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This is a companion volume to Infinite Crisis, though it seems a bit outside of everything. There isn't much point to the story, which is decent.
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Having picked up many graphic novels over the years I come to look forward to the collection of stories that tie together a year or thread of a long running story. Lately it seems that for the publishers these novels are just becoming an excuse for lumping a single hero, updates, or to fill in the holes from another story line.
Sadly this is the case of the Superman: Infinite Crisis. Disjointed and meant to help the reader understand what was going on at the same time of the Infinite Crisis (IC)series you would have to have read and reference back to the IC book at different points to make sense of it all. Having read the Green Lantern book it did a much better job of catching up than Superman.
It makes you wonder why they didn't just go and pick up all the treads and put it into one or two volumes instead.
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Segments from Infinite Crisis Secret Files & Origins, Infinite Crisis # 5, Superman # 226, Action Comics # 836 and Adventures of Superman # 649 form the viewpoint of both Supermen -- "ours" and the aging one from Earth-2 -- about the Infinite Crisis. A unique way to share with the Men of Steel and their relatives the disintegration of the one arid, single-Earth universe, along with the grandiose attempt to bring back to life a Universe That Was. Love, glory, misery & conflict in a nostalgic examination of the Superman myth. Also, in my point of view, one of the best comics about post-9/11 reality. For Superman fans; best enjoyed after reading the complete "Infinite Crisis" saga and related matters. More than the four official Countdowns to I.C., this is to me the the item to collect, along with the special Countdown which featured the Blue Beetle and Golden Boost. All in all, a poignant way to remember us that, twenty-plus years after the original Crisis (or Crime), the Multiverse is still THE narrative device around which the whole DC reality spins.
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The comics collected in this Superman: Infinite Crisis TPB attempt to focus on the original, Earth-2 Superman and his dying wife Lois Lane during the cataclysmic main events of Geoff Johns' universe shattering Infinite Crisis. What we get here is an incredible roster of talent in terms of both writers (Jeph Loeb, Joe Kelly, and original Crisis on Infinite Earths mastermind Marv Wolfman) and artists (Ed Benes, Tim Sale, and the great Phil Jimenez who lent his pencils to Infinite Crisis), who all do nothing more than conjure up one big mess. Due to the varying creative minds, this TPB feels so uneven and incomprehensible that newbies to the event will be mind boggled, and even some veteran fans may be as well. The overall story adds absolutely nothing to Infinite Crisis, not to mention that no one's interpretation of the original Earth-2 Superman is as heart felt as Johns'. Possibly worth a look for die hard collectors needing every Infinite Crisis tie-in TPB, but for the rest, this is best left on the shelf.
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This book is part of DC's big Infinite Crisis series of books. Off all of them, this is the weakest ones. The stories are disjointed and some are merely reprints of parts of the the Infinite Crisis graphic novel. Buy it only if you want to have the total collection of Infinite Crisis but not by itself. It isn't worth it.
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