Early days of Batman to be revisited in ‘Zero Year’

The “Batman” creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo will look at the early days of the Dark Knight in “Zero Year,” an upcoming storyline in the pages of “Batman.”

While Batman’s origin will be largely the same, the new storyline will explore the crime-fighter’s early days.

“It’s not ‘let’s redo the origin,’” Snyder told the Associated Press. “It’s time for a new story showing how Batman became who he is in the New 52.”

The 11-issue story will begin in June.

“We tried to preserve as much of Batman’s history as we could and keep what we could of this history intact,” Snyder told AP. “It’s ‘The Zero Year,’ the one that no one has told the story of before. We see how Bruce became the Batman, built the cave, faced off with his first super villain.”

Given the success of the “Batman” title since the Snyder-Capullo team took over with the “New 52″ relaunch, it makes sense to have an origin-type tale by this creative team.  Snyder indicates in the AP story he’s trying to avoid stepping on the toes of “Year One,” the classic Frank Miller-David Mazzucchelli storyline.

- Matt Price