Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Your average comic book reader might think that a Crisis on Infinite Earths was bad news. CRISIS!! Replicated infinitely on every imaginable Earth (including an Earth where Khloe Kardashian is both U.S. President and reigning American Idol winner)!! Could such a devastating tragedy ever be topped? Naive Answer: Of course it can’t be topped. That’s [...]

Okay. As the title suggests, this is the finale of the Infinite Crisis series. Because, in the DC Universe, even the infinite has an end. Take that, maths nerds! We start with Supes, Bats, Golden Age Supes, Wonder Woman, Power Girl and the rest all upset about Superboy being totally dead. Luckily, before we can [...]

All rightey then. Racing to a conclusion now. Which seems to make sense with only two issues to go. Here in the penultimate issue, it’s all about the fighting. Ahhhh, fighting. Where would the comic book industry be without it? Frankly, if you don’t have an assorted variety of garishly dressed superhumans embroiled in an [...]

We open at a prayer ceremony led by Zauriel, who, it just so happens, is a frickin’ angel! You’ve got to admit, if you’re going to have a church service, then that’s the way to go about it. It’s still not enough to keep Hal ‘No Manners’ Jordan entertained – too little brawling, too much [...]

Okay, the fourth issue starts as only the very best comic book stories do – namely with radioactive toxic poisoning on a city-wide scale. Hell yeah! The city in question is Bludhaven (city motto: ‘Bludhaven – why let Gotham have all the crime?)’ and the toxic poisoning? Why, that arises, obviously enough, from a supervillain [...]

The third issue opens, awesomely, with senseless fisticuffs. That giant, omnipotent, unleashed force of chaotic magic, The Spectre, is laying waste to Captain Fish-Head and the rest of Atlantis (presumably he heard the phrase ’shooting fish in a barrel’ and decided to give it a whirl). Elsewhere, thousands and thousands of OMACs are swarming all [...]

Okay. So at the end of last issue, Golden Age Supes (aka The Earth-2 Superman) busted out of his interdimensional hideout and back into the regular DC Universe. His first order of business? To, uh, find Power Girl. Newer readers may think this an odd priority and perhaps explain it away by, say, the fact [...]

Whew! Look at that title! A mouthful of self-evident tautological emptiness. Still, let’s not let that get us down, huh kids? What we have here is Infinite Crisis. It’s the sequel to Crisis On Infinite Earths and the prequel to Final Crisis, both of which I’ve reviewed on this site before and, hence, it makes [...]