Baron Zemo is a Nazi who was party to the execution of millions of people during World War II. This story tries to explain him through the eyes of an academic who is writing his thesis on Zemo and believes he has been sent back in time. The researcher works with Reed Richards to find him.
We also see the story through the eyes of Zemo himself, who has in fact been sent back in time. Much is made of the fact that Zemo is the 13th in a line of Zemos, and now he finds himself traveling in time from the sixteenth century (where he saves the the first Zemo from death and thus ensures his own lineage) and then up in time through each of the prior 12 Zemos.
(I am NOT tagging these historical Zemos.)
Eventually we get to the time of Hitler and spend some time there, watching Zemo literally wrestle with his own past.
And then Zemo is returned to the present day.
We finally get to see why the student is studying Zemo, and there’s a bit of an overwrought speech at the end.
I suppose this isn’t a bad comic, but redeeming a man who had an active role in supporting Hitler himself is…Not really my cuppa, ya dig? Especially when you consider that if he’s seriously trying to redeem himself from his own past then…He just LITERALLY went back in time and had the chance to kill Hitler. And he didn’t take the shot.
But at least he did punch himself in the face.
Again, this is pretty well-written (much better than most of Fabian Nicieza’s output from this period), so I don’t want to down-rate it just because I don’t like the concept. So, I gave it a C.
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