This is a big one! But unlike with Countdown to Infinite Crisis, you’re gonna have to pay for all those extra pages. It would be an understatement to say that this book is extremely important for the future of DC comic. However, this book is a pretty long read, and both the writing and the artwork range from great to not-so-good. This is a conglomeration of several separate comics which inform the reader and clarify different points and characters that are going to be important in the upcoming crisis. Frustratingly, this book gives almost no hints as to what parts these happenings and characters are going to play. Still, I believe that this book is necessary to all those that don’t wish to be bitterly confused when reading the upcoming Infinite Crisis.

Now why do I say it is important to the future of DC? There are several reasons. The first of which is the uniform direction of all of the DC comics across the board. In my time as a collector, I have never seen such a unification of all the comic stories. Something big is coming. Secondly, all of these stories point to massive changes in even the most steadfast and stapled comic heroes. I’m talking about apocalyptic changes. Thirdly, Grant Morrison foremost, and many other comic creators are bringing up a host of old, b-list, forgotten, or otherwise unimportant characters and placing them in the spotlight. In my opinion, this can only mean that the crazy, conflicting story lines are about to be unified by a DC wide cataclysm, and many of the characters are being given their last spot in the sun before they are wiped off the pages of comic books forever.

-Fumanchu