"In this, Donald from the start said, 'We're going to reveal all these secrets about how the Fortnite island works.' And I was like, 'You've got to be kidding me. "I've worked on a lot of licensed properties and as you know, they're usually not canonical and it's a thing where you still want to tell a good story and have some fun, but it's like - this isn't canon," said Gage.
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Zero Point isn't quite so specific about where exactly it falls in the Batman timeline, but the costumes alone make it obvious this series is steeped in current DC lore. It's similar to 2020's Fortnite x Marvel: Nexus War - Thor #1, which springs out of a very specific scene in writer Donny Cates' monthly Thor comic. This series is set firmly in the era of DC's contemporary Batman comics, and its events have a clear bearing on the world of Fortnite. He's so good at all that detail work, and just the energy and his composition and his storytelling and it's just so emotive and just so phenomenal." How Zero Point Builds on Batman and Fortnite ContinuityMany comic book crossovers tend to fall outside of the traditional continuity of their respective books, but that's anything but the case with Zero Point. we knew that just a lot of the characters and a lot of where you even see Batman evolving and his look, just draws pouches so well. "A lot of his work, I think, is reflective of the spirit of that art style that we really go for in Fortnite, but also. "Riley is just, wow, he's amazing," said Mustard. I thought that art, that work was so impressive." Mustard also had plenty of praise for series artists Reilly Brown and Christian Duce, as they both tackle the challenge of merging the dark and moody world of Batman with Fortnite's colorful (if equally violent) realm. And, I read a bunch of Chris' work, and especially your stuff you did on G.I. And so we had this arc that we'd thought through, and how it could tie into some of the Fortnite things that were going on and the timeframe where the comic takes place. "And at least with the story I've been thinking about for what would be a really cool lens into the character Batman and into Catwoman and their relationship.
"This is really a core Batman story," said Mustard. And as it turns out, Gage was Mustard's first and really only choice to script the series. Over time, their conversations shifted toward building a bigger and more focused narrative, which is basically the genesis of Zero Point. I mean, this is years ago and I was saying, 'Here's our planning and here's how the story of Fortnite works, and here's how Batman could fit into that.'"Īccording to Mustard, the game's early DC crossovers came about mostly through conversations with DC's Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee. And Batman was one of the very first characters I was hoping to be able to bring into that," Mustard said. "As we were really early in the process of starting to build the Fortnite story, there were elements where other realities come into play. Mustard told us that this is exactly why he wanted to bring Batman and other DC heroes into the game as early as possible. It's sort of like living inside Tommy Westphall's snowglobe, if everyone were shooting at each other and building towers. The world of Fortnite is specifically presented as a sort of nexus point between realities, allowing characters from any number of familiar universes to drop in and intermingle. The Secret Origin of Zero PointThe DC and Fortnite universes are sort of natural bedfellows in the sense that both lean into the idea of an interconnected multiverse. Read on to learn more about the plot of Zero Point and why this crossover is deeper than you might think. To get a better sense of how this series will capitalize on these two pop culture juggernauts, we turned to writer Christos Gage and story consultant/Epic's Chief Creative Officer Donald Mustard.
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