Totally agreed. I really enjoyed American Gothic, which kind of served as a parallel crisis for a lot of the mystical types. That, the GL Corps stories, and Watchmen really cemented Alan Moore's rep as one of my favorite authors. Has AG ever made it to trade? I'd love to read it again, but my run of 80s Swamp Thing has long ago gone the way of the dodo.

Hmm, now to read Zero Hour. Wish I had a copy of that, since 52 covers some of it. Tho, I noticed that they didn't mention "hyper-time". Hmm...

Can you get that as a trade? Or did it cross over a bazillion titles?

I am not sure it was ever out as a trade, but, it's not as big as COIE was, so it wouldn't be impossible, I'd think. Only time I read it was when it was out issue per issue.

There were only four (or five issues?) of Zero Hour, the last issue is of course #0 It counted doen from four (or three). The story itself was self contained except for the month of the last issue every DC title had a "zero" issue The zero issues were just a retelling of the super hero's or team origin to coincide witht he revamp of the time line. Some of the major titles did have 2-3 part stories involving Zero Hour, but were not crucial to the completetion of the Zero Hour story.

Zero Hour definitely has a trade, I saw it today at my LCS.

"American Gothic" is also in trade, two Volumes. The first one is "Swamp Thing: The Curse" and the second is "Swamp Thing: A Murder of Crows".

"Murder of Crows" is essential reading for DCU mystic lovers as it had such a richness of characters and concepts. It really puts the "Day of Vengeance/Shadowpact" stuff to shame.

- The Spectre weeping and begging God for forgiveness.
- Dr. Fate going bad-arse on the Demons Three.
- What was to become one of the defining moment of Zatanna's life.
- Phantom Stranger bringing forth a host of Angels
- Etrigan riding forth with a host of Demons wearing "living" armour
- Mento losing it.


All great stuff.

Yup, there is a Zero Hour trade. It's sitting on my shelf right now. However it's just the issues of the actual Zero Hour title and none of the crossovers into the ongoing titles so there are a number of 'wha-huh?!' moments when certain characters either show up or mention stuff that happened in the crossovers.

Can't be worse than DC One Million where the majority of the plot happened in all of the different crossovers that month. I tried re-reading the series by itself last month and still have no idea how the Titans were saved from the "Rocket Red" trap, how the techno-virus was stopped or if the JLA won or lost all of their challenges.

that's cause they wanted you to buy the cross-over titles too.

If you're looking for DC trades, I recommend "The Return of Barry Allen" Flash TPB, by Mark Waid. It is superb!

I keep eyeing that everytime I go into my LCS. However, I have two trades, that I absolutley must get before it-

Rise of Apocalypse & Spider-Man-Kraven's Last Hunt (Best. Spidery story. EVER!)

So I guess it'll be the next one after I get those two.

Crisis is the best comic of all times ever. is the biger even in the comics story. Too bad Marvel never have something really that big. The more near things are Secret Wars or Infinty Gantled etc. but nothing like ALL the characteres of 50 years in a maxiseries. and yes, I'm a Marvel fan too.

Oh, come on, we all know you want the TPB of Spidey Clone saga.

Now, if you could find tpb of teh old Ironwood series, that'd make for an interesting read.

You just hope they write "Crisis of Infinate Carlos", don't you ?

Sounds good . . . I've been wanting some good Spidey stories. I'll check it out.