- Comic: 128 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (12 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 140120953X
- ISBN-13: 978-1401209537
- Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 0.4 x 26 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This volume reprints Infinite Crisis Secret Files & Origins 2006, Infinite Crisis #5, Superman #226, Action Comics #836 and Adventures of Superman #649. The action begins on the extra-dimensional place that the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane went to after the original Crisis, along with Alexander Luthor and Superboy-Prime. They have been watching the unified Earth that resulted from the original Crisis, and have decided that they saved the wrong world, and set out to escape. Luthor appears to have turned either evil or loony, warps Superboy, and cracks the very fabric of space-time, resulting in Superman-2 taking a trip through a cascade of alternate Earths, trying to make the world a better place. He fails. I found the story to be quite confusing. If it is just a start-up to the main event, then fair enough, but it doesn't hold up for me as a stand-alone volume, and there is no explanation as to what was going on or where to go next. I know that Superman-2 ended up in the Justice Society for a while, and that Superboy-Prime has become a recurring villain, but that's about it.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A little help here, DC?
19 Aug 2006
Format:Comic
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.
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Did the Multiverse End? No Thanks!
23 April 2007
Format:Comic
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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Not As Bad As the others make it out to be
3 Sep 2010
Format:Comic
The other people who reviewed this comic made it out to be very confusing for new readers. What they don't mention, is that the book wasn't supposed to be accesible for the new readers, and the book never said such.
In this book the shifts in reality that the Infinity Crisis had caused are shown, specifilly from the view point of two different Supermen. Both have the same morals, but have gone through different events in life. We see both Superman shifting through time in what is to them alternative universes (which really are the other Superman's Earth) and what these Supermen, one very experienced because of his battles in World War II, and the other, while experienced, had made certain enemies that he didn't really have to make. Both make decisions that the others didn't, and it radically changes their worlds. What the two don't realize however, is that these changes in history end up causing the ends of both worlds, teaching both Supermen that the other made the right choices in protecting their world.
Overall this storyline is good and also has secret files explaining the histories of KEY characters from the Infinite Crisis. So overall a very underrated storyline that really deserves a little more respect.
In this book the shifts in reality that the Infinity Crisis had caused are shown, specifilly from the view point of two different Supermen. Both have the same morals, but have gone through different events in life. We see both Superman shifting through time in what is to them alternative universes (which really are the other Superman's Earth) and what these Supermen, one very experienced because of his battles in World War II, and the other, while experienced, had made certain enemies that he didn't really have to make. Both make decisions that the others didn't, and it radically changes their worlds. What the two don't realize however, is that these changes in history end up causing the ends of both worlds, teaching both Supermen that the other made the right choices in protecting their world.
Overall this storyline is good and also has secret files explaining the histories of KEY characters from the Infinite Crisis. So overall a very underrated storyline that really deserves a little more respect.
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