Customer Reviews

Infinite Crisis - Part 1 (DC Comics)

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I have made it through 2 of the CDs so far, and have to say this is impressive. Unlike most audiobooks, you get a different voice actor for each part. That helps the depth immensely. In addition, there are sound effects galore. When things are blowing up, your speakers are doing crashing and rumbling. Bullets fly to the sounds of bullets. Crashing buildings sound like a good sound special effect from a good movie.

This is not an audiobook. It is a dramatic play of a graphic novel, in the same vein as a very well produced old time radio drama--but with crisp sound and an incredible plot.

It give a great amount of entertainment for just a few dollars.

I've never read any DC Comics - or any comics, for that matter - and I couldn't quite wrap my brain around listening to one, so I had absolutely no idea what to expect going into this. Suffice to say, I was extremely impressed. The format of the story is much like an old-fashioned radio show. A multi-voiced cast blends perfectly with sound effects to create exactly what the tagline touts: a movie in your mind. The plot was engaging and exciting, and I found I needed no prior knowledge of any of the characters or their backstories to follow along (I should note that a friend of mine who grew up on DC Comics also listened to this CD, and then raved about it for weeks... so it gets a thumbs up from avid DC Comic readers, too). I order audio materials for a public library, and was so impressed by this CD that I ordered several other GraphicAudio CDs to add to our collection - and they're extremely popular. Definitely worth a listen!

First off, I want to say that this review covers both parts one & two. One other disclaimer, I have read the original source material. This is the first audiobook I have bought in quite a while. In days gone by(the audio cassette days) I had a fairly extensive collection of them (actually I still have all stuffed away in a box). I enjoyed Infinate Crisis quite a bit. It claims to be a movie in my mind and I would say it is not quite that but it is more than a standard audio book. a cast of actors, sound effects and score elevate it. It does truly drag you into the story, I was fully engrossed.

This is a great fun. I use it to make the ride to work go buy faster.The voice acting is fun and sfx are really cool.

Superheroes around the world are facing three threats; one from a group of supervillians who have banded together and led by Lex Luther; the second threat is from an advance security system created by Batman to watch other superheroes. The system eventually began thinking on its own coming up with its own agenda, altering human dna and changing them into unthinking cybernetic warriors, whose sole role is to hunt down and destroy super powered beings; the threat comes from an insane supernatural being called the Spectre, his goal is to destroy all magic. On top of all this danger, the three founding members of the Justice League (Superman, Wonder Woman & Batman) have personal grudges against one another and will no longer fight as a team.

With a full cast and super sound effects, the audio production was excellent. I could picture all the action and felt the emotional turmoil of the characters. There was an underwater fight scene where the voices were a little annoying but it wasn't enough to distract from the story telling. I recommend this book.

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The Friday House
Lost Hours

The amount of detail in this dramatisation could never be done on film, this new - movies in your minds is fantastic.

If you are expecting something along the lines of the Dirk Maggs audio versions of the Batman, Spiderman and Superman stories you are likely to be disappointed with Inifinite Crisis. Although it is much longer (at 13 hours in total) it is much more like a read story, with a narrator providing all the descriptive content and the actors just inserting the occasional line of dialogue. I had been expecting more of a dramatized version of the stories, with the entire storyline acted out rather than a read story with some different voices. Because there is so much description and very little dialogue it doesn't fully engage as a dramatic piece. I found the music and effects, which are certainly comprehensive, to be actually quite off-putting and detracting from the whole thing. It made me wonder why they had done a half a job by having a narrator for so much of the audio - why not just dramatize it all and make it a REAL "movie in your mind" which is what it's advertised as. For fans it might prove interesting, but I would still recommend the Knightfall, Superman Lives and Adventures of Superman as much more engaging Superhero audio products.