A Moment of Comics

For no particular reason, here's an issue of the Avengers showing how Ultron did a genocide and killed an entire nation. From Volume Three of Avengers, issue #20, written by Kurt Busiek with pencils by George Perez and inks by Al Vey.

 

A Moment of Comics

I already posted one of my two favorite pages from Crisis on Infinite Earths #12. Might as well post the other one. It's easy to make fun of Marv Wolfman's purple prose as a modern reader, but when he wanted to be subtle, he could be. Aside form George Perez's haunting image of Psycho Pirate, Wolfman did a good job giving us an unsettling ending to the series. The one who remembers what happened to the DC Multiverse is an insane man and therefore the ultimate unreliable narrator? An anti-narrator, if you will? Chilling. 

A Moment of Comics

Comics were an erratic thing in my youth, a time before comic shops were a known thing to me or my parents (or they kept that knowledge from me). Buying more than two issues of any title in its proper sequence was almost unheard of.

 
The first issue of Crisis on Infinite Earths I actually bought was issue #12. The last issue.

I remember seeing and reading through the iconic "Death of Supergirl" issue in the stands, but it was too much for me at the time.

Marv Wolfman's purple prose aside, George Perez's page of the Anti-Monitor's shadow demons being unleashed on the earth was a horrifying image. Matched only by the last page with an institutionalized Psycho Pirate rambling to us readers with his final say on the story.

The whole issue was insane. I had very little idea of what happened before, but it didn't matter. I read this issue over and over again. I was finally able to track down affordable back issues of this series over a decade later--not too long before they finally came out with a collection.

How does the latest Crisis, the official "sequel," measure up? I might just tell you later.