2008 Comic Book News Archives

DC Universe #0

April 12, 2008: DC Comics Reveals Cover for “DC Universe #0”

Newsarama.com has received the cover artwork for "DC Universe #0" from DC Comics. You'll recall that Dan Didio told Newsarama...

    "Originally, we were going to do Countdown to Final Crisis #0 - that's what Countdown has been counting down to: 51 to 0 ­ 52 issues in total, a year's worth of work. Ultimately though, what happened was that when we were looking at how #0 was being created, we realized that in collecting Countdown to Final Crisis, it would be hard to collect the #0 issue, because it would leave us on a cliffhanger at the end of the book. We felt that probably wasn't the best way to end a book, so we decided to end all the Countdown stories with #1, and therefore make the #0 issue separate. That's when it became Final Crisis #0.

    Then, Grant was involved in the writing of Final Crisis #0 of course, and Grant wanted Geoff to co-write it with him. But as we were building the book, we realized that the story wasn't contained to the stories that were flowing into Final Crisis, involving New Gods and Monitors, but really touched upon so many major events going on throughout the DCU including: more hints to the Black Lanterns story, what's coming up in the Batman storylines, Superman's upcoming stories and Wonder Woman as well. Because it started to expand outside of Final Crisis, we repositioned the book one more time, and now it's called DC Universe #0.

To read more of what Didio had to say, and to see a larger version of the cover visit Newsarama.com.

Thanks to Nate Ruff (Nate1986) for the lead on this info.



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