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Crisis on Infinite Earths Paperback – Illustrated, December 1, 2000
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- Print length364 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDc Comics
- Publication dateDecember 1, 2000
- Dimensions6.61 x 0.52 x 10.16 inches
- ISBN-109781563897504
- ISBN-13978-1563897504
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George Pérez started drawing at the age of five and hasn't stopped since. Born on June 9, 1954, Pérez began his professional comics career as an assistant to Rich Buckler in 1973. After establishing himself as a penciller at Marvel Comics, Pérez came to DC in 1980, bringing his highly detailed art style to such titles as Justice League of America and Firestorm. After co-creating The New Teen Titans in 1980, Pérez and writer Marv Wolfman reunited for the landmark miniseries Crisis On Infinite Earths in 1985. In the aftermath of that universe-smashing event, Pérez revitalized Wonder Woman as the series' writer and artist, reestablishing her as one of DC's preeminent characters and bringing in some of the best sales the title has ever experienced. He has since gone on to illustrate celebrated runs on Marvel's The Avengers, CrossGen's Solus, and DC's The Brave and the Bold.
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- ASIN : 1563897504
- Publisher : Dc Comics; Reprint edition (December 1, 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 364 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781563897504
- ISBN-13 : 978-1563897504
- Item Weight : 1.36 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.61 x 0.52 x 10.16 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #31,903 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #52 in PC-compatible Games
- #64 in DC Comics & Graphic Novels
- #307 in Superhero Comics & Graphic Novels
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Marv Wolfman has created more characters that have gone on to television, animation, movies and toys than any other comics creator since Stan Lee. Marv is the writer-creator of Blade, the Vampire Hunter which has been turned into three hit movies starring Wesley Snipes, as well as a TV series. Marv also created Bullseye, the prime villain in the 2003 movie, Daredevil, and was the writer-creator of the New Teen Titans which was a runaway hit show on the Cartoon Network. It has also been picked up as a live action movie. Marv's character Cyborg, has also been featured on the TV show Smallville, while his Superman creation, Cat Grant, was a regular on the Lois And Clark, The New Adventures of Superman TV series. Many of Marv's other characters have appeared on many animated series.
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Flash forward three decades later, comics have become oversaturated with so many crossover events, deaths, relaunches, reboots, and reimaginings so as to become virtually meaningless. These aren't the special events they used to be. Now, it can be said that Crisis is the one that started it all. I can't pretend that I'd know what it would be like for a first time reader to pick up this book and try to make sense of it all, because I'm an avid comic book reader from way back (long before all the mega-events & crossovers). I was familiar with a majority of the characters in Crisis, so I had no difficulty keeping up with what was happening in the story. Moreover, I always find something new to be surprised and delighted by with each new reading. Kudos to Marv Wolfman, George Perez, and Jerry Ordway for crafting a magnificent tale that's as enjoyable now as it was three decades ago.
This book should be required reading for anyone who enjoys superhero comics. DC has tried going back to the well again, but with disastrous results (Infinite Crisis, among others). Marvel has also "gone beyond the pale" in a lot of their event book,as well. As i said, I'm glad to have Crisis On Infinite Earths in my collection.
He also has these multiple stories going on all around the main one, so the pages are VERY BUSY and distracting at times, but to his credit, he wanted a full nod to most heroes and a few villains, and at least inclusion for all of the rest and he did an excellent job, but don't expect to read it just once and get it all. Two very key characters die, but it was necessary for this novel thing they were doing, which is to go back to just one earth and one reality, which means a lot of the heroes and villains don't make it, though one of them just had another earth's version take over the role, and it was no big thing. The other one was major and they did a double-sized issue on that heroine.
Also, while getting them all is cool, but did Kamandi the Last Boy on Earth really need a major role? They didn't even bother to give the poor kid a shirt, and then left him alone AGAIN on his horrible earth with some lame "you know the monsters here best" excuse, but he's a KID though he shouldn't look exactly like he did when I read a couple issues in the run 50 years ago. Little flaws like that and the constant but unnecessary appearance of things like dinosaurs for the villains to suddenly have trouble fighting is just sloppy filler. Seriously, TWO pterodactyls hold Superman's arms back like nothing and suddenly he's helpless? It's a common occurrence in comics to try and balance heroes and villains so they match up better, and it's a bad one.
Overall, it's a great book and story from a great writer with a tough job and a MAJOR turning point for Marvel at the time as well, but now multiverses are all the rage (it used to be time travel), so having all sorts of versions of other heroes, villains and realities still goes on. DC itself followed this with the Zero Hour crisis where another villain, Parallax, wanted to go back to the beginning of time and rewrite it all, and there was one more with the Monarch, both of whom were actually heroes that went bad due to loss and grief.
I recommend this graphic novel highly if you love comics and know most of them well-enough, but most other people would be confused as all get-out so I wouldn't recommend this to a new reader to comics or a casual one.



















