Infinite Crisis! BEWARE may contain SPOILERS!!!

I was hoping for something bold too, Art. They play up the Multiverse and you know it's Crisis, so when it's a fake-out it becomes difficult not to be disappointed. When you're hoping for a dramatic shift in the DC Universe, and all you get is Lesbian Batwoman, it's a let down. I've actually been buying less books than before.

I read an article somewhere that summarized and talked about Crisis some more and it got me to thinking about the event again. Part of the big problem with the story were the villains I believe. In the first Crisis you have the Anti-Monitor, living embodiment of the Antimatter Universe and evil evil evil! This time we got the afro-less Alexander Luthor and lame ass Superboy Prime. Sure SP was crazy and dangerous, but he was also a bit of a putz. And the fact that Golden Age Superman, the very first superhero(!), was beaten to death by this whiny, ex-superhero nobody was just a travesty. They should have let him die in the first Crisis beating down the Anti-Monitor. THAT would have been a noble death. This? This was just sad.

It's not that I'm so hot after having a Multiverse. I'm telling you, the basic premise never left so it's no big deal. But the symbolism would have been cool to have restored. And with DC baiting the audience with it, I started to think that it could be a really cool and bold opportunity for DC to start a new universe and have the old. Sorta like Marvel 616 and the Ultimate universe. But now we've got a lot of new faces in old masks and with comic prices higher than ever, I just don't feel like getting to know the new guys. I see a few things that look interesting. The revamped Doom Patrol looks rockin'! But a lot of the rest I'm passing on I think.

I only bought the Infinite Crisis series itself and none of the tie-ins and I followed it okay. But I have the Internet and could pick up all the pieces pretty easily, any kid that wandered into a comic shop and picked up an issue probably would have had a brain explosion sorting it out. It was a very insular and self-referencing event and part of why it didn't do stronger sales than it could have (like CIVIL WAR seems to be doing).

I don't really care if Batwoman is straight or not and I think the continuity revisions actually put the DCU back a little closer to how it was Pre-Crisis. You have the Wildstorm Earth and the Crime Syndicate Earth still out there plus all the other pocket dimensions, parallel realities, etc. from over the years and all the storytelling devices that go along with the Multiverse, it's just not officially called that. No big deal, but it would have been nice to see GA Superman fly off at the end to something resembling his world never to be seen again, and not taken out like a punk by the emotionally retarded Superboy Prime. And I really would rather they leave SP in his prison instead of have him run rampant again in an another excuse to kill off characters. "You're ruining me!" Yes, yes they did.

I think they could have a place and way to please everyone and they just went back to the same old same old. I have noticed they do string things out over too many books and too many series. Identity Crisis and Infinate Crisis both lost impact because they stretched the story out over to many comics. I finished Identity Crisis and just sat thinking of all the major points they left up in the air. Crisis of Infinate Earth can be picked up and read today. YOu can easily understand what is going on and it concludes with a strong ending. THis didn't leave me feeling like recieved an resolution in tghe story.

GA Superman shouild have put the little boy over his knee and broke out a big old keg of butt kick (to keep it rated G).