Infinite Crisis

Geoff Johns

Feb 2008 · DC Comics

About this ebook

The 7-issue miniseries event that rocked the entire DC Universe in 2005-2006—a sequel to the epic CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS—is now collected digitally! Written by Geoff Johns (GREEN LANTERN, TEEN TITANS) with art by a who's who of comics' greatest talents—including Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Jerry Ordway, and more, this hardcover is a must-have for any DC collector. OMAC robots are rampaging, magic is dying, villains are uniting, and a war is raging in space. And in the middle of it all, a critical moment has divided Earth's three greatest heroes: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. It's the DCU's darkest day, and long-lost heroes from the past have returned to make things right in the universe...at any cost. Heroes will live, heroes will die, and the DCU will never be the same again! This exhaustive volume also contains every cover and variant produced for the project, annotations, character designs, excerpts from scripts, unused scenes, and much more.

Ratings and reviews

Disappointed. Great art. BUT lazy writing. I hate comics that turn great characters and heroes into the worst of villains or antagonists. Marvel did it with the Scarlet Witch. DC did it with this story. Self-sacrificing, thoughtful, awesome characters are somehow now the worst smolderingly plotting, underhanded villains. Even the threats to the universe are hastily contrived and certainly feel that way. Tying-in the whole DC universe in nearly as fun a way as the original Crisis, DC has at its core a flimsy plot based on characters doing a complete 180 degree turn at every single turn. Plenty of this nonsense was accomplished in equally silly ways in "one-off" issues in past decades. I heard myself sighing at all too often and found myself having to stop several times to reposition my desire to finish and find purchase to finally surmount this cliff of a tale. Is it worth the purchase? I guess. Great art? Yes. Great scenarios, yes (heroes fighting each other in fun dramatic ways). Does it matter that the impetous is thppt?

It's no Crisis on Infinite Earths. Or Kingdom Come. Or another Identity Crisis for that matter. It's lovely and worth the $10 I spent. But the story is short on explanation and long on hand waving any questions. The two antagonists - Earth 3 Alex Luthor and Earth Prime Superhoy -aren't given any reason why they can do the things they can do. This is especially true with Earth 2 Superboy, who takes on everyone and wins almost every fight. Why? How? He's a threat to destroy the entire universe and cause a new big bang at one point. I'm like... really? Superboy? This is his canonical power level? Where it takes Earth 1 Superman AND Earth 2 Superman to merely contain him? After the entire Green Lantern Corp merely slows him down? With multiple Lanterns dying in the effort? After Flash and Kid Flash seem to destroy the Speed Force just to. ..imprison? Something, imprison Superboy Prime for a short time. Pretty silly when Superboy is shown to be more powerful than the enitre Green Lantern Corp yet there's no explanation given at all as to how, why. We're never given an explanation as to why Superboy Prime is such a moron now, either. He's short tempered. He has little education. He doesn't know the definition of "hypocrisy". He's - literally - just a dumb brute. Are we given an explanation. No, we're not And why Alex Luthor can, literally, grab entire planets in his hands. And smush them together. Without destroying them! Explanation? No, just ignore that and look at the pretty explosions! The art is generally good. Though it's so inconsistent that it gets distracting. But all in all it was good. Not great, hence the 4 stars, but completely decent.

Before hand I suggest u read (CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS TO REALLY GET WHATS GOING ON.) This book being the sequel & better.This book was great from beginning to end well written & beautiful art work!! You won't get bord or tired of this book ever.. 10/10