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Crisis Infinite Earths
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Download Movie Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths
Based upon ideas from at least a couple of different comics sources, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths was scripted by the always-reliable Dwayne McDuffie, and its basic premise is of the simple-yet-enormously-engaging sort. On another Earth that’s just one among an infinite buffet of third planets (see the still below), Lex Luthor is not only a good guy, but also fills the same sort of leadership role that we’re used to seeing Superman in. With his smarts, financial resources, lack of superpowers, and evident knack for survival, one might expect this Luthor to bear some similarity to Bruce Wayne/Batman, but that’s not a notion that the story pursues. No, the focus here is on the baddies of this alt-Earth, a cartel of evil-twin types so nasty and effective that they’ve virtually wiped out all the heroes, leaving Luthor with a small problem—there are no good guys left to lead, so he needs to stage a recruitment drive in another plane of reality.
Traveling by means of an inter-dimensional hand-held whatchamacallit, Luthor beseeches the Justice League that we know and love to come to his planet’s aid. It’s too bad he doesn’t travel to an Earth populated by five billion noble superheroes and use some of their surplus, but that would make things too easy. Instead, he creates a crisis of conscience for the Justice League members, who must decide whether they should take a few personal days from being guardians of their own Earth in order to play saviors for an insanely dangerous, topsy-turvy world whose existence they only learned about five minutes ago. In the end, however, they don’t really spend too much debating this issue before returning with Luthor to the hero-challenged place he calls home… and then, boom, we’re off to the races.
Which is precisely the point where both all the virtues and all the shortcomings of the movie eventually become apparent: its irresistible forward-momentum. One of the nice things about the DCU series is that with runtimes of roughly 75 minutes the entries have consistently been able to distill epic narratives so that we’re left only with the “good parts”—that is, we do without all the filler we’re apt to encounter in live-action studio releases in the fantasy or action genres. We already know all the major characters (even if we need to pause for a second to figure out the continuity), so all the audience really needs to do is buckle up and enjoy the ride.And to be clear, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths provides everything you’d want in such a ride. Its major problem, then—and there will be many who disagree with me—is not the speed at which it travels or the impact with which it delivers its body blows.
It’s not enough that the Justice League needs to defeat a formidable array of super-villains. (By the way, I was wrong to call them “evil twins” before—they’re a lot more interesting than that, sometimes coming off as amalgams of different characters.) They also must convince a wimpy U.S. President to stand up to this “Crime Syndicate”—oh, and did I mention that his far-less-wimpy daughter has an intense albeit brief romance with Martian Manhunter? Well, all of this is fine until it hits you that we’re still only about halfway through the movie. That’s when things shift and escalate as a couple of the bad guys (who are a level of Evil-with-a-capital-E above the others) want to use Luthor’s gadget and a really big bomb to destroy Earth Prime and thus all of the other Earths.
Don’t get me wrong—all of this is very entertaining, and there’s a lot to like that I haven’t even referenced yet. The individual fight scenes are quite thrilling, and the villains are compellingly psychotic and/or sadistic in ways that are both creative and memorable. Not sure why, though, that when some superheroes migrate to the dark side they forsake their Midwestern inflections for Bowery Boys-style New York accents, but it’s kind of amusing. And speaking of funny, despite limited screen time the Flash manages to unleash some of his most devastating one-liners ever.
Also, a few quick words about the performance of James Woods in the key role of Owlman. Its so low-key that its intensity kind of sneaks up on you, so that at first you may think Woods is dangerously underacting. But actually the tone he hits manages to serve as a nice counterpoint to all the ear-shattering sturm-und-drang. In short, good call on the part of Woods and voice director Andrea Romano.
And this is just one of many, many similar good calls; the problem is that the serving size is often way too small, so just as you’re starting to enjoy any given interpretation, relationship, or neat plot device, the movie has already moved on to something else. So for Justice League and DCU fans, this outing should satisfy as many viewers as it exhausts. For others, drawn in by the big names in the cast and the overall premise, well, they may wish they could tap the brakes once in a while and take control of the presentation a bit more… as occurs, for example, when one reads a comic.
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I’d like to start collecting Batman comics. Where do I start?
I’ve been a big Marvel fan for about 15 years, but have never read much DC Comics. I know there were a lot of different continuities and that the Crisis on Infinite Earths cleaned all that up, but where should I start? What were the first Batman issues after the Crisis, for both Batman and Detective Comics? Are those the only two series I should worry about, or are there others? Thanks for the help!
I’m looking for the actual issue numbers of the post-Crisis Batman series. I’m not interested in trades. In other words, what was the first issue of Detective Comics after the Crisis on Infinite Earths? What about Batman? Issue #…? Also, how many other series are there that I have to worry about? I know Spider-Man has “Amazing Spider-Man”, “Spider-Man”, “Web of Spider-Man”, etc. Is Batman like that too?
There are a whole bunch of Batman series. Detective and Batman are the main two there is also shadow of the bat and legend of the Dark Knight and a whole host of others.
I know you don’t want trades but I think you should read a couple anyway. Aside from the three already mentioned I’d like to recommend the long halloween by Jeph Loeb.
Also disregard anyone who says Bruce Wayne is dead. D.C. have stated that he isn’t dead forever and he will be back.
Review-a-Day #53: Crisis on Infinite Earths
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