The heroic Zero roams the wasteland, protecting the defenceless from an oppressive regime.

I know very little about the Mega Man Zero spin off series of video games, but it didn’t matter one bit when it came to this issue, which hit the ground running and provided enough exposition to get even the uninitiated, such as myself, on board with the world’s status quo.

Hanzo Steinbach, who also illustrated the variant cover shown above, does such an incredible job with the art that this issue feels like reading an anime; little visual tricks such as focal points and motion blur really add to this feeling too.

The colours really pop, and the action sequences (of which there are more than a few) are brilliantly dynamic, only lacking a bit of storytelling clarity in one or two panels overall.

Ian Flynn’s script keeps things moving at a great pace, though it does feel as if the story ends quite abruptly.

This is the third of the Mega Man Timelines one shots, and so far each one has been a great read. With two to go, can we get a perfect run from Mega Man Timelines? Time will tell!

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