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Crisis On Infinite Earths 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Marv Wolfman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Crisis on Infinite Earths is the ultimate big comic book crossover book. It brings together the entire history of the DC Universe in the same 12 issue Maxi-series. The story is massive but it's not impenetrable. The more you know of the DC Universe as it existed pre-Crisis, the easier the story was to follow.

The art by George Perez is epic and breathtaking perfectly suited to the task of this major event. While, there are some pages that just seem full of moving from one character to another, it handles it's major cast including the Flash, Superman, and Supergirl, as well as the Harbinger, Monitor, and others very well. There are several pages that actually brought tears to my eyes.

The book manages to chart a new course for the DC Universe while being respectful to what's come before. The book was planned out over the course of several years, which allowed it to have a good flow and an understanding of DC Continuity. The story is creative and epic, as well as written with a lot of love and care.

I held off for a long time for reading this volume because the worst thing to come out of Crisis and that is the slew of gigantic crossover events. Yet, reading the book, I see that what has made comic books that tried to imitate Crisis so often be disappointing is that they're, in many ways, the opposite of Crisis: disrespectful to the past and to the characters being written about, unoriginal, boring, and with poor art work. To top it all off, most serve to actually make continuity more convoluted rather than less.

Crisis on Infinite Earth works as a classic and probably the biggest comic book story to be a true classic. It's the one giant companywide crossover that actually worked even while the imitators failed miserably. This book is a must-read for any serious Superhero fan.



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