By: Geoff Johns Publisher: DC Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: DC Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 264 Publication Date: February 27, 2008 Release Date: January 16, 2008
Product Description: The incredible event that rocked the DC Universe and led into 52 is available now for the first time in trade paperback! A critical moment in history has divided Earths three greatest super-heroes: Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. As the worlds greatest super-villains unite, magical forces go awry, and humanity is threatened by mystery OMAC robots, long-lost heroes from the past have returned to make things right again at any cost.Its the DC Universes darkest day: Heroes will live, heroes will die, and the DCU will never be the same again. This comprehensive volume includes story annotations, character designs, script excerpts, previously unseen artwork and much more.
The Ongoing Adventure of Crisis! Great continuing story of the Crisis. This explains the origins of Superboy prime and more regarding the merging of DC storylines into one continuous storyline. Even better than Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Very good tie ins to the DC multiverse The book is a great read for those who want to have some closure on the DC Multiverse. I did my research before I purchased this product so I knew what I would be getting. Great artwork to accompany the story telling. (Who knew Batman even cared!)Of course when you get this many artists together, there will be some periods where the artwork is not what it should be! (The Supermen battle falls way short artistically and is the only point where the story falll short!)
Outside of those two items, this is a excellent book. The delievery from Amazon was great! On-time and the book was in great condition.
Infinitely Good! I'll always wonder what I would've thought of this collection if I hadn't read the novelization first (which is excellent). However, this is still good stuff, and the art, while it doesn't match up to George Perez's art in Crisis, is still quite good. It's an interesting storyline, and it once again leaves things open for a sequel, which I'm sure won't be 20 years in the making again with Superboy. If you liked Crisis on Infinite Earths, this is worthwhile to catch up on life in the DC Universe again!
Great Read I had picked this trade up and thumbed through it many times and my local stores and didn't think much of it. I decided to bite the bullet and get it and was VERY impressed. I really like how DC (especially in the past 3 years or so) has done so much character concentration. I actually collected all of the 52 trades before this and wanted to read this to get a little background info. Needless to say, a great read. The artwork isn't as good as Sinestro Corps (the pinnacle of comic book art right now, IMO), but it is still very good.
A Decent Sequel That Could Have Been Better... I put off reading Infinite Crisis for a time because I heard alot of the fanboys complaining about it. Finally I picked up the TPB and gave it a read. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it. Now, Infinite Crisis works as a sequel (much smaller in scope) to Crisis on Infinite Earths and as with most sequels it loses quite a bit of magic from the original.
But Infinite Crisis has plenty of strengths that should make it a solid recommend for any DC Fan. It delivers outstanding artwork, it creates two solid new villains (one misguided, one insane), it allows us to care for Superboy far more than I've ever cared for him before, and it continues to show growth in the DC Universe...they do these mega-crossover events FAR better than Marvel.
On the weakness front there are two big ones: first and foremost is that it's a tough read to get into because due to DC having a hundred smaller "event" books that lead up to Infinite Crisis a reader reads Issue 1 and feels like it should be Issue 12. Geoff Johns (one of my favorite writers) does not do a good job of easing the reader into this story. The second fault is that Infinite Crisis is too short. I believe it was 6 or 7 issues total. I never understand why when comic publishers plan these massive events they choose to sell themselves (and the readers) short. GO OVER 10 TO 12 ISSUES! Make it BIG, deliver some awesome fights that have time to play out, and had they gone this route they would also have been able to ease the reader into the storyline as well.
All this said, there are worse comics to read than Infinite Crisis. Give it a shot...but I'd still always start with CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS the rosetta stone of any mega-crossover event.
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