Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. This is a compilation of the DC Crisis Event Trilogy reviews, several occasions where the DC Universe reboots or sort of reboots!
0:00:00 – Crisis on Infinite Earths
0:50:49 – Infinite Crisis
2:04:18 – Final Crisis
3:16:53 – Zero Hour
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This compilation and having Infinite and Final Back to Back makes me really hope we get a re-review of Countdown for a future x00th episode
"We will not do anymore crises." Then the next year we got a Dark Crisie. Sigh
Maybe it’s just me but… what exactly was so dumb about Kyle Rainer’s plan? I guess it’s because I’ve never read the book itself, but I don’t get why damaging Alex Luthor’s hand and stopping him from smushing the earths together over and over was so dumb, sure I don’t get how in the world they knew to do that but still
1:24:08 god I wish we got that instead.
The Final Crisis review reminds me of how awful that Rubik's Cube symbolism is. I did a lengthy breakdown of it on the original review, but to tl;dr – no, the "number of god" is the MAXIMUM number of moves that it would take to solve any Rubik's Cube configuration, not the minimum, and even the original research paper that was likely cited for the number the comic gives notes that it was a median, some cubes took less and some took more. And it's obvious that saying "no one can solve a less cube in less than 18 moves" is bullcrap – take a solved cube, move it 5 times, and there, you can solve it in only 5 moves.
My biggest issue with Infinite Crisis is how it treats Golden Age Superman. There is no way he would be okay with wiping out an entire universe just to bring back his own world. I'm okay with him being tempted but Superman would never do that, especially when he is the representation of what Superman truly is. And his death was not done well either. Personally, I would have had him die being the one to take down the tower before it could merge the two worlds, as opposed to Connor. While Connor would be the one to take down Superboy Prime.
Can’t wait for this to become immediately outdated next event comics month when Linkara’s fans force him to review Dark Crisis
Anti-Monitor sounds like Futurama Nixon, and I am down with that.
Yeah I still remember when this came out; nearly each issue was one of the coolest I'd ever seen and the series on a whole also one of my favorites…and maybe the one I dislike the most (it having wiped out MY DC and lead to me leaving comics). So many awesome cameos and interactions and never seen team-ups. And such wonderful art; as great as Kirby was Perez was the main man for crowds. I wish they'd shown the new Earth and let us see all of the drama of so many getting used to the new status quo, even if just for a few more months instead of that chaotic uneven shift over that we got with some series suddenly rebooting while others showed no change. The biggest shame is that there were still so many Pre-Crisis stories to be told, begged for team-ups to do and long asked questions that never got answered. Also, gotta say, I like the coloring of the original issues better than the scans.
I’ve been hoping you’d make this compilation, they’re some of my favorite episodes . Thanks
Crisis on Infinite Earths is still unmatched. Featuring every single character to ever have their own book up to that point besides Hal Jordan and Captain Carrot, there’s nothing quite like it
So when is DC’s next event comic: Existential Crisis? 😉
My favorite issue of Crisis was the Villain War!
Sgt Rock used his GI Bill to get an advanced physics degree. He was an easy choice to help fight the Anti-Monitor.
1:50:13
Power Girl's face looks like it aged 20 years.
God, suddenly getting blasted with the old intro had me realing with nostalgia
Keep up the great work as always linkara
Been a fan since 2012
1:06:40
That Tobin was Jason Todd who Batman was currently dealing with in his return as the Red Hood in under the Red Hood. Chemo being dropped on Blüdheven happened during the final fight between the two meaning Batman ran from that to deal with the rest of the crisis
I feel like for some authors, if your super-hero is a tiny bit different from a human (Superman, Wonder Woman, etc…), then he can never relate to humans and must have an arc about reconnecting to them. Even if all the continuity beforehand shows it's bullcrap ^^'
Evil anchormen…. sooo Fox News and OAN?
Now what I really want is to eventually see Lewis review Dark Crisis, the most recent Crisis event.
It's pretty good, and it sets up the current state of using the past to build the future. Y'know…the opposite of toxic nostalgia.
On a related note, Stargirl: The Lost Children. It's written by Geoff Johns, brings some Golden Age deep cuts, and uses the past to add to the future by giving Stargirl her own Young Justice Society.
2:05:46 I guess you could say that countdown causes space to be warped in time to be bendable
The role of the Cats in this video are being played by Bulbasuars.
Was not expecting this to ever become a giant compilation video. A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one. I'm guessing if the third Infinity event in the trilogy for Marvel ever gets chosen for Event Comics Month that will eventually get a compilation of that at some point to.
3:30:53
If I were DC, there would be two versions of Hawkman and Hawkgirl that coexisted in the Pre-Flashpoint continuity without any reboots or retcons that changed both characters. For example, the Golden Age Hawkman would debut in October 1939 and join the JSA in 1940 and the Golden Age Hawkgirl would debut in June 1941 and join the All-Star Squadron in 1941, while the Silver Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl (later renamed and rebranded as Hawkwoman) arrived from Thanagar to Earth and made their debut in 1961 (or 34 years before Dawn of DC) and joined the JLA 13 years in real-time (or five years in sliding time) apart.
Everything would be like it is or was Pre-Crisis and Pre-Flashpoint without any continuity errors, while Hawkworld would either be a Post-Crisis retelling of the Silver Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl set in the past or would be an Elseworlds story.
That is how I will set the continuity straight for the Golden and Silver Age Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
3:19:52
I thought Zero Hour was an okay event, but the two-page spread of the DC timeline showing superheroes since Superman’s public debut being active since for ten years is a mindscrew for the readers.
In my headcanon, it would make sense that all the heroes since Superman’s public debut would be active for 23 years (or 35 years since Superman started as the original Superboy at eight years old) since Superman graduated from Superboy at 20 years old, making the JSA in their seventies, the JLA in their late-thirties or early-forties, the Titans and Infinity Inc. in their mid-twenties or early-thirties, and Young Justice be in their early or mid-teens. At least that would make sense timeline and continuity wise.
Also, in my headcanon, Barry Allen’s debut as the Flash would happen five years after Superman’s debut, the JLA would form seven years after Superman’s debut, Flash of Two Worlds would happen nine years after Superman’s debut, the first JLA/JSA teamup would happen and the Titans would form as the Teen Titans ten years after Superman’s debut, the New Teen Titans and the Outsiders and Infinity Inc. would form fifteen years after Superman’s debut, the first Crisis would happen 17 years after Superman’s pubic debut, Legends would happen a year after the first Crisis, Millennium would happen two years after the first Crisis, Invasion would happen three years after the first Crisis, the JSA would return and the Death of Superman would happen five years after the first Crisis, and Zero Hour would happen six years after the first Crisis. That way, it would make a lot of sense to the readers.
I have no idea how they plan to stuff Crisis into a single animated movie without butchering it
So, Final Crisis has the villain create special helmets that brainwashes people and turns them into mindless worshipping consumers, which is ultimately stopped by the hero singing a song to stop the big bad. Final Crisis has the same plot as the SpongeBob movie.
I absolutely love your “Toxic Nostalgia” tangent from Infinite Crisis. I feel like it changed the way I look on my own past.
The Airplane!/Zero Hour reference was brilliant!
That Alex Ross cover with the Tuning Fork over the white face makes me think that Galactus was peeking into the DC Universe.
Has anything here read Batman: year one and is it a Good comic
Oooo a marathon video yay 😊
Wait, just wait, wiat……….at the 25:53 point of the video, we get to see Lex with red hair……..is that why Jesse Eisenberg, got to play him in the movies?? Beacuse (and yes I know the dots I'm connecting are a stretch to make but just got with me) a interdimensional Lex Luthor planted in the story, still making Doomsday with whatever kryptionain D.N.A. kinda makes a bit more sense
I usually have to watch this all on a playlist.
Now I can listen to this while I work without having to switch every few hours.