Review: BATMAN/FORTNITE: ZERO POINT #3

Are You Ready To Drop? Your Expectations.

Are you ready to drop is a common term in the online game Fortnite. It signifies when players are ready to choose a location drop from an aircraft and start the game; however, the only thing dropping is any expectations I had of this book being any good. Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point Issue 3 is the pointless continuation of two properties that make no thematic sense for a crossover outside of character skins in the game. Batman is a highly trained non-lethal crime-fighter that’s widely known not to use guns, and Fortnite is a third-person online shooter where plays drop into an arena and kill everybody to the last man standing.

Separately these are both fine things. On a level of just for fun, it’s cool seeing characters like Batman and Thanos appear in the video game as costumes. In a nonsensical, non-canon arcade-style way, these things work, but here in Zero Point, where DC try to make sense of the senseless, the writers and artists are just ice-skating uphill.

Corporate Crossover

This entire comic is just a soulless cash-grab with some of the worst dialogue I’ve ever seen in a comic book. Batman has lost his memories, and we follow his journey as he fights people repeatedly in 22-minute intervals before his progress, memories, and gear are reset. In trying to recreate the way, the game works, the story is constricted. It becomes this pointless endeavour that’s just 22 pages of Batman punching poorly dressed millennials. The only dialogue in this book is in the form of emails from the organization staging these deathmatches. I don’t have to tell you it’s really easy to not care about this story when Batman has forgotten who he is, never speaks, and the only words we see are from faceless mystery men that never show up in the book.

It’s got two Ninja’s Fighting!

To this book’s credit, it does have some incredible art and pretty cool scenes of Batman fighting Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe. The two do battle over and over to the point where other competitors often stop just to watch these two duke it out. Despite having their memories constantly reset, the two start to communicate, but it comes in far too late to make any real impact. This comic is no more than a kid smashing his action figures together, which is something I could enjoy, but with the weak story, dreary dialogue and just uninteresting premise, I cannot recommend this book.

Read Something Else.

As a massive fan of Batman, I don’t want to end this review on a downer, so here’s a list of great Batman content that’s actually are worth your time.

Batman: Arkham City (Video Game)

Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (Animated Film)

Batman: The Killing Joke (Comic)

Batman: Knightfall (Comic)

Batman: Under The Red Hood (Animated Film)

Batman Beyond 2.0: Rewired (Comic)

SCORE: 1/5 Stars

Writer: Christos Gage

Art: Reilly Brown

Publisher: DC Comics