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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
When the CW DC shows announced that next year's crossover would take on that granddaddy of comic lore, the Crisis of Infinite Earths, I decided to delve in and see what I was in for. It's an incredible epic, no question. Still, I felt a little bit lost. If you know a LOT about the comics, it's a huge cameo-fest of heroes in every corner of the DC Universe. If you know some of them, it can get a bit confusing. I would have loved the producers of the e-book version to have taken advantage of the multi-media capacity of that format and allowed the reader to click on a character and be taken to a brief recap of who they are, why they were significant and what to look out for. Many times they were not referred to by name, so I couldn't even look them up on Wikipedia. I will be very interested to see how Greg Berlanti takes this on in the fall.
The italics were really hard to read. Had a nice message at the end about looking toward the future without forgetting the past.
adventurous
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Complex and interesting, though harried. Fantastic story, but I generally prefer single stories.
It's a classic and an important moment in comic-book history. For that alone it is worth reading as it was the first truly all-encompassing company-wide cross-over, and it also featured changes to many classic characters, most importantly (in my opinion) The Flash and the original Supergirl. The ramifications from this event lasted twenty years, only to be concluded with the recent Infinity Crisis.
This is was disappointing for me, this book was supposed to excite me and leave me hanging on my seat but when reading all I wanted to do was put it down. The book is so confusing, it always switches perspective on every other page and it’s hard to focus on something. It’s so hard to read when the lettering is so bad and there are characters I’ve never heard of being main characters.
One of the factors of why this story was so hard to read and it goes for most of the oldie books I read is the terrible art, I don’t know if it was the cool thing to do back then or just that they had no digital art but they just splash everything with neon and it’s disgusting.
I also wasn’t happy with how they dealt with the death of green arrow and dove, they just show them in one panel and they’re done, no more screen time for them.
The reason this is a three star is because the last few issues were pretty good and were pretty satisfying to read which is something good I can say about the book.
Overall ok book.
One of the factors of why this story was so hard to read and it goes for most of the oldie books I read is the terrible art, I don’t know if it was the cool thing to do back then or just that they had no digital art but they just splash everything with neon and it’s disgusting.
I also wasn’t happy with how they dealt with the death of green arrow and dove, they just show them in one panel and they’re done, no more screen time for them.
The reason this is a three star is because the last few issues were pretty good and were pretty satisfying to read which is something good I can say about the book.
Overall ok book.
With Convergence approaching and me having some unexpected time on my hands, I decided to REread DC Comics's previous universe-changing crossovers this week. The original Crisis from 1986 remains the gold standards against which this type of story is judged: epic, compelling, and although there are many moments of shock and horror, there are just as many character moments of hope and triumph. Worlds lived, worlds died, and the way stories were told was never the same.
Man did this book quickly become a complete chore to read! I wanted to read it to learn about the beginning of the “modern” DC universe to help kickstart me into all the amazing books in the DC universe. At first I was intrigued, the book was obviously very dated (and had not aged well in terms of writing), but it was still enjoyable. However, the CONSTANT repetition of events was so tiresome. When something did progress the story (very slowly) it was interesting. But you had to get through the 500 word bubbles of filler per page for 30-50 pages before anything even happened. Long story short, I respect this book for what it is and what it did in its time, but go look at the synopsis on Wikipedia, and see how short the full story is told on there, and then wonder why on earth this book is almost 370 pages
This book is wickedly dense! There is so much going on, all the time. It’s unbelievable. Readers will have to re-read a few times to get it all and to fully appreciate/understand everything that is going on.
The artwork is also super dated: welcome to the 80s! Lots of pink lightning and it looks to have been printed on a dot-matrix printer. The scenes depicted are also dated, complete with teased hair & sweatbands on foreheads and wrists!
The artwork is also super dated: welcome to the 80s! Lots of pink lightning and it looks to have been printed on a dot-matrix printer. The scenes depicted are also dated, complete with teased hair & sweatbands on foreheads and wrists!