Radio-Play Comics - Zero Hour
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- Zero Hour was the big crossover event DC published in 1994 in order to clean up some inconsistencies in their timeline left over from the cosmic housecleaning done by Crisis in Infinite Earths in 1986, when their confusing multiverse was collapsed into one universe. Time is going crazy as alternate timelines collide all across the dc universe, entropy rifts are eating away at it from the beginning and end of time towards the middle causing people from the distant past and far future to disappear along with their times of origin, and several heroes are brought face to face with their greatest dreams and their worst nightmares, long thought to be impossible, and then suddenly made real. The universe is ending and DC's greatest heroes must try to stop it from being remade in a madman's image.
The Death of Superman and his subsequent return following Reign of the Supermen in 1993 increased the books' sales far more than was ever anticipated, and this is why it caused shockwaves throughout the DC Universe, changing all the major heroes in significant ways in attempts to replicate those sales boosts, including replacing them with new versions, radically changing their powers, and outright killing them. All these changes seemed to build up to one event which changed the entire universe forever, Zero Hour. Given that comics were entering the 90's sales boom and speculative collector's bubble, all indications were that the plan had succeeded.
These are the exact events that led me to become a lifetime DC comics fan, and a reader of comics in general. Death of Superman made me take a look because if Superman could die, then anything could happen, and within a year I had seen some of the most epic stories, amazing events, and compelling characters I had ever seen in any medium. Zero Hour cemented me in the fandom, I had to know what happened next.
Intro/Zero Hour #4 - 0:00
Batman: Zero Hour 1(Follows alternate Batgirl story) - 11:09
Superman: Zero Hour 1(Superman meets alternate Batmen) - 12:53
Superboy: Zero Hour (Modern Superboy meets Classic Superboy) - 14:03
Superman: Zero Hour 2 (Superman meets his parents from alternate timeline) - 16:00
Zero Hour #3 (Death of the JSA) - 18:40
Batman: Zero Hour 2 (Batman's parents lived and young Bruce died) - 27:16
Zero Hour #2 (Extant kills Waverider) - 30:42
Guy Gardner Warrior: Zero Hour (Extant shows Guy the death of Coast City) - 36:51
Zero Hour #1 (Reality is destroyed and the villain is revealed) - 37:29
Superman: Zero Hour 3 (Lois Lane covers the end of the world) - 43:03
Zero Hour #0 (The battle for the new reality begins) - 44:36
Green Lantern #0 (The villain and the new Green Lantern finish the story on the planet Oa) - 1:04:39
Zero Hour and all characters copyright of DC Comics.
Script written and performed by Nick Moore. - Zábava
You did a great job! Glad I discovered your channel.
I still have this whole series in mint condition. And Superman wedding. The only ones I really went out to find when they came out. not sure why.
I still remember finding my first comic shop and getting the end of this series along with the Kingdom Come books I had missed. Until then I was just buying comics at drugstores, grocery stores, and occasionally a bookstore, and I didn't know comic shops existed.
I’ve been doing a comic catchup for the last year from 1987 onward
Trying to get all caught up eventually, lol. But I’ve recently had to cancel my dc infinite app along with other stuff due to financial reasons and I’ve only been reading summaries of everything from kNightfall to zero hour so far
Which seemed like such a good story that I wanted to read it but couldn’t. So anyways, thank you for this ! It’s incredibly appreciated
Thanks for watching, and don't let it end with just you. I do this to share the art I loved with more people, and you can do the same by telling others about these comics, too. It's a hobby that's best when shared, and it was hard enough to pick out the best stories thirty years ago when I was collecting. Now there's exponentially more comics, and so the task of finding the best becomes even more difficult as time goes on.
But we also can appreciate the eras of comics history as they are preserved, it's just the nature of the artform to change. I've read comics I've enjoyed all the way back to the 1930's, so never stop looking for more to love. That's my advice. I always believed in the power of these stories, it's my job just not to mess up the presentation of them. And on that score I do think I've gotten much better since I made this one, years back, so I hope you'll check out my recent work as well. I'll always come back to DC of the 80's and 90's, that's my true comics home.
Green Lantern #0 (starts at 1:04:39) is what people coming here from Green Lantern: New Flame are going to want to see, and I won't blame anyone who wants to skip Zero Hour and just watch that, as ZH isn't my best video, it's very heavy on narration and perhaps goes too fast, but I am quite proud of the performances in GL #0. The fake out of Kyle giving Hal the ring back was for the fans who, even then, were bemoaning Kyle and wishing Hal would become Green Lantern again. Of course Hal would, but it wouldn't be until after the turn of the millennium. So Kyle's line "It was probably bound to happen sooner or later anyway" ends up being prophetic, seen from the here and now.
Kyle's run was fantastic, and by the end, most naysayers had been turned into fans. Also, Hal Jordan would team up with Kyle a few times during the years he was missing, due to time travel adventures. Emerald Knights is fun in particular, the celebration around Green Lantern 100, as it teams Kyle up with a Hal who's younger and more inexperienced at the job than Kyle is at the time, and he gets help train the rookie Hal. All memories of the adventure are erased once he's returned to his proper time, as is common with stories of that type. Hal's real self was either dead or The Spectre by that point.
Hal's time as The Spectre (by J.M. DeMatteis) is also very interesting, artistic, and very different from any of his GL books. One of these days I have to make a Hal Jordan biography video charting his journey from his first time as Green Lantern through the years he was Parallax, dead after sacrificing himself in The Final Night (that's on the agenda too), Spectre, and all the way to Rebirth and being GL again. Someday.
Wow 😳
I remember this !
I still have this comic
Me too, at least every issue I included plus several more tie ins. It's all in basement storage though, with the show digital is just so much easier. I actually have a ZH #0 signed by Mart Nodell, creator of Alan Scott, who I got to meet and bought a print and a few rings from. Oh and he drew a lantern in green ink on the blank cover. Probably my best single comic.
@@fusionspace175 that cool
9:40 translation: the spectre realizes it is just a jobber character for villains beat on so is looking for any excuse to sit this one out.