Comments on: Crisis On Infinite Earths #12 – The Battle-Around-The-World Sequence

By: Martin Wisse

Martin Wisse — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:07:51 +0000

This whole issue was so awesome that it even worked when I first read it in French, not a language I speak fluently.

Also awesome the heroes v. villains issue earlier in the series, again with great Perez storytelling through page composition, panel layout and positioning, E.g. showing Green Arrow and Black Canary fighting Punch and Jewelee in one panel.

Also great: the way in which Perez can reconcile (semi-)realistic and cartoony drawing styles for the zillions of characters involved in the Crisis, where e.g. Captain Marvel is still recognisable the classic cartoony Marvel, but doesn’t look ridiculous next to e.g. Batman, nor has these style differences in conflict.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:51:40 +0000

But lets face it, Perez gets handed a penalty for Penguin vs Firestorm fight, as noted by Scipio

http://absorbascon.blogspot.com/2005/10/eight-fabulous-moments-in-coie.html

By: Pat!

Pat! — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:16:36 +0000

loved this post man
man, i still remember the first time i read the Crisis series

shit blew my mind

By: urbanguy

urbanguy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:36:09 +0000

It’s shit like this is why I love this blog.

kudos.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:30:10 +0000

Things were still “settling in” at the end of Crisis, so certain anachronistic characters (like Earth-2 Robin) still existed even though there was no place for them in history. IIRC, Roy Thomas explained this away in “All-Star Squadron” as some powerful entity or other holding back the changes to history through sheer force of will, knowing that it would result in the erasure of some of her friends from the timeline.

(Pity poor Roy Thomas, by the way. He’d just gotten up to issue 50 of “All-Star Squadron”, his dream title that showcased and spotlighted all those classic Golden Agers, only to be told, “Um, hey, all of your continuity is being junked. Oh, and you have to cross over with the series that’s junking it.”)

I love this piece, MGK. I think that one of the reasons “Crisis” works so much better than “Infinite Crisis” and “Final Crisis” was that Wolfman and Perez came from an era before ‘decompression’. They had to learn how to tell stories economically, making the most use out of each page and each panel, and that comes out here. When they tell a story that’s twelve issues long, it freaking deserves every single issue of it.

By: Jason Barnett

Jason Barnett — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:28:30 +0000

The merged Earths didn’t merge individuals. I think the merged Earth was basically Earth-1 stretched slightly to allow places that only existed in one reality such as Keystone City to also be there.

People like the Earth-2 Robin found out the didn’t exist officially and never had.

By: Sean D. Martin

Sean D. Martin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:14:57 +0000

The page turn reveal. Gods, I miss that.

I remember turning a page in one an Issue of Animal Man to find him looking right at me saying “I SEE YOU!” Damn if I didn’t slam the book shut. It was several seconds before my mind kicked in again and told me he really couldn’t.

By: katerek

katerek — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:00:26 +0000

yup

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:53:24 +0000

I think my favorite bits of that Shadow Demon stuff is the 2 pager that has Alan Scott and Dr. Occult Locked in that Trance to cage them all with Magic and Willpower

By: coren

coren — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:01:04 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t think of that at first, but that panel has Starman (JSA, so E2) which means he’s basically a nobody. Of course, all the Earths are merged now, so wouldn’t he be both? I forget how this worked. There’s also Elongated Man punching someone in the Cyborg panel I think

By: Darren K

Darren K — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:23:33 +0000

But that’s Earth-2 Green Arrow, the one who never developed a personality (possibly the only thing that wasn’t completely stolen from Batman and given an arrow related spin). Fair dues on Aquaman, though.

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:53:27 +0000

You said Cyborg was the biggest name on that page? Bigger than Aquaman or Green Arrow? I’ve always thought of Green Arrow as one of the most important heroes at DC, but I could be biased since I only read DC regularly in the ’70s.

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By: Thok

Thok — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:14:30 +0000

Beau Smith wrote a B’wana Beast short story for the 2009 DC Holiday Special.

By: Oakenguy

Oakenguy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:58:26 +0000

Part of me love love loves these ginormous world-threatening fights…and another part of me always instinctively looks for the hero (or villain) who’s so far out of his weight class that it might as well be *me* out there in tights. This time around I’m spoiled for choices, but Godiva? “They disintegrate what they touch–I’ll hit them with my hair!” How in HELL did she survive this?