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Crisis on Infinite Earths (DC Comics Crossovers)

by Marv Wolfman, George Pérez (Illustrator)

3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 · rating details · 6,108 ratings · 150 reviews

In 1985, the shape of the DC Universe was irrevocably changed by the legendary 12-issue series "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Now, the epic that saw the heroic deaths of the 1960s Flash, Barry Allen and the original Supergirl, as well as the consolidation of DC's multiple Earths into a single, unified world, is collected at last in a trade paperback. This powerful tale featu...more

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Published January 1st 2001 by DC Comics (first published 1984)

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May 02, 2013 Drew Mochak rated it 1 of 5 stars

This is meant as a capsule review of the entire run including Countdown, Final Chrisis, 42, Crisis on Infinit Earths, et. al. BLEH! A pox on all this boring SHITE. So the plot is, and someone interrupt me if I miss a bit, that the universe, nay, the MULTIVERSE, is under attack. Either from villains called, literally, Dark Side, or the Anti-Monitor, from--again, totally serious--the planet Apocalipse... or nothing at all, just antimatter entropy. And our square-jawed hero brigade must stop this f...more

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Mar 11, 2013 Helmut Barro rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, superheroes

Crisis! More Crisis! Most Crisis!

Jedem Crossover-Titel der letzten 50 Jahre das Wort "Crisis" mit in den Titel zu schreiben war keine gute Idee. Das Ziel, "Neulesern den Einstieg ins DC universum leichter zu machen", wird sicherlich nicht damit erreicht, dass man kaum ausmachen kann, wo die Geschichte anfängt und wo sie aufhört. Wer sich für die Multiverse-Geschichte des DC-Universums interessiert, fängt bei "Crisis on Multiple Earths - The Team Ups Vol. 1" an, geht dann zu "Crisis on Multiple E...more

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Sep 15, 2012 The Dark Lord rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

what you got here is a .RAR comic book containing near 4 decades history of DC universe, more superheroes, super villains and locations you could hope to remember unless you are a diehard DC comics (and all their subsidiaries and comic companies they bought and integrated to their own universe) fan.
The story which I'm not going to talk about is actually epic, well-paced and entertaining. Being only hampered by authors trying to involve almost every super power welding individual out there in the...more

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Aug 16, 2012 Jerry Don rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

I love frakking love comic books, and I've been hearing about this massive crossover for years, so I finally decided to take the plunge. And...I was a little disappointed. I mean, it's epic in scope, but perhaps, in this case, that's a bad thing. It seems that the writer tried too hard to put too much into this multi-issue story arc. It literally included every hero in the DC Universe at the time and this makes the story cumbersome. The story idea is a good one, and it is interesting enough to f...more

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Feb 01, 2012 Jon Lynch rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Dec 12, 2010 Aaron rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

This 1980s book is famous as the first attempt to radically overhaul a sprawling, unmanageable fictional mythos: the DC Universe. I was interested to see how they did it.

The answer is, 'with superheroic levels of cheese'. This book is exactly what non-comic-readers think comics are. A colourful costume parade with Kirby crackle everywhere, firework-displays of energy beams, cheesy exposition - a bad guy wailing, 'NO YOU ARE DESTROYING ME' - shallow characterisation, severe ADD, and largely lacki...more

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Mar 15, 2010 Ryan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, superheroes

It's rare that a comics crossover series actually lives up to its own hype about how world-changing it would be, but the Crisis lived up to that hype at the time. Prior to it, DC had a multiverse - a bunch of different Earths, each with their own stable of superheroes and villians. Then the Crisis happened, and DC was left with one Earth, with all of those heroes living on it, and central characters like Superman, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman had their histories completely rebooted.

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Feb 15, 2010 Becca rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourite-books, graphic-novels

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Jun 13, 2009 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels, super-heroes, top-shelf

This, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the works that has affected me deeply. More importantly, it is something that has caused considerable harm to my wallet and bank account, as I have been collecting comic books for almost twenty-five years now, and it's all because of Crisis. I can still remember going to the drugstore after church one Sunday and seeing the cover to Crisis #9 - a classic George Perez group shot of some of the most terrible villains ever seen in the DC Universe. You name the b...more

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Mar 08, 2011 Juan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

¿A donde más puedes ir cuándo tu primer gran crossover involucra salvar al multiverso en múltiples ocasiones? ¿Cómo atraes de nuevo la atención de los lectores?

Al ser el primer crossover de semejante magnitud, es el punto de comparación para todos los crossovers posteriores. No todos pueden aspirar a la ambición de este esfuerzo de DC ni todos serán igualmente atractivos para el lector. Crisis on Infinite Earths sin duda cambió la manera en que se hacen los cómics y aún actualmente su legado per...more

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Dec 05, 2010 Christopher rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics-graphic-novels

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I think I need to avoid any more DC comics with 'Crisis' in the title. Maybe its just dated for me personally (I did start reading comics only in the mid to late '90's, and its not like you can't cast those as overly angst filled, grim slogs.) An epic mini-series that rewrote the multitudes of DC's various multiple/alternate Earths into one singular Earth to give the DC comics a sense of cohesion again. George Perez's clean but detailed depiction of epic events I've enjoyed more in other comics...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Dovile rated it 2 of 5 stars

What a mess...

The idea of merging multiple versions of the universe into one sounds quite interesting, but the execution was not impressive. There are almost all DC heroes and villains in this story, most of them little known, unless you were following pre-Crisis DC comics quite closely. The main characters were The Monitor, Harbinger, Pariah (of all who I've never heard before and didn't care about) and, later in the story, two Supermans. Except for a few good bits with Batgirl, Supergirl and...more

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May 14, 2010 Dave Johnson rated it 3 of 5 stars

a friend suggested this to me quite a while ago as we talked about some of the latest movies that spawned from comics. i guess if you were to classify me, i'm not a hardcore comic fan, and if you were to classify me even further, i'm more of a fan of Marvel than DC. but i still like some of DC's stories.

although i do like some of the protagonists in the stories, it seems like this wasn't written to be a good story, per se, but rather a means to an end. and, honestly, it shows. the writing in th...more

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Dec 03, 2011 Rob rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics, dc, graphic-novels, science-fiction, urban-fantasy, mississauga-public-library-books

Overall this was just an average read for me.

Instantly I could recognize the influence this collection has had on the comic book genre as a whole, it’s impossible not to realise how much Marvel ‘borrows’ from this storyline to fashion House of M as well as countless other incarnations of this universe-altering theme, including but not limited to Kingdom Come.

The story was too busy and all over the place with so many characters and subplot it was distracting rather than all consuming. And the e...more

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Apr 21, 2009 AmirCat rated it 4 of 5 stars

When I was but a wee lad, I remember picking up some of the issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths in the bargain bin at Walgreen's and being excited that I got some really expensive "old" comics. After reading them, I got really interested because it looked like they killed off main characters (I love that). Not until recently did I read the entire book as I picked up the absolute edition. I have to say, a lot of the book is devoted to characters to people I am unfamiliar with. The issues I had we...more

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Jan 10, 2013 Zach rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics

Ugh. What a mess. Crisis on Infinite Earths was intended to "streamline" the DC universe (or multiverse) by consolidating or doing away with multiple characters. With magic-science lasers. Lots of magic-science lasers. There is no characterization, suspense, tension or emotion (unless yelling counts as an emotion). Unless you are familiar with every major plotline of every major DC character, you will easily get lost in the swirl of yelling spandex and magic-science lasers, because the writers w...more

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Jul 10, 2011 Bevans rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow, that was a hell of a thing.

This is a non-stop, almost-out-of-control bullet train. The story is in constant super-crisis mode (fittingly) from start to finish, with almost no lulls in the action. That's fun, but also fairly exhausting. I would've preferred some downtime - or even slightly-less-shocking events between shocking events - to focus on rounding out the story and characters, but since it was created as a 12-part comic series with months between each issue, I can understand why it...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Adrian Alvarez rated it 3 of 5 stars

"Explain that to me, Harbinger! What happened to my life? I am flesh and blood... I exist... yet I don't exist."

This is a wild read. Originally intended as a sort of business move for DC Comics, who had by that time created so many different versions of characters on so many different Earths (for example, Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth 3, Earth X, Earth Prime, etc) that their DC Universe had become unwieldy, this comic was supposed to tidy things up and reset everything into one, congruent universe set...more "Explain that to me, Harbinger! What happened to my life? I am flesh and blood... I exist... yet I don't exist."

This is a wild read. Originally intended as a sort of business move for DC Comics, who had by that time created so many different versions of characters on so many different Earths (for example, Earth 1, Earth 2, Earth 3, Earth X, Earth Prime, etc) that their DC Universe had become unwieldy, this comic was supposed to tidy things up and reset everything into one, congruent universe setting. I am not well versed in comics, however, so the effect of reading this book was kind of amazing. I encountered pages and pages of characters I just had to assume meant something to other people. After 100 or so pages of this, the effect was to totally destabilize all notions of centralized, unique "superheros."

The existence of this heterogeneity of superheros, some with other worldly powers, some without even that distinction, causes the reader to follow their collective abstraction, since none have the page space to truly stand out. You follow "superhero-ness" as it fights against the evil... wait for it... Anti-monitor. Awesome name, mostly because it drives an entire dialectical plot towards (strangely) Hegelian concepts.

The Monitor is a character who has functioned throughout the ages as a sort of uber-voyeur/arms dealer. He watches every superhero on every planet and collects data on them (and I gather at one point he was selling this data to villains for cash). One could very easily interpret this character as a stand in for the avid comic book reader, only taller. In this particular story, the main baddy is the Monitor's twin brother, established at the beginning of the Universe's creation yet set in an anti-matter sphere. He is the Anti-monitor and he wants to destroy everything. Insert dramatic music and postmodern irony here.

The binary relationships are set and blurred many times over in this novel: superheros decentralize into the collective, super villains fight to retain their Hegelian dialectical relationships with superhero counterparts, thus calling into question their defining motives, the worldly threat (the anti-monitor's desire to condense all reality into a single anti-matter universe, his own) not only ties indirectly to the comic book reader's identity but underscores a weird sort of "negation of the negation."

In short, 1) all concepts in the DC Universe (characters, settings, origins, etc) are shown to have an opposite and opposing side, 2) as the balance between these sides shifts gradually, then suddenly, gradual changes lead to major turning points, which tumble and shift the nature of reality, and 3) all of these turning points develop as a "negation of the negation" and the DC Universe as well as all its characters are changed forever. In this case, consolidated into a unified universe with separate and unique parts (i.e. only one Earth) among other ways.

I definitely do not recommend this to just anyone. You have to either totally be into the world of comics already (in which case, my reading of it will be as bizarre to you as this novel was for me) or willing to really brave out some strange ideas with a huge collection of characters whom you never even knew existed. I liked reading this but only because I loved how campy it was and I found it intellectually engaging (in my own way).(less)

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May 14, 2009 Tim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

I really dig this kind of stuff...partially because I think, going into it, that it reminds of my childhood, but as with Crisis, it turns out I actually never did read this previous (but oh well).

I think I liked this most because it is sort of a crash course in remembering basically every DC hero (and villain) ever. Cameos, the obscurer, the better, get me...and this is really 300+ pages of cameos. George Pérez' art is great...simple and effective (and definitely something that brings me back to...more

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Aug 31, 2012 Natasha Hurley-Walker rated it 2 of 5 stars

In the spirit of trying something new, having never read anything inside the DC universe, I borrowed this from a friend. I have read maybe 25 graphic novels in my life, and I realised as I read this that I enjoyed them all considerably more than this. It was probably because I performed considerable pre-screening on my previous reads, as I don't like to spend £25 on something I'm not likely to enjoy. Neither am I happy giving up before the end, so even though every one of the thousand-or-so cast...more In the spirit of trying something new, having never read anything inside the DC universe, I borrowed this from a friend. I have read maybe 25 graphic novels in my life, and I realised as I read this that I enjoyed them all considerably more than this. It was probably because I performed considerable pre-screening on my previous reads, as I don't like to spend £25 on something I'm not likely to enjoy. Neither am I happy giving up before the end, so even though every one of the thousand-or-so cast was an utter cypher to me, I slogged onward.

Since there are so many, many characters, (view spoiler)dialogue usually takes an unnatural expository form such as:

Blue & Red heroine with yellow hair: "Diamond Boy, my microwave powers are doing no damage to these monsters!"
(now we know it's) Diamond Boy: "It's ok, Wavelength Girl, I'll erect a crystalline barrier!"

Or the way that every other scene ends:

Hero in very non-camo costume: "Oh no, they've trapped me, and my egg-scrambling powers are running low! Wait, what's that? CLING-WRAP WOMAN?"

Cling-Wrap Woman: "I've got this one, Blender Man. Ha, eat plastic, shadow-fiends!" *Wraps shadow-fiends in a tidy, fridge-safe package.*

Blender Man: "Oh no, watch out behind you! NO, NOO, NOT YOU DEBORAH! NOOOOO!"

Cling-Wrap Woman, whose is really Deborah, because this is a Tragic Scene, and we need to know that this relationship is close enough that the Rescuee knows the Rescuer's Real Identity: *Attacked from behind and dies.*

It was actually this kind of thing that I found really funny (maybe not in the way that it was intended), as well as all of the Seriously Bad Physics. Miners exploring 3,000 miles below the surface of the Earth, on foot? Check. People jumping around in space with no oxygen or spacesuits? Check. Utterly meaningless, purely plot-serving time- and space- travel? Check.

I say meaningless, because any one of these physics-breaking powers would make an interesting story in its own right, forming the 'magic wand' set-up for a good sci-fi story. And clearly there must have been bunch of comics that did this! But when you get to the point where all the 'Electricity-based Heroes' are supplying charge, the 'Light-based Heroes' supplying light, and the 'Speed-based Heroes' are running really fast around stuff to make things happen, it's just... pointless. It feels like fanfic. And according to the intro to the comic, it basically is.

I started this thinking it would be good for someone new to the DC universe, but honestly, unless you already have some favourite heroes and are looking forward to their three-scene contribution, there's nothing here for you but some pretty nifty art and a lot of amazingly cheesy dialogue.(less)

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Mar 14, 2010 Marco rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: dc

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I first read Crisis in my childhood and it helped change my vision on comics and at the time I was really impressed with superheroes and super-villains fighting and struggling to survive with several casualties in both sides.

Looking into it now, as an adult, it seems a bit naïve, that "neverending story" plot with a force consuming everyone from all the multiverses, excessive self-consciousines about good and evil and all its stereotypes being even more prominent over the passage of time and th...more

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Oct 25, 2009 Nazary rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Mar 14, 2010 William Johnson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, since-joining-goodreads

So, what do you do when you know next to nothing about the DC Universe? You decide to read the most complex, complicated, mind-boggingly convoluted saga in the company’s history, that’s what! For whatever reason I was compelled, for months it seemed, to pick up Crisis on Infinite Earths and read it. I can’t explain it but for some reason I decided I’d buy it and try it out. And while the book is everything I described above, it also happens to be a masterpiece of the comic art form and, whether...more So, what do you do when you know next to nothing about the DC Universe? You decide to read the most complex, complicated, mind-boggingly convoluted saga in the company’s history, that’s what! For whatever reason I was compelled, for months it seemed, to pick up Crisis on Infinite Earths and read it. I can’t explain it but for some reason I decided I’d buy it and try it out. And while the book is everything I described above, it also happens to be a masterpiece of the comic art form and, whether I knew it or not, built for knowledge-less saps like myself.

See, Crisis on Infinite Earths existed mainly because the DC universe was getting way too crazy. There were different universes (called the multiverse) and within those universes were many of the same characters. There were multiple Supermans, multiple Lex Luthors, multiple Wonder Womans, etc. etc. etc. It was chaos as an art form and the heads of DC just kinda said, ’screw it. Let’s give some of these people a last hurrah and start from scratch’. This bold idea led to a 12-issue miniseries where every single feasible character in DC’s mythos, whether appearing in one panel or in every scene, would combine to take on a literally universe-shattering menace. The inevitable result: the destruction of almost every single property in the DC canon (save one universe and one Earth) and a chance for DC to continue with a select few. The additions would be in readers.

And while I may have missed a few things due to my lack of knowledge of many of the characters and near complete ignorance of the multiple universes and their deep histories, the story is compelling in how final and epic it feels. There are 474 characters in this book and many of them. . .a majority in fact. . .die in this book. Some die without fanfare while others die in the most grand way possible. And even my lack of knowledge of some of them didn’t dampen my sadness for some of their passing. Crisis on Infinite Earths feels important. . .something very few comics, especially in this day and age (and Crisis was written in 1985), manage to do. And the primary culprit of such genius belongs to writer Marv Wolfman and the man behind the pencils George Perez.

Wolfman manages to take this confusing story and make it both palatable to those just entering the fray (like me) and to please those deep into the continuity and fandom. I am generally familiar with the Superman and Batman legacies and Wolfman managed to make the existence of two Supermans (one from Earth-2 and one from Earth-1) seem different even though they wear the same costume. This, of course, could not have been completed without Perez’s art. This story hardly allows for many one on one conversations. . .often there are 30-40 characters on a page at once. . .some who, like Superman, wear the same thing. Somehow Perez manages to make them distinct despite their picture-perfect similarities. The writing and art is a true wonder for fans of comics to behold. I’m glad, as late as I was to the party, I had the opportunity to enjoy it.

Crisis on Infinite Earths is about the existence of thousands of identical universes. These universes all have different outcomes and exist in different time periods but were created from the same source. The Earth we know is in the positive matter universe. But there is also an anti-matter universe that exists and anyone who lives there is kind of anti-anything positive, both physically and mentally. A creature called the Anti-Monitor is wiping out every universe in the positive side of existence and sucking in the energy. By the time the story starts, only five to eight universes still exist (hence five to eight earths). Over the course of the first few chapters, a number of Earths are destroyed.

A creature called the Monitor is trying to gather the remaining Earth’s greatest heroes and even their villains to fight the Anti-Monitor. As a new Earth falls, the Monitor grows weaker. Led by two Supermans, Dr. Light, Supergirl, a number of Flashes, a number of Green Lanterns, a sad man named Pariah, and an ambiguous heroine (and aid to Monitor) named Harbinger (just to name a few) lead an assault against the Anti-Monitor and his forces of shadowy evil. Naturally, villains mess up the harmony and also try to take advantage: Braniac, Lex Luthor, and Darkseid will play a role in the multiple Earths existence, for better or worse.

I have very little complaints about the whole thing: only a few times did I sit and scratch my head trying to figure out what was going on. But if I found myself confounding by a character’s random appearance or a motivation that made no sense to me, I rest assured that by the book’s end they’d either be dead or ‘rebooted’ so to speak. The greatest impact the book has, and this could be both positive and negative, is that the set up (11 issues worth) is so incredible that when everything kind of starts over *SPOILER* you feel a sadness for what was, a bit. Sure, it’s less complicated, but the existence of only ONE universe and ONE earth, and the non-existence of hundreds of characters can be a bit sad. Imagine if I was actually connected to all these guys as deeply as a DC enthusiast.

A LOT of people die. Supergirl and The Flash are probably the biggest casualties while Earth-2’s Superman goes into a special place (we aren’t really told) which left it open for future appearances (I’d guess). And there are some actually gripping things that occur with these deaths amongst others. Like I said, things feel FINAL here. For instance, one earth’s Bruce Wayne ceases to exist at the end and his daughter, also from that universe who manages to survive the extinction of that universe (long story), is alive to wonder who she is and WHY she is when, she really isn’t supposed to be anymore. Sad stuff. *END SPOILER*

My only real gripe is that some of the characters spend the entire book crying. Nothing wrong with a cry here or there but one of the main heroes of the story, Pariah, spends about 95% of his appearance crying his eyes out and whining. It grates a bit. But oh well. . .if that is the one thing I can think of in a story I’d thought would be impossible then Crisis on Infinite Earths is a resounding success. I highly recommend it and it will appeal whether you don’t know your Lois Lane from your Lana Lang or wear your Superman undies to bed.

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Oct 05, 2010 Sab rated it 1 of 5 stars

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this book was an absolute chore to read. a completely cluttered and ugly read that gives you a headache. there is far too much on a page and it is all badly connected from frame to frame. the colouring of the book is ugly, the dialogue is bad (lots of great scotts, announcing what they are doing while they do it and poor cop out explanations to what is going on). the characters are one dimensional and sometimes completely unlikeable.

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Apr 17, 2009 FunkyPlaid rated it 1 of 5 stars

One star for the effort of cleaning up the very messy DC universe. But seriously, reading this again as an adult was like homework; I simply couldn't wait to be done with it. Every single page has some DC hero shouting out his power and calling all the other heroes by their names after every interaction - just so we're clear who's who in this childish morass of a storyline. Too many trite Great Scotts! and Hera Help Mes!

Worst thing about it: Flash's Cosmic Treadmill!

Worst line within it: "Sudden...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Martin rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: used-to-own

I read this book about ten years ago (~ 2002), and already then it was dated. It was a product of its era, to be sure, and most likely "ground-breaking" at the time, but today it just seems stale. Moreover, you need a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the DCU to "get" all the nods & Easter eggs spread throughout, to spot all the heroes George Pérez crammed in there, or even simply to appreciate how much The [Barry Allen] Flash's sacrifice affected everyone - oops, I almost forgot to mention Su...more

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Jul 16, 2010 Phil Dean rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: comic-book

I've been avoiding reading this, since most of the pre-Crisis comics that I've read, particularly ones by Marv Wolfman, are just ridiculously cheesy. And while this is certainly cheesy, it's also pretty epic and amazing. Or, perhaps, my tolerance for cheese has gone up over the years.

It's really fun playing "Where's Waldo?" with all of the DC characters that George Perez has drawn in here. And I really do mean "all"; You've got everyone from Sgt. Rock to Jonah Hex. This feels like the fond farew...more

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Dec 02, 2011 Andy Connell rated it 1 of 5 stars

Yeeeaaahh.. Best way to describe it is this; look at the cover. See all those different heroes everywhere? They are all in it and get a page. I understand the idea of wanting to show the scope of the old DC multiverse but you really need to shave your cast down to like 10-12 characters max to run the story. Everything happens so fast that there is no time for the reader to care about anything or anyone, so when Wolfman tries to make you care (Super-Girl, The Flash) you are stuck going 'ok so? I...more

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Jul 16, 2012 Jake rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, dc-comics

This was the first comic I ever read. I had no experience reading a comic or graphic novel beforehand. It's a strange and risky book to jump into like that, but it worked for me. I wouldn't recommend doing that, though, because you could get really confused about all the characters that get thrown at you at once. I don't know how I managed it, but I was able to get around that and I loved the book nonetheless.

This book is still one of my favorite books of all time. It's full of action and myster...more

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Oct 19, 2012 Nick rated it 4 of 5 stars

Impressively orchestrated and meticulously researched, with a still-impressive metaphysical accomplishment of reshaping the DC universe with Author as God, but this is perhaps one of the most feverishly-paced and altogether overwhelming reads I've encountered, with scenes as short and abruptly switched between as the climax of a Guy Richie movie. However, feeling the author's knowing and purposeful hand in every new development thankfully holds the experience together. Just when you think shit i...more

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