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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Sometimes when reviewing things you just need to be honest. This book is an important part of comic book history and set the mold for event comics to come. The art is great and it features numerous moments of great, moving drama.
But mostly? But mostly it's a confusing mess that spends a lot of time on characters I'm just not very familiar with. Which isn't to say it sucks. It's actually pretty good... but it simply outwears its welcome. I can't judge as a reader of a ton of golden age and silver comics because I simply haven't read many and I can't judge it as if I were reader in 1985. I have to judge it as it stands...
Personally, I found the book too dense and busy to really ever find much to grasp onto. But there's no denying how cool this would've been had I been the target reader at the time.
But even aside from the focus on B and C list heroes I feel like far too much time is spent on drama involving the new characters like Pariah/Harbinger/The Monitor. Like Pariah got several orders of magnitude of development more than than Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Aquaman COMBINED. And he wasn't an interesting character. I mostly found myself amused at his reaction faces. Which only became more amusing as I kept realising how often the artist drew the same damn shocked reaction faces over and over and over again (to be clear: I thought the art in this book was great, but the repeated uses of the faces was hilarious.)
So it's not that this is mediocre... it's just dated and not really for me but I'm glad I took the time to read it.
But mostly? But mostly it's a confusing mess that spends a lot of time on characters I'm just not very familiar with. Which isn't to say it sucks. It's actually pretty good... but it simply outwears its welcome. I can't judge as a reader of a ton of golden age and silver comics because I simply haven't read many and I can't judge it as if I were reader in 1985. I have to judge it as it stands...
Personally, I found the book too dense and busy to really ever find much to grasp onto. But there's no denying how cool this would've been had I been the target reader at the time.
But even aside from the focus on B and C list heroes I feel like far too much time is spent on drama involving the new characters like Pariah/Harbinger/The Monitor. Like Pariah got several orders of magnitude of development more than than Green Arrow, Green Lantern and Aquaman COMBINED. And he wasn't an interesting character. I mostly found myself amused at his reaction faces. Which only became more amusing as I kept realising how often the artist drew the same damn shocked reaction faces over and over and over again (to be clear: I thought the art in this book was great, but the repeated uses of the faces was hilarious.)
So it's not that this is mediocre... it's just dated and not really for me but I'm glad I took the time to read it.
It's kind of embarrassing to even post that I read this, let alone put up a little review. But I should document stuff I read, right?
I'm between books, so I re-read this again the last couple of nights. DC's got a Final Crisis going on right now that's tangentially related to this "first" Crisis. (The "Crisis on Earth[s]" title was first used in some early Justice League stories.) I can already see that there's only some relation between the two.
This is simply a big, fun mess of a story, done competently with detailed art and fairly clear plotting. As a big super-hero event it's quite successful, and it's fairly stand-alone. You can't get much bigger than universes dying, universes reborn, Earths merging, battles at the Dawn of Time, tons of characters from the history of DC Comics (and Charleton Comics and Whiz Comics), and so forth. I read it first in single issues a year after it was published, and it still holds up for what it is.
It would be incomprehensible to a non-DC Comics superhero reader and likely pretty confusing for someone who doesn't have extensive experience with comics circa 1985.
I'm between books, so I re-read this again the last couple of nights. DC's got a Final Crisis going on right now that's tangentially related to this "first" Crisis. (The "Crisis on
This is simply a big, fun mess of a story, done competently with detailed art and fairly clear plotting. As a big super-hero event it's quite successful, and it's fairly stand-alone. You can't get much bigger than universes dying, universes reborn, Earths merging, battles at the Dawn of Time, tons of characters from the history of DC Comics (and Charleton Comics and Whiz Comics), and so forth. I read it first in single issues a year after it was published, and it still holds up for what it is.
It would be incomprehensible to a non-DC Comics superhero reader and likely pretty confusing for someone who doesn't have extensive experience with comics circa 1985.
adventurous
dark
inspiring
medium-paced
Everything about this book is huge. The plot, the cast list, the 80s hair. Really interesting to read given its significance to the DC universe though.
Crisis on Infinite Earths is on everyone's must read list so I was really excited to read it. Unfortunately I did not enjoy it. I thought the art could use more detail and the story just was slow especially for a big crisis story.
This one started slow, kind of boring, and the writing was a bit annoying at times, very old school...with characters over explaining their thoughts and actions taking place...
...but once you get past that, it’s great. I ended up really enjoying this crazy and overwhelming story.
...but once you get past that, it’s great. I ended up really enjoying this crazy and overwhelming story.
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No