Both Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder started their headlining New 52 runs with epic crossover events right off the bat and both were given the opportunity of van guarding the first set of annuals with these series, but the pair diverge dramatically in the way that they spend these extra pages. Snyder chose to spend his annual introducing supplementary material for the series, giving a proper introduction to a villain who may otherwise have played as shallow within the series; his annual then is a special feature, a deleted scene. Lemire on the other hand uses his to tell a twisted sort of re-cap, re-telling ‘The Story So Far…’ but having it hidden covertly in the context of a different time and place( police men become Mounties, etc.) explaining to us again the intricacies of his inventive mythos.

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