Copy and history

In 1985, you needed a detailed plan and a tube of aspirins to understand how land belonged to which character in DC. The key word was the concept of the multiverse with earth tens existing next to each other, and as many versions of the major DC characters, starting with Superman and Batman (and do not tell me different futures).

Marv Wolfman and George Perez realized a maxisérie which put an end to all that and allowed to leave on simpler grounds. Crisis on Infinite Earths tells how two beings almost omnipotent (the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor) will thank you without a battle on which the fate of the multiverse. The Monitor will enlist and involve all the heroes of the DC Universe to preserve life. 25 years later, this story reads or rereads with pleasure. The different variations of the same heroes appear rather kitsch, but the stakes, the narrative and the expertise of two creators involve the player and vibrates to the rhythm of twists and many victims.

This volume is the remastered drawings and all inking regained their sharpness. The coloring was also redone to take advantage of developments in technology made since. The consequences of this crossover (without precedent or equivalent at the time) were felt to this day in stories like Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994), Identity Crisis (2004), The OMAC Project (2005) , Infinite Crisis (2005-2006), 52 1 (2006-2007), Countdown to Final Crisis 1 (2007-2008) and Final Crisis (2008).

This story remains an indispensable reference in the DC Universe, and a nice story to read with characters from swarming drawings in fully mastered compositions of George Perez.