This is a new article I will be writing weekly. What do you do once you've read your weekly books? You catch up on your back issues. So every week I will advise something for you to read and discuss. Items that are necessity to continuity, dire importance, and downright damned fun (if nothing but the last). So without further ado we are going to start with:
How many you say? More than a million? More than a trillion? More than you can imagine, or anyone can for that matter. Though only enough earths for the double digits have been published since before the mini series event began in 85, they will all be smashed into one solitary earth. Prior to this event, many newcomers (and DCs editors) believed that the convuluted history and cosmology of the DC Universe was hard to follow let alone jump into amidst the madness. So they devised the idea to take all the characters they felt had little meaning, importance, or fan base and place them solely in the memories of long time fans.
Its quite an epic mini series though it may have not aged very well. Its very silver age (with unnecessary narration at times and all). But if you put yourself in this time and age of comics and appreciate its undertaking you'll find lots of fun. Particularly if you enjoy enormous cosmic undertakings featuring limitless power beings. While it may not be the greatest for beginning readers of DC (in fact it may make their brain explode into tiny panelled fragments while they leak narration from ear to ear) it is fairly essential to read after yoy begin to understand the history, the changes in continuity, and the cosmology of DC (in fact it might explain quite a few questions you had about early 90s/late 80s back issues). As I said its not without its flaws and no linewide reboot will ever be perfect past the reboot (so many continuity errors and I believe the current DC reboot is another good example of this). But its fun and important and is the grandaddy of all continuity changing events. Say goodbye to the multiverse for a couple decades.
Pros:
-Character Diversity (you will see 99% ,of DCs pre-crisis characters in this)
-The most powerful beings and characters ever compiled
-The pages reek of ” epicness”
-The original miniseries DC event
-First Appearance of the recurring Anti Monitor
-Psycho Pirate is a major player
Cons:
-Unnecessary narration
-Say goodbye to your favorite obscure character for a few years (even the popular Barry Allen)
-Slightly dated
-Psycho Pirate is a major player
Overall: 8/10
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Writer: Marv Wolfman
Artist: George Perez
How many you say? More than a million? More than a trillion? More than you can imagine, or anyone can for that matter. Though only enough earths for the double digits have been published since before the mini series event began in 85, they will all be smashed into one solitary earth. Prior to this event, many newcomers (and DCs editors) believed that the convuluted history and cosmology of the DC Universe was hard to follow let alone jump into amidst the madness. So they devised the idea to take all the characters they felt had little meaning, importance, or fan base and place them solely in the memories of long time fans.
Its quite an epic mini series though it may have not aged very well. Its very silver age (with unnecessary narration at times and all). But if you put yourself in this time and age of comics and appreciate its undertaking you'll find lots of fun. Particularly if you enjoy enormous cosmic undertakings featuring limitless power beings. While it may not be the greatest for beginning readers of DC (in fact it may make their brain explode into tiny panelled fragments while they leak narration from ear to ear) it is fairly essential to read after yoy begin to understand the history, the changes in continuity, and the cosmology of DC (in fact it might explain quite a few questions you had about early 90s/late 80s back issues). As I said its not without its flaws and no linewide reboot will ever be perfect past the reboot (so many continuity errors and I believe the current DC reboot is another good example of this). But its fun and important and is the grandaddy of all continuity changing events. Say goodbye to the multiverse for a couple decades.
Pros:
-Character Diversity (you will see 99% ,of DCs pre-crisis characters in this)
-The most powerful beings and characters ever compiled
-The pages reek of ” epicness”
-The original miniseries DC event
-First Appearance of the recurring Anti Monitor
-Psycho Pirate is a major player
Cons:
-Unnecessary narration
-Say goodbye to your favorite obscure character for a few years (even the popular Barry Allen)
-Slightly dated
-Psycho Pirate is a major player
Overall: 8/10
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