Infinite Crisis Omnibus

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When two Spirits of Vengeance get together, with Eclipso controlling Spectre, there's all sorts of opportunity for metaphysical wonder. However, he also does a great job of repeating the staccato style of the original Crisis' epic storytelling. There was alot of depth to alot of these stories, and it really put the Trinity through the ringer, and made them have to come to terms with some of their darkest moments and decisions, and alot of previous stories and decisions are quite masterfully weaved into this crisis. Crisis of Conscience places Hawkman in the JLA moonbase while we just left him 2 pages before on Rann, that can be confusing. However, much like most events, the story does suffer from 2 main things: 1) Too big of a cast, due to the huge number of companion tales resulting in a loss of momentum of main story to tell these pointless tales and 2) Lack of a true consequence (but most comic are like this.

Of all the Infinite Crisis series, Villains United has the best through-line back to Identity Crisis. What better way to begin a sequel to Crisis on Infinite Earths than with a big one-shot that highlights Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, two of the core members of the JLI, one of the most memorable and unique comics to come out of the original Crisis? Of course one can't speak of Countdown without addressing the elephant in the room: the fan favorite character killed within and the other fan favorite character who was darkened irrevocably.The villains were darker and as a result so were the heroes, but they were not far off from each other. I haven't read Crisis on Infinite Earth, but I thought that enough background and explanations were given not to be too lost in the main event. I mean, just as you can expect with any DC crisis event, a lot of action, fast paced shit going on, it all seems like doom and gloom however, in the end…everyone walks away unscathed. Fortunately, the writing is sharp and interesting enough that it's an intriguing setup, and particularly today when you can read straight on to the rest of the story, you don't mind it's incomplete nature. I hate companion books as their rarely truly offer anything other than added spice and background to the tale.

Some suggestions that I already have on my list is the Loeb run of Batman/Superman and the Day of Judgement mini-series. Overall, as with any comic event "Infinite Crisis" is a mess, but it's a mess that comes together and stays true to some very important and very real themes. My main review on Infinite Crisis covers that portion well enough but the build up deserves some praise too.This was better than Crisis of infinite earths in my opinion but, only because Johns took the lead in writing. For any who may not know, Infinite Crisis was the cumulation of a couple of years of DC stories, all brought to a head. That problem begins with the book's intro, which info-dumps a pile of confusing information from Adam Strange: Planet Heist. If you can get your hands on this backache inducing whopper of an omnibus, I think this is the best way to read this.