Comics: Infinite Crisis

Infinite Crisis is a new 7 part story from DC.

Apparently, it's spring cleaning. So DC started an ambitious story arc, bringing hundreds of the DC universe's characters together, and prune off a great number of them.

A society is organising all the villians together, methodically kidnapping and killing heroes.

A telepath, powered up just for the sake of this story arc (beyond the limits of the abilities he previously demonstrated in continuity), made Superman hallucinate that he is fighting bad guys when he's fighting the good guys.

Wonder Woman, was forced to kill the telepath because that was the only way to save Supe.

This act of violence destroyed WW's credibility as a hero. And triggers Batman's Brother Eye satellite to activate protocols to enforce justice. [OMG!! I can't believe that there's a wikipedia entry on Brother Eye!]

Batman's paranoia and trust issues had made him develop a satellite system to spy and keep track of all the superhuman on earth. He has always had trust issues, but this paranoia was exacerbated by the events in Identity Crisis, where he discovered that he had been mind-wiped by his own comrades in the JLA. Incidentally, Identity Crisis was a far, far better book than this one.

Brother Eye evolved into an AI, and became independent of Batman's controls. It launched attacks against several characters. Particularly WW.

Some kind of giant cosmic battle is taking place at the centre of the universe.

An aged Superman, a good Lex Luthor, Superboy Prime, a dying Lois Lane are introduced as being survivors of an alternate multiverse from Crisis of Infinite Earths. These penetrate some kind of space-time barrier to try to rally this foul and corrupted Earth, and convince the players to abandon it and recreate the other, better alternate Earth.

A few characters make their peace and unite again to face the crisis.

Superboy Prime goes nuts and kills some heroes. A couple of Flash-es grabs him and brings him to another time and place. He comes back stronger. It takes two Supermen and the sacrifice of a great number of Green Lanterns to subdue him.

Meanwhile Alexander Luthor is mixing and matching all the multiverses in a petri-dish in an attempt to create the PERFECT world.


Ever wondered how thin you can spread a plot? Well, here you go.

The heroes in DC comics' universe is just over-powered. Thus, they have to fight in these grand plot-lines. It makes the characters impossible to identify with, after a while. Then every once in a while, they tear too many holes in their continuity that they have to push a reset button to alter reality and start over.

Good thing I didn't spend any money on this series...