Batman and Catwoman get sucked into the world of Fortnite and suddenly have their memories wiped and their ability to talk removed. As they fight for survival and try to remember who they are, they have to figure out a way back home.
The title of the book says it all: there’s zero point to having a Batman and Fortnite crossover because there’s nothing to it. Just a lot of pointless fighting until the six issues are up and the status quo is reinstated. Eh, I guess pure commercialism is the point. Always a good indicator of artistic merit…
Christos Gage may as well be the name of a comics script-writing programme - his words are plopped there on the page to make it look like a comic but they don’t need to be there; they’re that unimpressive. If this was a wordless comic, you’d still get as much of an idea of what was happening as if you read every word of this one.
The only good thing about this book is the fantastic art of Reilly Brown and Christian Duce. I just find their work so perfect, particularly for Batman, that if they were the only two Batman artists to ever work on the character forever, I’d be happy with that. You also get Mikel Janin and Dan Mora on covers - bellissima!
I’ve played Fortnite very little - it’s not my marmalade - but I still recognised the setting, characters and other game features. Though even if you have played Fortnite a lot and count yourself as a fan, I’m not sure if you’d like this comic - unless simply seeing video game stuff you like replicated in a book is all you’re after? Because that’s all you get here!
Speaking of fan service, there’s also a pointless cameo by a semi-famous character from an IDW comic that didn’t really add anything except underline how characters from multiple franchises crop up in this game.
There might’ve been something interesting to have been done with the Memento-type storyline but Gage-bot wasn’t up to it so alls you get is tedious fighting instead. Really loved the art on this one but the story is so insubstantial that it, like the characters’ collective amnesia, makes Batman/Fortnite: Zero Point an all too forgettable book.
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