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DC Universe #0. All I can say is… wow.

It makes next to no sense. Is it possible to feel like I wasted $0.50? Because I think that I did.

All I got was a collection of six teasers for upcoming story events. I feel like I paid $0.50 to have DC Comics make me watch a disjointed and scattered commercial, all narrated by the Flash.

And what was the deal with the (SPOILERS!!!!) last page? A strip club with a soda can on the ground and some graffiti nearby? Is Grant Morrison trying to say that strip clubs are evil? Well guess what -- they're not. And neither is graffiti. Some graffiti is really sweet.

But you know what kind of sucks? Lightning. That's right. It's loud (well the thunder is loud, but the two of them go hand-in-hand), it's destructive, and it's annoying when you're trying to sleep (trust me, it kept me up all night recently).

I'd like to introduce a new feature, similar to something you see here all the time but it's a bit different: Reads You Don't Need. And can you guess what the first issue is to ever receive this honor? You guessed it! DC Universe #0.

P.S. Okay, let me be fair. The issue was ambitious. But it should have had a consistent narrative as the focus instead of a series of snapshot sales pitches.

P.P.S. Astute readers will notice that we already had a ComicShocker this week. That installment, however, was actually catching up on the previous week. This ComicShocker is for this week. Right now. The one with DC Universe #POOP-- Oops! I mean #0.