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A review by smohundro
Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman
2.0
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.