A review by freelatveria
Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman

adventurous fast-paced

4.0

 

Worlds will live, Worlds will die. 

Here we have the OG of DC mega crossovers.  Let's destroy the multiverse and collapse everything into one single universe.  Sounds like a great idea....with the best of intentions...what could possibly go wrong?

Well I'm not here to judge the muck up DC would make coming out of this what would require multiple events to patch together this continuity.  I'm just here for this story, and on it's own...I really liked it.  In fact, I think I liked it more than I remember.

The art by George Perez was phenomenal.  Of course.  The story was a bit of a mess, which I don't think should be shocking considering the scope of this,  But in my opinion it started out kind of shaky, but continued to get stronger through to the end.  What really did surprise me here was some of the heart.  Especially at the end.  The deaths, the valiant last stands, the survivors.  All of it had  a lot more heart in it then I remember.  Imagine waking up in a universe where you and everyone you loved never existed.  That happens to some folks here and it is a gut punch.

So, ignoring the choices DC was going to make after this, this story was a solid mega event.  And you can see why this style of storytelling would take over the comics industry moving forward to the good and ill.