Crisis on Infinite Crises
DC. Please. Stop.
Infinite Crisis was one of the big reasons I got back into regularly buying comics. I had been purchasing them on and off, but when I started to hear rumblings that DC was building up a new Crisis, slowly weaving a story through over two years of their books, I started to get intrigued. Then Countdown to Infinite Crisis hit, and I was hooked.
Then I read Infinite Crisis.
Initially, I was in geek heaven. The story was great, the art was great, the shocker at the end of the first issue blew my socks off. It kind of went down-hill from there.
Where Infinite Crisis #1 was my re-introduction to Geek Heaven, Infinite Crisis #7 was my introduction to the realities of creating an entertainment product. There were some great moments, but ultimately it smacked of a half-finished product hampered by editorial intrusion.
To deal with that fan reaction, DC quickly stated that Infinite Crisis wasn't what they were building towards, really. There's something else. Something bigger. Something you can only fully appreciate if you purchase all of 52, all of Countdown, and every book in the DC Universe for the next three years.
This week, the always reliable (this is non-sarcasm, he is always reliable) Rich Johnston revealed what Countdown is building towards:
FINAL CRISIS
This isn't a huge surprise... There was a mention in this past week's JLA about "Time being weird right after the Middle Crisis." But still. Really? Final Crisis?
I mean, I'll still buy it.
- Alex
I will buy 52 issues of anything CD puts out if there is even a chance there DC will reveal a Universe that exists as if the Crisis never happened. Dont' get me wrong: Crisis was a great story, but the aftermath has been pretty much twenty years of covering up mistakes.