ok so i finally finished crisis on infinite earths. gonna be totally honest, i think it dragged on about 2-3 issues too long. not even all the minor character stories, that's probably great if you were paying attention to their series' and weren't terribly distracting even though i didn't know most of them.
but the climaxes, man. there were too many. all the build up to the big mystery of why this was all happening, and who the monitor was, and what role the other weirdos like alexander and lyla and pariah had, that was all really compelling. and then they won! but oh no the earths are all smashed together. so we're in the aftermath, right? nope. surprise every villain attack. so we won right? nope, monitor went back in time. so we WON, RIGHT? NOPE, EARTH SUCKED INTO THE ANTIMATTER VERSE AGAIN. so the heroes beat him back and WE WON, RIGHT???? PSYCHE HES STILL ALIVE SO WE THROW HIM INTO THE SUN AND WON RI--
at the very least i think they coulda cut the villain attack out, or maybe just NOT framed it as a fake cool-down and instead kept the tension increasing the way they clearly always intended. just don't have the heroes believe they've won every 5 seconds. you are allowed one, maybe two fake wins. any more than that and it starts to get comical.
it also felt weird that it was clearly Following The Monitor's plan, with this like cosmic chess game playing out....and then that just kinda petered out halfway. and that wasnt even when the monitor DIED, it was several issues later! really weird to go from battle-of-wills mind games to an all-out brawl where no one knows whats going on.
anyway, this has been my review of a comic miniseries from 40 fucking years ago. now i gotta get back to batman and figure out how we got from THAT to the actual rebooted timelines, because acrobat jay was still fucking there in the last issue of crisis. so ?????????
