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IC, You C, We All C
Apr 20Pencil versions of the covers for Infinite Crisis #7 have hit ye olde intrarwebs.
I’m kinda trying to wait to judge the whole of this nonsense until it’s all out and done. I’m also untangling any true critical reaction from the adolescent fanboy glee of it all. Four miniseries! Every hero and villain ever! THE DC UNIVERSE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME!!!
But sometimes I think I like the IDEA of Infinite Crisis more than the execution. It’s certainly ambitious, and there have without a doubt been some drop-dead cool moments throughout.
At the same time, whole chunks of it–the Rann-Thanagar War miniseries, parts of Infinite Crisis itself–have felt unessential and/or crappy. I guess that’s how life works; everything can’t be guns and roses.
You’d think, though, that with years to plan and execute this MAJOR EVENT, their shit would be so tight that each issue would bounce when dropped on the floor. Instead, we get rotating pencilers, scenes that have occasionally felt shoehorned into an otherwise coherent story, minor plot threads that will probably dangle forever (how DID Superboy-Prime build a goddamned set of Anti-Monitor armor on an ABANDONED PLANET?!), and thus, the occasional sense that we’ve been had, as we always are, by shiny covers and that cold, sweaty completist vibe that has defined the industry for decades.
WikiWikiWhack: Fanboy, Anti-Monitor
