Taking Sides: Crisis (US) Vs Crisis (UK)

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This is another comics thread not a geopolitics one, sorry.

On the one hand you have Crisis (On Infinite Earths), 12 issue hyper-busy mini-series in which everyone fights everyone and worlds are destroyed by a purple bad guy who looks like a He-Man figure. The day I gave up talking to actual comics fans online was the day when many of them announced their intention to buy a hardback of this cash cow for $100 a pop.

On the other hand you have Crisis, the 'grown-up' sister comic to 2000AD which had only 2 stories (lots of others later though) - completely impenetrable psychosexual superhero farrago 'New Statesmen' and Pat Mills' right-on 'Third World War' in which evil megacorps do bad things to poor people.

Which is it to be?

― Tom, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Only the Dirty Vicar will answer this I fear.

― Tom, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i used to always think thanos was behind crisis on infinite earths until i remembered he was a marvel character. perez was a nice enough guy when i met him though. wasn't the crisis uk a shit metal band?

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

US Crisis = Incredibly lame. A friend bought me it recently with an air of "You can't but love this". It would be fairer to have said "You will not be able to read this". The story is SO DULL. After pages and pages of it you're still left with very little sense of there being any point whatsoever to it.

There is one good bit - where the Evil versions of Batman & Superman on Earth 2 battle unsuccessfully to save the world they once terrorised.

UK Crisis - the Third World War had its moments before Pat Mills was replaced by his evil twin Pat Mills, the one who bangs on about celtic mysticism and chaos if you don't crack the whip on him. I'm still grateful to it for giving me the word "wargasm", and even though he appeared in the later rubbish bit of the story Crocodile Ryan was a great villain.

The New Statesmen - completely incomprehensible, but you always felt that this was because you weren't cool enough to follow it rather than because it was no good. Because it was essentially a B-Side it was the cooler one to like.

― DV, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanos = Jim Starlin's rip-off of Kirby's Darkseid, hence the confusion.

Crisis (US) - pointless and boring. George Perez has mastered the art of drawing bricks but not bodies. DC 'continuity' - all those different bloody 'Earths' - one of the reason their comics are so fucking dull. Can't believe anyone under the age of 30 gives a flying one abt the 'different' Flashes etc.

Crisis (UK) - worthy and boring. The last few issues had some nice European reprints, tho'.

― Andrew L, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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