Friday, August 9, 2013
This Day in History: History Repeats Itself
On this day in 1994, Zero Hour concluded with issue #0. (The mini-series counted backwards from #4 to #0.)
Booster Gold had been erased from time through the events of earlier issues, and this issue doesn't actually show Booster return. However, he's around for Extreme Justice #0 a few months later, so I think we can safely assume he got back just fine. Here's hoping he can repeat that feat by 2014!
Over the years Zero Hours has been much criticized as a mediocre event used to justify rewriting the convoluted history of the DC Universe. In that way it was similar to Flashpoint.
Where Zero Hour is drastically superior to Flashpoint is in the fold-out timeline on the back cover that shows explicitly what history had been changed by the event. Two years into the New 52, we still don't have any such guide for whatever nebulous changes Flashpoint made.
It isn't surprising that history repeats itself. It's just interesting to see the new wrinkles as it does so.
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