By Robby Reed, from the excellent Dial B for Blog, posted his review and comments on Infinite Crisis #3. He does such a great job dissecting this issue and he's right on many points. Phil Jiminez does put too much detail into his artwork and it is hard to figure out what's happening in the action scenes. Who was that guy Aquaman killed? And there are so many guest appearances from various mini-series (Shadowpact, Rann-Thanagar, etc.) that don't really advance the main story. Good catch on that Jim Aparo Adventure Comics cover being used in an IC panel. Nuff said.
Infinite Crisis: December 2005 Archives
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Infinite Crisis #3 came out yesterday and it was the first new comic that I read. I love the scene between Batman from our Earth and the Superman from Earth-1. Seems like the first time we've seen Bats cry in a while. Just like I told you, droogies, Batman was much cooler on Earth-2. I think the other players from that cave may be evil, but Superman I seems innocent so far. I also liked the Luthor vs. Luthor fight scene. Some of the surprising things that we saw on the last double-page spread made me research a few things from the original Crisis.
What was that thing in the cave? A rocket, embedded in the ground? An extended version of the old Legion clubhouse? Nope. It was one of the Monitor's vibrational tuning forks. He used these things to help merge various universes into one cohesive entity when the Anti-Monitor went on his universe-killing rampage. Somehow Alexander Luthor must have gotten a hold of one and started plugging heroes around the perimeter in order to power it up or something. And where did that carcass of the Anti-Monitor come from?
In Crisis #12, the heroes from all universes had their big showdown with the Anti-Monitor. First, they went to Qward, where the Anti-Monitor had fashioned this enormous body-armor that withstood a lot of punishment from the collective might of DC's finest. In the end, the body crashed down hard on Qward. The heroes thought they had won, but it turned out that the Anti-Monitor had just abandoned this husk and turned into a form made out of pure energy. In Infinite Crisis, somehow Alexander Luthor retrieved this carcass and has mounted it on the vibrational fork. To what end, we don't know. To revive the Anti-Monitor? To use it's residual energy to locate and revive Earth-1?
Here's another thing from the past Crisis that might be back. Ever since the end of the Rann-Thanagar War, we've been wondering what's up with that rift in space. In this issue, the heroes say that the rift is in the center of the universe. This might have been mentioned before, but it escaped me until now. Flashback to Crisis #10, where the Anti-Monitor stuck his hand through a similar rift in order to destroy the multiverses. This actually goes back even further, to an issue of Green Lantern, where Kronos observed a hand in this rift causing the birth of the DC Universes. Look at the way this rift is drawn/painted in Infinite Crisis 3 and compare it to the panel above...they look very similar to me, although IF3 has a more high-tech depiction.
Will a hand arise out of this rift? Will it collapse or expand the universe? It will be interesting to find out. Nuff said.
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