Infinite Crisis #1

Infinite Crisis #1
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Wow! Last week offered up more big things from DC Comics. The summer mini-series have all peaked leading up to this fall's biggest comic book event Infinite Crisis. With the DC Universe's heroes split due to distrust and the villians now united under the new Society formed by Lex Luthor things are going from bad to worse on Earth.

Beyond the planet Earth things aren't going much better. The galaxy has erupted in war with more and more races & planets joining the battle. And on the mystical plane The Spectre is wreaking havoc
on the DC Universe's magical set.

Basically there is total chaos in
DC Comic land. And from this chaos the company plans on creating some new order, possibly cleaning up continuity mistakes made in past "clean-up" efforts. If anyone is qualified to handle this task, Geoff Johns is the writer with the skills to do it. He smoothly brought back Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern and he's shown repeatedly in his stints on other titles that he has a firm grasp on DC Comics complex history and large stable of characters. Phil Jimenez is also an excellent choice for an artist on this mini-series. A storyline such as this requires an artist who is able to competently draw numerous characters without sacrificing art quality or other details in the panel. Jimenez is part of an elite class of artists who is capable of doing a series such as this.

I'm not going to go into the very deep background surrounding this mini series which really goes back decades. Newsarama did an excellent job of that. I will give my personal views on the details of the story. It was tough seeing the Freedom Fighters basically killed off. I've had a soft spot for this group of heroes, because they always seemed so odd to me. They were never really strong enough to hold their own title that successfully, but they were cool to have on the fringes of the DCU.

The return of the Original Superman at the end of the book was a major fanboy moment. One I didn't even predict happening. His return, even if its temporary softens the blow of so many of my favored characters being murdered in the lead up to this issue and through this issue. Now if you are asking what does he mean original Superman? Who the heck are the Freedom Fighters? I can answer those questions in the comments, for those who will actually ask the questions.

In the meantime please check out the Newsarama article on the series events, its a good read. And is one of the more clear explanations of the entire lead up. A lot clearer then I could ever do, that is for sure.

Most of my comic book reviews so far have basically been a total lovefest for DC Comics. My tastes are more varied then that and I'll touch upon other publishers titles & characters as well in upcoming reviews. It's just lately DC Comics has been the most noteworthy.