dan Jurgens is a writer whose popularity / acclaim I've never fully grasped and this one is no exception. It's definitely not in the same league as Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Storywise it sort of hangs together if you don't pay too much attention to what is going on and just allow yourself to be dragged along. There are references to what are probably relatively current events in the DC Universe at the time but you're dropped right into the story so if you don't have much familiarity with contemporary plot developments it can be a bit baffling.
Artwise it is about average for DC of that era. Certainly nowhere near the nadir of John Bogdanove on Superman of that time but when you compare it to more recent stuff or some of Marvel's material of the time it is nothing special
Overall a fairly unremarkable piece of work. If it something that passed you by then you've definitely not missed anything. As an example of how to do a 'reset event' that doesn't really matter, it is probably a pretty good example, a bit like a lot of the crossover events that the big two have indulged in down through the years.
TLDR: decidedly sub-par piece of work that is probably a good one to forget.
Storywise it sort of hangs together if you don't pay too much attention to what is going on and just allow yourself to be dragged along. There are references to what are probably relatively current events in the DC Universe at the time but you're dropped right into the story so if you don't have much familiarity with contemporary plot developments it can be a bit baffling.
Artwise it is about average for DC of that era. Certainly nowhere near the nadir of John Bogdanove on Superman of that time but when you compare it to more recent stuff or some of Marvel's material of the time it is nothing special
Overall a fairly unremarkable piece of work. If it something that passed you by then you've definitely not missed anything. As an example of how to do a 'reset event' that doesn't really matter, it is probably a pretty good example, a bit like a lot of the crossover events that the big two have indulged in down through the years.
TLDR: decidedly sub-par piece of work that is probably a good one to forget.