Crisis On Infinite Earths Giant #2
- New from Marv Wolfman, Marc Guggenheim & Tom Derenick, continuing a story from the previous issue, in which Felicity Smoak somewhat obnoxiously (it seems to be my word of the day) tries to petition for her needs to be greater than anyone else's as she mourns the death of Oliver Queen and demands he be brought back. Probably intended to be read before the final two installments of the Arrowverse Crisis, but I guess it doesn't hurt to read it after. Featuring an appearance (advertised on the cover) from the Green Lantern Corps, led by Sinestro (will be interesting if the forthcoming TV series will follow such continuity).
- New from Wolfman, Guggenheim & Tom Grummett, likewise continuing a story from the previous issue, featuring Lex Luthor(s). Still great to see Grummett doing Superman art again, and if anything, he seems more comfortable this time, and as if he never missed a beat (I like when there's continuity in an artist's work, especially if they have arrived at a definitive style, over long periods of time).
- Reprint of Crisis #8, as represented by the cover of the Giant, featuring the death of Barry Allen.
- Reprint of Crisis #11, which in this reading, at least for me, seems much more weirdly to anticipate Geoff Johns' Infinite Crisis than I remember.
- Reprint of DCU: Legacies #6, which is like an Astro City take on Crisis.
I saw that Flash crossover though I'd already heard about it before I watched it on my Roku. I guess it was unexpected because DC never really crossed over their movie and TV properties, just like Marvel rarely did that with their ABC/Netflix shows. I guess they figure they had nothing to lose by doing it and a good reminder to DC fans that Ezra Miller's Flash still exists despite all the setbacks. The mention of "Victor" was somewhat weird as Ray Fisher has already left, or at least I thought he had, so I'd doubt he'd show up in an eventual movie.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I liked Felicity the first couple of seasons of Arrow but they really ruined her character by hooking her up with Oliver.
Marvel pulled a wicked publicity stunt by convincing fans the TV material was relevant to the MCU. But I think the fact that so few fans actually ended up caring about the TV material (which is something Netflix gets to obscure in the same way the internet allows everything to seem bigger than it really is, when it's really a lot smaller, which is something us people with no real traffic know very well). There was no reason to throw too much money, or crossover material. Most of the MCU fans would never have known, or cared, that it happened.
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