Convergence #0 - "The God Machine" Review

Pretty, Informative, Maybe not worth the price... 

Looking at this one one the shelf, I was already wary of the $5.00 price, but I want to really dig in to this event. So I gritted my teeth and shelled out the cash. Spoiler: It isn't worth it. 

Convergence #0
April 1, 2015 by DC Comics
40 page Comic • $4.99 

Ok, the book is actually a decent introduction to the event. It clearly lays out the who, what, and where leaving us wanting to find out the how and why. It also features a couple of really cool splash panels of Mega-Zord Brainiac. (Yes, that is what I'm calling him. Although he really actually reminds me of Unicron from the Transformers animated movie. Then again, all giant looming figures in space kinda do...) 

Now I don't read Superman, so I may not have recognized all of the Brainiac versions or properly identified the different timelines on the Death of Superman splash page, but it does well to highlight the fact that EVERYTHING in the myriad DC multiverses is connected within this event. Which brings us to the saving grace of this $5.00 intro: At the end of the book, we are presented with a "Who's Who" index of all the universes that will be highlighted in the series. This is super helpful for folks like me who haven't been into comics for too long and may have missed some of these titles, arcs, and events. 

So all in all, my gripe still stands that $5.00 is too much for what little is presented. What is presented is pretty and informative, but on the scales of quantity and quality, the quantity scale is a little too light for my liking.

Becoming A Proper Nerd...

Ever since I started reading comics a few years ago, I've been behind the times. I started out with the essential Batman trades (Year One, Long Halloween, Man Who Laughs, etc.) and The Walking Dead Compendium. Eventually I decided to check out what ole Bats was up to currently on Comixology's digital collection. Well this was in 2012, a year after the New52 had begun. I had some catching up to do, but Snyder and Capullo with the Court of Owls made for some feverish rushing though the first year of the new Bats. I loved it so much I signed up for a mail order subscription to the main Batman title. Eventually, I got interested in Justice League and from there I branched out throughout the New52. Well, now I've been branching out even farther and have been really enjoying X-O Manowar. All in all, I'm into comics now. So today, with DC's launch of their universal (sorry, MULTIVERSAL) event and soft-reboot, I decided to start buying more than just trades at the store. However, G2K didn't have the Manowar I wanted... So I find myself at Atomik Comiks. They didn't have the Manowar I wanted either, but they ordered it for me on the spot, set me up with subscriptions (the real kind, go into the store, pull-list style), suggested some trades for previous stuff, and generally talked with me about comic stuff. (Apparently, I was right to think Arrow was extremely lack-luster, but The Flash is a show I need to be putting my time into.) So anyway, officially my first true, single comic purchase was Convergence #0, and now I can't wait till next Wednesday. 

tl;dr
Today I finally became a proper comic nerd, and I couldn't have chosen a better shop to do it at. #PullListActivate