A revamp of Zatanna edtiroially spearheaded by Kim Yale (Ostrander's wife and co writer of the seminal Suicide Squad run) which was heavily influenced by Vertigo at the time and written by Lee Mars and drawn by .
The writers wanted to get rid of the 'silly' stuff to make her a more 'serious' heroine.
The story is about Zatanna meeting her mothers ghost and realizing that she has to save San Francisco from a Chtulu like creature trying to break into 'our' world. She finds her father's backward speaking magic to be ineffective and slow so she switches to her mothers magic after discovering she can do magic based eye blasts. She also adopts a spear, has short hair and adopts a more sword and sorcery costume. Well...have a look:
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/zatan...3/4000-122632/
Pros:
-Strong character work and an attempt to give her her own supporting cast.
-The art by Esteben Maroto was a treat.
-Zatanna takes on a JL level threat by herself and solves it.
Cons:
-"Oh woe is me, if only Constantine was here. I am not as cool or competent as him even though I've been around longer as a character and have been a long time JLA member."
-It's yet another story where she lost her confidence and needs it back. It's the second story where she met the ghost of her mother and another in a long running series of stories where she gets advice or warnings from her parents from the beyond the grave. If you are familiar with her canon of stories, it's over done.
-Eye beams, magic necklaces and staffs are no less silly than backwards speaking magic. If anything it made her less unique.
-The costume switch to achieve 'balance', well that's been done too. In the Satellite era she exclusively wore the Perez designed outfit and only wore the fishnets for performances.
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