Rating:  -
This is kind-of an expanded or offshoot story from the bigger story found in the graphic novel "INFINITE CRISIS". It focuses on the aging original Superman and Lois Lane, who is dying. The artwork is nice, but... I found it rather depressing, uninteresting, unnecessary, and unless you're an exclusive fan of Golden Age DC characters, skip this and instead invest in the complete story - buy INFINITE CRISIS!
Rating:  -
Think back to the end of DC's 1985 series Crisis on Infinite Earths: Alexander Luthor led the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane, and the Earth-Prime Superboy, to a heavenly dimension in order to escape the effects of the Crisis. There, these characters would supposedly live out their days in happiness. Well, now we find that since COIE, heaven isn't exactly what they thought it'd be, and they've watched helplessly as events such as the death of Superman and the coming of Parallax, have made the DC Universe a darker place. So Earth-2 Superman decides to do something about it, bringing about... the Infinite Crisis.
I guess I'm at a disadvantage since I don't collect monthly comics but instead wait for the trade collections. It could be that if I would have read each monthly tie-in to DC's Infinite Crisis, I'd have a better understanding of what's happening in SUPERMAN: INFINITE CRISIS. Regardless, that really shouldn't be an issue. In the case where it's necessary to throw together stories from several different titles, DC usually helps the reader somewhat by providing text pages that explain "the story so far", and even what may be happening inbetween. This was not one of those cases. The stories are disjointed, the art highly inconsistent from one story to the next, and whole pages of story seem to be missing. Honestly, I'm fairly familiar with DCU history and the developments in Infinite Crisis, and I had a really difficult time with this book; however, it does bring about one very interesting development, giving an explanation for exactly WHY the DC Universe has become such a dark place over the past 20 years. So, well-played on that front - I just wish that there were more story here to explain what is going on. It seems like a random collection of stories, as if these were the fragments that didn't fit into any of the other numerous trades DC has planned around Infinite Crisis.
This book collects SUPERMAN #226, ACTION COMICS #836, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #649, and stories from INFINITE CRISIS SECRET FILES 2006. Writers include Joe Kelly, Marv Wolfman and Jeph Loeb; with art by Ed Benes, Lee Bermejo, Howard Chaykin, Ian Churchill, Karl Kerschl, Phil Jimenez, Dan Jurgens, Ed McGuinness, Jerry Ordway, Tim Sale, and others. Great roster of talent, but overall not a very reader-friendly collection.
Rating:  -
UPDATE ON 12/07: There are now sufficient reviews so that this warning is no longer necessary (and Amazon has apparently cleaned the reviews up as well). In hindsight, probably more of a 3-star title: it does repeat the storyline from other books and is a bit confused at times. Still, a solid story for Superman fans.
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They refer to "Day of Doom" (published in 2003), not "Superman: Infinite Crisis". While I have not read the latter yet (just published at the time of this review), I was exposed to some of it and it is actually pretty good. Apparently this was some sort of glitch on Amazon's review system -- we'll have to wait for other reviews to get a better understanding of how good this work really is.
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