Book Review

Infinite Crisis
Greg Cox

Back in the 80's, DC comics had this thing called "Crisis on Infinite Earths", where they tried to resolve the fact that they had gotten lost with all the alternate realities in their comics. They ended up having one Earth at the end, and kind of melded the characters they wanted to keep into the one place.

A couple of years ago, they revisited the story, I think mostly to try to boost comic book sales. (Why else would they do it?) Something called Infinite Crisis was the result. This book is a serialization of those stories. I didn't actually read the associated comics with this thing, sort of just followed the outline of the thing on the internet a bit.

The author does a good job of telling the story of the thing without having the associated pictures from the comics. Now I really know what happened with Infinite Crisis. It kept me occupied through both plane flights yesterday, I finded the book just after landing in Buffalo.

Lots of characters were killed off, DC afterwards jumped everything forward a year. Basically, the multiple Earths are brought back, and eventually the single reality and single Earth is restored again.

I thought the book was interesting to read, I actually prefer books like this to read, rather than comics themselves, I think, when the author does a really good job with descriptions and just writing the story out. It lets you picture what is happening a little better in your head than just looking at the comic itself. Plus you get the entire story all packaged up in one book. They did an audiobook dramatization of the book, it sounds like with a full cast, 13 hours long. That might be interesting to listen to.

Last year they did something called "Final Crisis", I don't really know what happened, maybe this guy will write a book...