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3.66 AVERAGE
3.66 AVERAGE
adventurous
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adventurous
dark
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hopeful
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The new perspective on the story of the Crisis was interesting, but Wolfman is definitely a better comic author than novelist.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Not having read the back catalog of all DC books prior to this crossover event makes reading this a little tough. There are so many characters and locations. The story was pretty good, but it felt a little slow. This might be due to trying to cram in every DC hero that ever existed and have them do something meaningful. I think people who have read a bunch of the old DC books would get more out of this than I did. The art was great, but anything that I've seen from Perez always is.
My first plunge into the world of DC superhero-comics. This came highly recommended on several websites and best-of lists. I can definitely see why, since the story is very ambitious, all DC heroes appear in it and the bad guy is pretty awesome. However, it is not at all suitable as the first comic to read when entering the DC Universe.. I knew most characters, but am sure to have missed all sorts of references to events/relationships in the past. This made the story lose a lot of the impact that it must have had on readers familiar with DC comics. I can only imagine how great this must have been for them!
This was certainly an interesting choice to introduce myself to the DC Universe in terms of comic books. I have seen movies and television series (both animated and not), but the bulk of my knowledge of DC comics comes from my husband and his long relationship with the Batman franchise.
While I enjoyed the story-line, I'm missing a lot of the history that led up to it, and much of the back-story relating to the alternate universes. I got the feeling I would have gotten more out of it if I'd already been a fan than as a bit of a newbie.
While I enjoyed the story-line, I'm missing a lot of the history that led up to it, and much of the back-story relating to the alternate universes. I got the feeling I would have gotten more out of it if I'd already been a fan than as a bit of a newbie.
Reading this almost 30 years later (next year will be its 30th anniversary) it is more than apparent that the DC universe needed a reboot badly, and this was just the thing to do it.
The first real "event" comic series, some of the individual issues collected within are stronger than others, but by the end it grows tiresome especially with so many characters fighting for space on already over-crowded pages.
It did make for better comics that followed, and for better or for worse, it created the nearly annual "comics crossover events" that shake things up from time to time when continuities get messy.
If Goodreads allowed for .5 stars, this would probably get a 3.5 from me, but not strong enough for me to give it a 4.
The first real "event" comic series, some of the individual issues collected within are stronger than others, but by the end it grows tiresome especially with so many characters fighting for space on already over-crowded pages.
It did make for better comics that followed, and for better or for worse, it created the nearly annual "comics crossover events" that shake things up from time to time when continuities get messy.
If Goodreads allowed for .5 stars, this would probably get a 3.5 from me, but not strong enough for me to give it a 4.
adventurous
dark
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
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 won't help anyone who hasn't heard of Dr. Light, Psycho Pirate, Wildcat or Blue Devil before. Even though the characters are constantly yelling "explanations," nothing is actually explained. Just vauge actions with vague intentions. The characters point at something that looks evil (or sometimes literally nothing at all), yell something about something then fire some magic-science lasers. Evetually the main villian is destroyed (three or four times) and the story abruptly ends (as a character continues to yell throughout his final few panels).
Crisis on Infinite Earths fails on every level. Its story is confusing and drawn out and the characters are boring or underutilized. Even its attempt to streamline the DC universe/multiverse didn't catch on, as some writers ignored the post-crisis "one Earth" policy, choosing to write stories outside the official continuity, and DC evetually brought back the multiple universes in Infite Crisis (and again and again in Identity Crisis, Final Crisis and the ongoing 52).
Crisis on Infinite Earths fails on every level. Its story is confusing and drawn out and the characters are boring or underutilized. Even its attempt to streamline the DC universe/multiverse didn't catch on, as some writers ignored the post-crisis "one Earth" policy, choosing to write stories outside the official continuity, and DC evetually brought back the multiple universes in Infite Crisis (and again and again in Identity Crisis, Final Crisis and the ongoing 52).