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A little help here, DC?, August 19, 2006
This review is from: Superman: Infinite Crisis (Comic)
Think back to the end of DC's 1985 series Crisis on Infinite Earths: Alexander Luthor led the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane, and the Earth-Prime Superboy, to a heavenly dimension in order to escape the effects of the Crisis. There, these characters would supposedly live out their days in happiness. Well, now we find that since COIE, heaven isn't exactly what they thought it'd be, and they've watched helplessly as events such as the death of Superman and the coming of Parallax, have made the DC Universe a darker place. So Earth-2 Superman decides to do something about it, bringing about... the Infinite Crisis.
I guess I'm at a disadvantage since I don't collect monthly comics but instead wait for the trade collections. It could be that if I would have read each monthly tie-in to DC's Infinite Crisis, I'd have a better understanding of what's happening in SUPERMAN: INFINITE CRISIS. Regardless, that really shouldn't be an issue. In the case where it's necessary to throw together stories from several different titles, DC usually helps the reader somewhat by providing text pages that explain "the story so far", and even what may be happening inbetween. This was not one of those cases. The stories are disjointed, the art highly inconsistent from one story to the next, and whole pages of story seem to be missing. Honestly, I'm fairly familiar with DCU history and the developments in Infinite Crisis, and I had a really difficult time with this book; however, it does bring about one very interesting development, giving an explanation for exactly WHY the DC Universe has become such a dark place over the past 20 years. So, well-played on that front - I just wish that there were more story here to explain what is going on. It seems like a random collection of stories, as if these were the fragments that didn't fit into any of the other numerous trades DC has planned around Infinite Crisis.
This book collects SUPERMAN #226, ACTION COMICS #836, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #649, and stories from INFINITE CRISIS SECRET FILES 2006. Writers include Joe Kelly, Marv Wolfman and Jeph Loeb; with art by Ed Benes, Lee Bermejo, Howard Chaykin, Ian Churchill, Karl Kerschl, Phil Jimenez, Dan Jurgens, Ed McGuinness, Jerry Ordway, Tim Sale, and others. Great roster of talent, but overall not a very reader-friendly collection.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Did the Multiverse End? No Thanks!, April 22, 2007
This review is from: Superman: Infinite Crisis (Comic)
Segments from Infinite Crisis Secret Files & Origins, Infinite Crisis # 5, Superman # 226, Action Comics # 836 and Adventures of Superman # 649 form the viewpoint of both Supermen -- "ours" and the aging one from Earth-2 -- about the Infinite Crisis. A unique way to share with the Men of Steel and their relatives the disintegration of the one arid, single-Earth universe, along with the grandiose attempt to bring back to life a Universe That Was. Love, glory, misery & conflict in a nostalgic examination of the Superman myth. Also, in my point of view, one of the best comics about post-9/11 reality. For Superman fans; best enjoyed after reading the complete "Infinite Crisis" saga and related matters. More than the four official Countdowns to I.C., this is to me the the item to collect, along with the special Countdown which featured the Blue Beetle and Golden Boost. All in all, a poignant way to remember us that, twenty-plus years after the original Crisis (or Crime), the Multiverse is still THE narrative device around which the whole DC reality spins.
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Needless Infinite Crisis side story, March 30, 2007
This review is from: Superman: Infinite Crisis (Comic)
The comics collected in this Superman: Infinite Crisis TPB attempt to focus on the original, Earth-2 Superman and his dying wife Lois Lane during the cataclysmic main events of Geoff Johns' universe shattering Infinite Crisis. What we get here is an incredible roster of talent in terms of both writers (Jeph Loeb, Joe Kelly, and original Crisis on Infinite Earths mastermind Marv Wolfman) and artists (Ed Benes, Tim Sale, and the great Phil Jimenez who lent his pencils to Infinite Crisis), who all do nothing more than conjure up one big mess. Due to the varying creative minds, this TPB feels so uneven and incomprehensible that newbies to the event will be mind boggled, and even some veteran fans may be as well. The overall story adds absolutely nothing to Infinite Crisis, not to mention that no one's interpretation of the original Earth-2 Superman is as heart felt as Johns'. Possibly worth a look for die hard collectors needing every Infinite Crisis tie-in TPB, but for the rest, this is best left on the shelf.
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