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 - This Ain't No Civil WarI am only an occasional DC Comics reader. To be honest, I am a little out of touch with the DC Universe, apart from Batman, so Infinite Crisis is probably not the best place to start. In reading this, one does need to connect the dots with previous tie-ins, but it's not that confusing. However, as an epic, it's underwhelming. It's not exactly as coherent as that other crisis in the Marvel world - Civil War; House of M, etc. Over the years, DC characters have not changed as much as they should have. They still feel for the most part, glossy despite the carnage. Even though Wonder Woman is a killer; Superboy Prime is a killer...well, this still doesn't turn out to be one of the darkest storylines I've read. But it should well be. It ends more cerebral than character led unfortunately. Too many heroes, villains. Most showing up for effect rather than real story. As a result, Infinite Crisis never quite hits the mark or "oomph" as we call it. Having characters pop up for a few panels at a time underscores the complexity of this project, but also doesn't give the reader much to hold on to. So, should I read this backwards, and will I get any satisfaction from tracking the crisis? I somehow doubt it but anyone reading this can comment and advice me. Cheers Rating:  - Discombobulation CrisisI've been getting into comics and graphics novels lately. And I was a big fan of the Justice League TV series. I had heard somewhere that Infinite Crisis was an epic DC Universe story that shouldn't be missed, so I was compelled to give it a go. Now that I think about it, most of the hype that heard was from DC Universe fans that had been (closely) following the events in DC releases in the years prior to Infinite Crisis. And perhaps the hype from DC fans was well-founded for this apparently long awaited telling of DC Universes "Darkest Day" by comic book vet Geoff Johns. But for someone stepping into the DC Universe for the first time, I believe that I stepped in the middle of something that I might have been better off starting at the beginning of. Hence, I think what this title really needed was a subtitle like "DC Universe Volume 3", or at least some indication that I wasn't starting at the beginning. There were a lot of stories in Infinite Crisis going on simultaneously, and they all seemed to be continuations of previous stories told in other collections. Now that's not a bad thing when it's clear that it's not necessary to have read any previous collections to "get" what's going on. But I found myself confused and overwhelmed with all the different Universes and alternate Universes clashing together with their different variations of characters...sometimes even 2 or 3 versions of the same character. Perhaps it was due to all of the "stuff" going on at once in Infinite Crisis, but I'd be surprised if even the DC Universe veteran fan didn't find the story flow a little discombobulated. The story jumps all over the place and leaves a lot to the readers imagination to fill in some big plot holes; I also found myself trying to fix continuity issues throughout various stages of the story. So what can I say? I didn't like it. The art was terrific. But, man, my head was spinning from trying to put this thing together without first reading all of the lead in stories. You'd have to be Superman to put it all together. What's that you say? Which Superman? You know...the one from Earth, or was it Earth 1, or Earth 2 or 3...or Earth X....ahhhh forget it! Rating:  - very good.....I was a little confused with the story, but it was what happened in the book and with the characters I was familiar with that touched me especially with the death of Conner Kent aka this worlds superboy......before reading this book most info I got about the death of superboy was through wikipedia but when I actually read it and seen it for my own eyes I really did get emotional over Conners death.....it really was sad with this charater with still alot of potential, popularity and interest in him......all in all , a very good book.. Rating:  - Pretty Good for a Blockbuster MovieI tried desperately to forge my way through the Original Crisis on Infinite Earths and I just couldn't do it. It has that old silioquy style comic vibe going on where characters talk to themselves and basically tell the plot through dialog. I just couldn't get into it. So I was a little suspicious of this sequel to begin with. Thankfully, it's more modern and appealing, if not over the top in some aspects, like the gratuitous violence and killing off of random characters. I never finished the original, but in this one Super Boy Prime seems to go really over the edge crazy for no apparent reason. I'll admit his spree of violence is pretty entertaining, like the future Black Adam in 52, he puts his powers to their full use. Overall, it was good, but I can't say it was great. I don't mean that in a durogatory way at all. I was more impressed by Green Lantern: Rebirth by Johns. If you like that, and you like the cinematic, world breaking, serious Blockbuster action movie style of comics then you will like this. And for this price, it's completely worth a purchase and read through. Rating: - A Better Crisis Than the OriginalI found this to be much more enjoyable than the original Crisis. The story was muddled, the dialog was bad, and at times it just didn't make any logical sense. But this for me was enjoyable through out. Infinite Earths tried to cram every character they could into the story often slowing down the narrative and confusing things. Where in Infinity Crisis it felt like they were able to work in a lot of characters, but I never felt it was getting away from the plot. I also felt like there was more tension. Though the threat was just as credible in Infinite Earths if not more so. It never felt like it was as big of a threat. There were some good battles. I like the art work as well. I think it's something a lot of comic book fans would enjoy, but I guess it's not everyone's cup of tea.
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