Infinite Crisis Omnibus

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Since it’s comic books, of course these seemingly unrelated things are all part of the plot of our bad guys for yet another nefarious purpose. I am a character loyalist, but of course I want to be prepared to understand the full story (as best I can) that will have maximum impact. Of all the Infinite Crisis series, Villains United has the best through-line back to Identity Crisis. I also don't fully believe the motivations or beliefs of Superboy Prime, Alexander Luthor, or E2 Superman. The villains were darker and as a result so were the heroes, but they were not far off from each other.

I read the event before with Absolute Infinite Crisis ( review here) and loved it, but rereading the entire event with all of the supplemental lead-up, is a completionist's wet-dream. However, he also does a great job of repeating the staccato style of the original Crisis' epic storytelling.I'm excited about not reading it which ultimately is too bad as I was terribly excited sbout starting it last month. It all culminates in what is arguably the best DC Crisis, and one of the best examples of how to do a huge superhero crossover. but I have the DC Infinite Ultra and want to check out some other series over the weekend while I take a break before starting Infinite Crisis.

This omnibus brings together those lead up stories and along with the series that wrapped it all up. It collects not only Infinite Crisis but the all the content leading up to it for the few preceding years. But if you can't find it, or dont like omnibus because of their size, I'd really recommend reading Countdown to Final Crisis, The Omac Project, Sacrifice, and Crisis of Conscience, to get the most of it. Recommended if you have a good general familiarity with the DCU and are looking for a really big epic. Rann-Thanagar War was a trudge, and almost had me drop it to a 4, but since the vast majority was great, I’m letting it slide.But there's a good chance you'd enjoy the main event even whithout these; it'll just be more confusing. It must be pretty frustrating for more casual readers to make heads or tail of Infinite Crisis itself, though, without all these tie-ins, and I can see why some people might be turned off it without those supporting reads. The Omnibus also weaves the mini-series finales into the Infinite Crisis series itself (and they come across as coherent, complete parts of the story, albeit not up to the writing of the main storyline.

Im sure there are a quite a few good series that may or not be "required" reading, but I want to hear what you think about your favorite reads or that came out before Infinite Crisis.I wish E2 Superman figured out what a perfect world actually means for the concept or idea of Superman on his own. This Crisis addresses those questions in a way that doesn't get in the way of a pretty good story, or feel too heavy handed. 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. While I did enjoy most of the book, I did find the Villains United story and even parts of the Rann-Thanagar War boring and a bit unnecessary. This meta-commentary seems to argue that, despite claims to the contrary by the comics fan-base, if those characters had not changed changed and kept up with the times, comics wouldn't survive as long as they did.