Zero Year is almost upon us. If you haven’t noticed by now, writer Scott Snyder and his partner in crime Greg Capullo have been taking the comic book world by storm lately, and by lately I mean the last two years. 2011 and 2012 saw the success of Snyder’s first big epic, The Court of Owls, which spanned eleven issues lasting  for nearly a year, and introduced brand new villains into The Dark Knight’s already massive rogues gallery. He wasn’t done however, announcing that he planned to bring back Batman’s most famous rogue, The Joker, in another huge story called Death of the Family. My point is that Scott Snyder doesn’t think small when it comes to writing comic book stories, he thinks big! Really big! He believes that if you are going to tell a story about a character you are passionate about, it should be one that is special and very important to you. He has said on numerous occasions that the stories he writes are the ones he would tell if he had only one chance to write the character. So far his method has worked because he has managed to deliver two incredibly entertaining stories, in The Court of Owls and Death of the Family. Snyder is far from done though, the next big epic, titled Zero Year is set to begin next month. With this one he has dared to go where very few writers have gone before, the retelling of the Caped Crusader’s origin. There are plenty of reasons for a Batman fan to be excited about this, and I’d like to share some of mine with you. If you aren’t planning on reading it, hopefully I can persuade you otherwise. Read More