Alger's review
Crisis on Infinite Earths
by Marv Wolfman, George Perez
Alger's review
Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman, George Perez
Alger's review
rating:
recommended for: anyone who has an appreciation for the DCU
What makes this book so unprecedented is the grandeur of what it seek to do and ultimately accomplishes, which is the unification of a very diverse panoply of mythological characters and personas. The DC Universe and its characters had snowballed into a very vast and diverse scene over a fifty-five year period. What this did was give an enema to the whole thing and create a crisis, so large, so catastrophic, so all encompassing, that every character who even graced one panel of a DC comic was put into it and lent a part in the resolution. The straits created were so dire that hero and villain alike had to stand united, side-by-side to stop the wave of oblivion from wiping everything away. Only recently has anyone attempted to do something remotely like this -- those being Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, and Greg Rucka, them being the writers of the year long event called "52" -- however to accomplish this same feet they had 52 issues to do it and four men to write t...more
