Infinite Crisis Omnibus (New Edition)

Infinite Crisis was the 10th anniversary "tip of the hat" to Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC's original attempt to clean up their story continuity with both critics and fans. It's ironic that years after all the work they did to eliminate multiple earths, the concept reappeared over and over in different flavors such that the concept is far more confusing today than it was back then.Infinite Crisis is really a number of different storylines woven together. They could be read separately with a great deal of enjoyment. But woven together. it's a wild ride that incorporates nearly all of the DC Universe.Center to the entire story is a separate piece, Identity Crisis and the Justice League storyline it is based on. That itself is a masterwork by Brad Meltzer and is a must pre-read for this tome. In short, villains learn the Justice League's secret identities. Zatanna mindwipes the villains' memories, making them forget the information. But it won't be the last time. In Meltzer's followup, it's revealed that Zatanna's whent a little further in her mindwipe of Dr. Light after a truly villanous episode of his, with the Justice League split on it's morality. And when Batman wanders into the scene, they do a little job on him too.It all comes to a head as Batman discovers what was done to him. Feeding his paranoia on motives that are anyone's but his own, he creates a system to protect Earth from the heroes...and it gets hijacked and altered. And that is where I have to stop to avoid any spoilers.This massive volume puts all of the different pieces of the story in convenient reading order. It's a great way to get the feeling of the whole story without yanking out multiple books or individual comics from your collection. The pages are a very decent weight and printing quality is good. I've heard negative things about DC's binding on their omnibuses (glued instead of sewn) so I handle it with extra care. It a heavy book, as many of these omnibus type books are. This isn't for laptop reading: a sturdy table top is really required.I recommend this highly to DC fans of the past and present. Good drama, and great storytelling.

I really love omnibus volumes because entire story lines are collected into one volume (or multiple volumes). As is the case with Infinite Crisis Omnibus, several years of stories across multiple DC tiles are collected in one giant volume with over 1400 pages of goodness. Collected here is Day of Vengeance 1 - 6, Rann-Thanagar War 1 - 6, The OMAC Project 1 - 6, Infinite Crisis 1 - 6 and all the tie ins. It is a really good deal to get all the connected stories in one volume. It is fun to read as it is a sequel to the 1984 Crisis on Infinite Earths. In addition, the issues collected here are presented in reading order which made the whole reading experience that much more enjoyable. That's all good.However, there are several drawbacks which if it were included could have made this a great volume. First is the Brad Meltzer limited series Identity Crisis was omitted. This is a crucial story leading into the events of Infinite Crisis. Even the the stories included referenced the events in Identity Crisis. My recommendation is to read Identity Crisis first before reading this omnibus. Second is that this volume did not include a table of contents which made it difficult to figure out which part came from original published comic. Lastly, covers of the original comics were not included. Part of the joys of comic books is the cover and even for reprints, many fans like to see original covers.All in all, still a fun read but DC could have made it better.

I missed the issues and minis leading up to the actual event, it's nice to experience them. they are all well written and would've been deserving of their own TPB on my shelf, but now they get to be apart of the re-reads of Infinite Crisis, and exciting action blockbuster that really pays off long term fans with twists and turns and connections to even the least expected characters.

Awesome story, beautiful cover, the dust jacket is just a little faded at the bottom.But what most got me sad was the binding that doesn’t goes up when the book is open.Apart from that, it is a worth one

Greate comic novel, they should make a movie

Man such a good story. Everything you need is write here. Worth the cash. A bit heavy. Worth the cash If you want a great DC story

Don't know a lot about this comic. Came in good shape. A good read for fans. Good story that all the hero's are in it. buy it worth it.

The story is great and the new edition has the same material as the 1st printing but it has great cover art and better binding. Great collection at a great price.

Woah, you had better have strong arms. This is a mammoth tome. Great artwork, good story, an excellent buy.

Primeiro de tudo, vale falar que esse encadernado é um trambolho. São mais de 1400 páginas e é ótimo pra autodefesa e também para malhar os bíceps e tríceps. Dito isto, a edição é maravilhosa. Reúne simplesmente TUDO (ou quase tudo) da preparação para a Crise Infinita até chegar na saga em si.Na época em questão, a DC tinha um planejamento rigoroso e seguia ele à risca, com os roteiristas trabalhando em sinergia. E você percebe isso. Tudo foi montado e trabalhado para chegar na edição #1 de Crise Infinita. E foi um longo caminho. Alguns gibis nem são tão legais assim, mas vendo no contexto geral da coisa, vale a pena demais.Acredito firmemente que esse foi o único período da história da DC em que eles sabiam o que estavam fazendo da vida, e é muito bonito acompanhar isso. Garanta o seu se você é um fã da DC.

As someone who did not read the original issues, I thought picking this up to catch up on my DC important back issues would be essential. While some of the story-lines are important to Geoff John's Green Lantern books and probably other DC books, I can't help but walk away feeling unsatisfied and wish I hadn't read this particular omnibus and went for specific trades instead.There are some good comics here: Anything written by Geoff John's is going to be good to great, but that's only going to be ~20% of the entire book. His contributions were all pretty great. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and many other supporting characters all get great moments. As usual, Geoff John's flow and pacing is top-notch.Some of the mini story-lines going on are interesting reads. I thought the OMAC Project and Villains United featuring the Secret Six were all great stories and well worth-reading. I was surprised that despite not knowing/caring about the characters, I became invested in them quickly, and they were all well-written.Unfortunately, there are a number of sections of stories in this book that are horrible - the worst being the Rann-Thanagar War - I'm sorry, but this is some of the most incomprehensible writing I've seen in a comic in a long time. Dialog doesn't flow very well, the pacing seems way too fast, and scenes seem to jump around way too quickly and/or cut forward without any kind of warning. The book was incredibly hard to follow, especially because I did not know or care about most of these characters, and with the scenes transitioning so quickly, I just couldn't get a mental picture of the scenes in my head. Also, a lot of the panels have small characters and just way too much stuff going on. The Rann-Thanagar War was the only part of the omnibus I actually ended up skipping to improve my enjoyment of life. It turns out, this entire story could have been removed from the crossover and I think it would have just been a superior cross-over - it was completely unnecessary and it acts as pointless padding.The other story I disliked was the Day of Vengeance. It wasn't as bad as the rann thanagar war, but again, the writing just isn't up to the same standards as the rest of the book, and its characters and plots have only a minor relevance to the overall story-line. My biggest complaint was that the writer likes to interject dialog with long monologues back and forth, and this technique is overused like crazy - and it just doesn't flow properly and reads incredibly disjointed to the point where you can forget the conversation the characters were having due to the massive context shifts the writer put you through...Overall - that's the big problem with the book - this isn't 1 giant story-line from start to finish, it's like 5 mini story-lines, and at least 2-3 of them don't really have a lot of overall importance and feel like padding to make the event bigger than it needed to be. Also, the ending was kind of a let down - nothing really big happened. There's some big ideas, but the whole thing just comes across as a letdown. The authors toy with the idea that the "perfect world" would be one without the need for superheroes - that's interesting - but we never see it play out. And in the end, the big 3 just take a vacation at the end of the book to "re-center themselves". Yay :/Honestly, even if you like Geoff Johns, I think this can be skipped unless you have some particular affinity for this crossover event. It's just not very good as a whole. I think you could seriously get away with buying countdown to infinite crisis, omac project, villains united and the infinite crisis trade paper backs and you'd probably walk away more satisfied than trying to drudge through a 1400 page omnibus.

Después de la primera Crisis, allá por el año de 1985, se cocinaba 20 años después una "secuela espiritual", una crisis que regresaba a la continuidad muchos elementos que no debieron desaparecer o cambiar drásticamente, incluso personajes que estaban desaparecidos o en el limbo.De esta manera él que se volvería el arquitecto del Universo DC en los años venideros Geoff Johns junto a una pléyade de escritores como Rucka, Winick, Gibbons, Bill Willingham por mencionar algunos, construyeron una historia llena de épica, traiciones, regresos, muertes como no podían faltar en cada Crisis.La Trinidad destrozada desde adentro, tendrán que cerrar filas para enfrentarse al nuevo mal, a varios heroes que sacrificaron mucho en su antigua realidad y que ven con tristeza que su sacrificio en la Crisis original fue en vano.En el apartado gráfico encontramos grandes nombres como Phil Jimenez (dibujando la serie madre) junto al maestro Perez, Ordway, Reis, Saiz, Morales, Eaglesham, Benes, etc.Sin duda una digna secuela de la Crisis original, grandes batallas, buenas historias alrededor de la serie principal, con consecuencia que se extendieron por todo el Universo DC en los años venideros pero sobre todo el regreso de un elemento que insisto, no debió de desaparecer allá por el año del '86 y que es la esencia del Universo DC... el Multiverso.Una gran edición, armada cronológicamente a los hechos como van ocurriendo, reimpresa nuevamente, gran Omnibus.Los cielos se tornan rojos nuevamente.

Quando será que o mercado editorial brasileiro vai atingir essa perfeição?