Zero Year chapters & proper Death of the Family reading order HELP!

[Forever Knight]

1. Anyone know the correct timeline reading order for Death of the Family?, not the time the issues were released but the exact timeline order for a smooth read.

2. Anyone know the chapter titles and what issues are in those chapters for Zero Year?

3. Issue wise, where does Batgirl Annual #1 fit into it's series?

Thanks!

[Batmil]

You just mean the regular reading order for DotF? This is the one I used:

Prelude to the Event - These titles are Optional
000a Detective Comics #1 (2012)
000b Suicide Squad #6
000c Suicide Squad #7
001 Batgirl #13
002 Catwoman #13
003 Catwoman #14

Chapter 1: The Joker is Back
004 Batman #13
005 Batman and Robin #13
006 Batman and Robin #14
007 Suicide Squad #14
008 Suicide Squad #15

Chapter 2: The Jokes on You
009 Batman #14
010 Detective Comics #15
011 Batgirl #14
012 Batgirl #15
013 Batgirl #16
014 Batman #15
015 Batman and Robin #15
016 Batman and Robin #16
017 Detective Comics #16
Detective Comics #17 (Optional, Highly Recommended)
018 Nightwing #15
019 Nightwing #16
020 Red Hood and The Outlaws #15
021 Teen Titans #15
022 Red Hood and The Outlaws #16
023 Teen Titans #16
024 Batman #16
025 Batman #17

Epilogue: The Last Laugh
026 Red Hood and The Outlaws #17
027 Red Hood and The Outlaws #18

As for Zero Year, as far as I know it's divided in three sections called Secret City, Dark City and Savage City. It runs from Batman's main title issue #21 - #27 and #29 - #33. With most of the other main DCU titles issues #25 being tie-ins to Zero Year

As for the Batgirl Annual #1, I'm not entirely sure but I think that still fits in the Court of Owls storyline. But I might be wrong there.

Hope this helped =)

[Forever Knight]

Yeah that route looks like it's the proper reading for Death in the Family. Thanks for the help!

So I guess Batgirl Annual #1 could take place at the end of the Night of Owls arc, right before Batgirl's Knightfall arc.

[MajorHoy]

By the way, wouldn't this question be better off in the SEPARATE Batman sub-section of the Forum, rather than here under the more general "DC Comics" heading?

[PyroSikTh]

As I read it in trades, I found there wasn't really many continuity problems reading Batman #13-16 then the order that's in the Joker: Death of the Family book, and then closing everything with #17.

The only problems to be aware of are like Suicide Squad occurs largely before the event, setting it up, and the Detective Comics issues I just can't quantify at all. Other than that, all the tie-ins (in my opinion) are best read in chunks as per their title, and the order of them really doesn't matter much.