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I'm about 300 pages in for Infinite Crisis. Really liking it a lot. I planned to just check it out and finish other stuff but now I'm invested in it. Glad I picked it up.
Modern books I can read much faster than a silver age book. The upside to that is I find it makes them easier to re-read.
Infinite Crisis was terrific, It took me some time to work through Sacrifice and Omac but I wasn’t in the right mindset. I just finished 52, they just got better after infinite Crisis. The Marvel Family is too good! DC streaming should adapt this stuff!
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Somehow, Ralph Dibny, Boostergold, The Questions, Adam Strange, Animal Man, Rip Hunter, Starfire, and Black Adam are the greatest heroes in the DC universe! Dr. Sivana, the original, throws his glasses in the ring as the greatest DC villain ever! Will Magnus and TO Morrow out magic magic with Science! 52 is for real!
I don't know about the omnibus. I will say the original 4 trades are probably better (if you can track them down) than the two chunky ones - in the four volume version, there is a behind the scenes page or two with each issue, usually with some art breakdown and a few paragraphs from the creative team about what they were doing. I didn't see anything like that when I flipped through one of the chunky ones.
I've seen some pics of the 52 omnibus falling apart, mainly the cover separating from the paper block. I have the original 4 trades and I'm happy with them, at least I don't have to worry about the construction.
While the extras in the original trades are great I won't say pay cover for them if you can get the new chunky trades for cheap.
But regardless of which version you are getting I would highly recommend picking the series up, it's a great follow up and I've highly enjoyed reading it every time I revisited the series.
Bought the omnibus and read the whole thing. Went back and forth alot in the book looking at previous sections and used the book on a stand, plus left it open for hours on end once. Books was still in great condition. I got scared too when I bought it, but I ended up going for it as I'm not a fan of Chunky trades that start to go over 450+ pages or so. I had was worried as I saw that pic on amazon that had teh cover ripped off it, but mine ended up being good.
What happened was (hope I remember correctly ) after infinite crisis every title had a one year jump in the story and 52 meant to fill out that one year gap.
Also it dealt with the aftermath of the crisis and it was a very unique collaboration between some of the biggest writers at DC.