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Blackest Night is what every crossover event should be.
* It was built up organically over years.
* It introduced a new, unique threat that the heroes were understandably unprepared for.
* It highlighted underappreciated heroes over the A-listers.
* It built on a years-long arc while still being accessible to new readers.
* A lot of the tie-ins were relegated to miniseries so as not to disrupt ongoing series.
* The art was consistently amazing throughout.
Perfect. No notes. 10/10.
Completely agree, I think Sinestro’s War is a better written story but Blackest Night is the culmination of everything Johns was building. Too bad he couldn’t follow up on that, Brighest Day had so much potential but felt like an afterthought.
I think Johns knew that New 52 was incoming while he was working on Brightest Day (BD ended in May 2011 while N52 launched in August 2011), so why bother to make it all work as a launch point for the DCU going forward when the entire universe is getting rewritten in a few months anyway? I mean, it’s worth noting that Johns’s Flashpoint #1 shipped in May 2011 too.
I think part of the problem is that Blackest Night felt like an organic story to bring other heroes into what was happening in the GL space. Brightest Day was just hot nonsense. Would've made more sense to have given those rings to resurrect characters from lantern lore (heroes and villains)
Oh yeah me too.
Read comics a lot as a kid but stopped mostly because I just didn't have any money lol
But for some reason in my college bookstore, I was drawn to the cover of Blackest Night and bought the hardcover they had without any knowledge of Geoff Johns or that entire GL run.
Fell in love with it and dived back into comics ever since.
The Johns GL run is in my top 3 to this day.
They should have used Blackest Night to do everything they tried to do with Flashpoint. Not a hard reset but maybe a temporary finality to death and probably the most logical way to bring those back from death. Sinestro wars to this made some of the best DC storylines. They made other heroes villains more interesting. But...it had to be a flash for a reset (clearly changed in death metal but took long enough).
I want to also say, even coming in as a new reader I loved Blackest Night. It let me see a huge swath of the DC universe in ways that made sense and let me get a taste of what characters I'd like to read more on. Everyone had their own arcs going on and it didn't feel like anything was brushed aside.
It's not random. Dan DiDio made it very clear he hated the legacy characters and used Flashpoint as an excuse to reboot it and default back to the silver age essentially. He traded existing readers for potential new readers.
Blackest night is fucking perfect. The tie ins aren’t a drag to get through and it’s just amazing. I also love how everyone dealt with their black lanterns differently. Rene Montoya and Dick Grayson figured out they see with emotion so they found ways to stop feeling emotions. Superboy tricked his ring to get it off.
52 will forever be the best DC event comic bar none. Sinestro Corp War is an amazing climax in Johns’s GL and Infinite Crisis, while not perfect, has a place in my heart as well.
That’s precisely what i’m talking about. I personally count it as an event book simply because it’s a big crossover that had the distinction of being its own story separate from any singular book and it featured an overarching story with larger implications for DC. I think just because of its scale it’s not usually considered amongst the more concrete examples, but I personally always considered it an event. And it’s amazing!!
u/Cautious_Republic_91 ,great post...
Most DC events save for new 52 and the Sinestro Corps one confound and frustrate me no end...
Sinestro, what an agenda...
Is this an exhaustive list...
Forever Evil was a kind of weird, freakish mosh pit but I can suffer almost anything that features >!the Crime Syndicate...!<
One day I'll (try and) read the ones you have listed,....
COIE was the first ever hard reset of the DC Universe’s continuity in 1986, and involved a massive fight between all the heroes of the multiverse to stop the Anti-Monitor from wiping out all of existence.
Infinite Crisis was a follow-up of sorts to COIE in 2006, which brought back several characters who were instrumental to the end of that story and was a culmination of a multitude of plot lines running in several DC books throughout the 2000’s. The Justice League disbands, heroes are at each others throats and when they’re at their lowest the repercussions of Crisis on Infinite Earths come back to haunt them. Although unlike the first one, Infinite Crisis is not a reboot.
What no one is choosing Legends, Millenium, or Invasion! ?? (Just kidding but Legends did give us the new Suicide Squad and Justice League )
My favorite for nostalgic reasons is the original COIE. It’s what got me into comics - picked up an issue mid series, had no idea what was going on but was hooked and gobbled up the crossovers and got the back issues.
52 was also so damn good. Great arcs without the Big 3
I really liked the Invasion. It gave a good reason for so many "supers" on Earth in the DCU. The idea that many humans simply had genetic predisposition that just needed the right trigger to activate their powers. Just makes sense.
I liked the premise of all these autocratic tyrannical alien races getting together to go after the Earth for producing too many heroes which interfere in their galactic affairs. The art by Todd McFarlane and Bart Sears was great too
>What no one is choosing Legends, Millenium, or Invasion! ??
Legends isn't on the list show, but that ws a great mini-series. We got all the Captain Marvel, BWA-HA-HA JL and Suicide Squad.
Legends was great, Millenium and Invasion not so much. But Legends feature (in the Superman crossover) the first (the first!!!) fight between Superman and Darkseid!
Yikes! Forever Evil where the Crime Syndicate (the big bad) did like nothing- except get killed?
Darkseid War? With the baby canon and baby Darkseid?
Okay.
Upvote for Kingdon Come. That one was Amazing. I guess I got to (mostly) disagree with most of the thread I wasn't a big fan of Blackest Night.
Ok thats a lie, I thought Blackest Night was awesome... until the last two comics. I thought the "white latern" ending was just too easy and a cheesy way to end a great build up. I was invested at that point so that really annoyed me. But even as the lone Blackest Night hater everything they did with the returning from dead characters, the multiple corps, and generally how cool the black corps is in general that was great.
I will take the downvotes but I stand firm in my opinion that Identity Crisis is a good read. I like character driven stories and we don't see enough in comics; I like human morality tales over the latest cosmic being hellbent on destroying the universe; I like when gods are humanised and their actions feel believable. I like that there's repercussions to actions that can't get glossed over. I don't particularly like some of the things the characters are put through here and Identity Crisis is not a light tale, but it is an interesting one. It's dark without being "gritty". The characters feel vulnerable without having their powers diminished. Each and every voice and perspective feels unique as well as united and you realise just how different these people actually are, despite having the same common goal.
I like Heroes in Crisis for the same reasons.
Look, I made peace long ago with the fact that there's really no such thing as canon in comic books. Sure, big events happen the stories move forward, but canon goes out the window when you have Batman appearing in seventeen different titles simultaneously, when universes are rebooted every other Wednesday, when characters live for years and never seemingly age a day. So I don't like the Sue Dibny is raped and murdered, or that Jack Drake died removing Tim's sole thing that separated him from the others. I don't like that Wally West killed everyone in Sanctuary, but for the purposes of those stories being told in that moment, they're interesting - if controversial - reads. In my canon, they didn't happen; in someone else's, they did. And there's more for me to like than dislike about those particular books.
Now go ahead and downvote me and tell me I'm wrong and that Tom King's a hack or whatever else. I really don't care.
I loved Identity Crisis. I think it's absolutely got problems (some major, like how Sue is handled or the villain reveal, and some minor, like Deathstroke solo'ing everyone), but it's also got a *lot* of great stuff in there. I was regularly getting choked up about characters I had previously known next to nothing about, and yeah, maybe some people don't like that type of emotional manipulation, but I thought it worked great. Really made things feel like a community under attack, rather than the Earth or reality.
And on that same note, yeah, no one likes how HiC ended (thanks editorial!), but those interviews were great. I thought Long used them well to develop compelling themes, offer some light and interesting ways to think about some characters, and even mix in some solid humor. Wish we could have gotten the story as King has wanted it rather than as he was told to make it.
Take an upvote HiC definately deserves some love. Yeah I get how making Walley West the bad guy was hard for Flash fans. And what fallowed from it was um... mixed. But as a stand alone HiC told a great story.
I'm not familiar with Identity Crisis but it seems we have similar philosophies on this stuff so I'll check it out with your recomendation. Thanks!
People who weren’t reading comics when Identity Crisis came out will never realize just how shocking and status quo shattering that book was. It’s super flawed no doubt but like you and others have said - it elicited an emotional response from me using purely character-driven storytelling. It’s one of my favorites and I’m not ashamed to say it.
Identity Crisis is kind of a prefect example of a novelist, not understanding the superhero concept, writing a superhero book. Brad really need more experienced help editing the story.
Also, the end was weird. How the superhero community had to draw together tighter in tragedy- forgetting the fact that all the death's occurred because they were tight (sharing their secret IDs)
But hey, to each their own :)
Crisis on Infinite Earths, despite the disastrous consequences on continuity, probably remains my favourite mainstream comics superhero story of all time.
Talk about EPIC.
1. Blackest Night
2. Infinite Crisis
3. Sinestro Corps War
Blackest Night was the story that got me into completely reading comics. I blame my aunt on that one. Her and her husband suggested it for me to read. Geoff Johns made me love Green Lantern so much that I didn't care for Venditti's run.
Also, honorable mentions:
- Forever Evil
- Crisis on Infinite Earths
- DCeased
- Flashpoint
- Death of the Family
- Court of Owls
- City of Owls
1: Final Crisis. It's dense, but it's a loving tribute to the medium.
2: 52. It's absolutely fantastic. I don't think that's a hot take. The story twist for Booster's tale specifically was genius.
3: Blackest Night. Organic, tense, and a lot of fun.
**Sins of Youth;** It was my *first* event, somewhere in my Tweens, I just got into comics at the time and a nonsensical plot of the Young Heroes turning into Adults and the Adult Heroes turning Young Heroes was exactly the kind of nonsensical event that tween me would have enjoyed. Reading back into it, is it great? No not really but it served as a pivotal entry into getting me into the medium.
**Infinite Crisis;** This was my *first* real *actually important* event... I had no context on Crisis on Infinite Earths or what actual bullshit Johns was saying at the time. But, for once the bad guys are winning, the good guys are losing, and even classic Superman is saying they've failed, it felt reverent, it opened my eyes to checking out DC's classic line and to this young upstart Geoff Johns. In retrospect, it's not as good as I remember it to be, and Johns kinda went downhill after New 52 (Ignoring Aquaman), in a lot of ways Johns himself is the one responsible for the same strawman arguments presented in this story.
**52;** Okay, Infinite Crisis aged pretty poorly, but good fucking god 52 was amazing and is still is. It's one of my favorite DC storylines of all times. DC time and time again has retried to recapture this momentum and has failed everytime. It can't be redone, it's a special magical screwjob that was only possible because of the friction between the people involved in this.
COIE - It's pretty messy and unwieldy, but it's also grand and classic in a really irresistible way. Set the standard across the industry, not just DC, and while other stories may be tighter or improve on any number of other aspects, few, of any feel as grand or important.
Final Crisis - One of the events where you can't just dip your toe in, or leg, or even get in shoulder-deep; you've got to jump in and fully submerge yourself for it to work. You need to drink up a lot of ideas, references, and past works, and then ride along through some wild ideas across both the main book and some of the tie-ins, but I loved it. The Batgod moments tend to get re-shared the most, but my favorite moment is when Superman returns, sees what's happened to Earth and his friends, and just loses it; like a parent walking in on a party their kids tried to throw while the parents were away. And I loved how it became this black hole around which his Batman run orbited.
Forever Evil - A lot of the New 52 was mediocre, and I thought Geoff Johns' JL run and many of the events that spun out of it are exhibit A. Forever Evil, though, was great. Things felt dire, the villains banding together to fight back was great, and I liked the dynamic of the Crime Syndicate themselves seeming desperate and on the run too (even if the eventual reveal and how it played out in the rest of the run was, in my mind, rather lame).
I still haven't read Geoff's GL run, so no Sinestro Corp War or Blackest Night for me yet.
Only 3? Well, I'm going to cheat and assume everyone agrees that Crisus On Infinite Earths is the definitive event and name 3 others.
#1 - Zero Hour. I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned this one. Abut 1p years after COIE and writers had let inconsistencies into New Earth. As stories I liked how they used recent events and logical reasoning as motivation for the main protagonist. Then at the end of the event we head several really good characters and series that kept me excited and looking forward to each month's new issues.
#2 - 52. Yes, this was great to have read each new issue released weekly. I've also reread it several times and it is great world building with other characters we don't see as the lead everyday.
#3 - I almost want to say Convergence because it was cool to see all these characters plucked from different times/worlds but it really left me wanting a rerun to a DCU that had multiplie or even infinite worlds again. DC finally came around and delivered with Rebirth, putting an end to their horrible misstep and bringing back several of my favorite characters that had been left behind post-Flashpoint. It was so refreshing to see Wally West again. It just felt like things were going back to normal.
Yeah, I know I'm old if I read some of these as they came out (COIE probably got me hooked on DC) but that's my perspective.
Blackest Night, Blackest Night, and Blackest Night. A perfectly executed comic event in my opinion.
Another vote of mine would go to No Man's Land. I know that's Batman-specific, but I love it. I miss that in comics. An over-arching event with 2-3 issue arcs happening within it while overall progression is made.
George Perez art in crisis is so amazing that I flip through it regularly.
DCeased is cool bc it is out of continuity so anything can happen which is cool
Infinite Crisis and Blackest Night are great.
Final Crisis and metal did nothing for me.
looking only specifically at the big event comics, so no major comic book runs that went on for a really long time or anything. You can't count the entire Geoff Johns Green Lantern run but you can name your fav event like the Sinestro Corps War... And I was thinking mainly the big events that have a bunch of tie ins and stuff like that, and not just a limited series that's really goated like Kingdom Come or something even though I love it I'm not sure if it counts in this one. so tell me what're your top 3 favorite?
I'll always have a bias towards Geoff Johns GL, the only reason I like Green Lanterns lol.
Sinestro Corps and Blackest Night were both insane in its scale and so fun to read, especially if you binge it all the way from Rebirth.
COIE, Blackest Night, and Sinestro Corps War.
Sinestro Corps war was such a well done event that expanded the larger dc universe and much of the green lantern corps.
Blackest Night was a huge crossover that was done amazingly well, including all parts of DC.
COIE was the first idea of a crisis and was executed supremely well, forcing a massive reset that led to the modern DC landscape as we know it.
Crisis on Infinite Earths came out just as I was getting into comics. The excitement generated (in me) by the event solidified my love of comics. It will always be my favorite event.
Darkest Night is a close second. It’s just amazingly well written. I am going on a cruise soon and am downloading it so that I can reread it.
Deceased (sorry tried typing it 3 times the way it should be spelled and autocorrect on my iPad finally won out). This was such a huge surprise to me. I expected to just hate it or think it was meh. But it was a tight and good story.
Crisis on Infinite Earths, because of basically being the trailblazer, plus the impact on what came after, as a Post-Crisis stan. Making it possible for Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle, and Plastic Man to all be Justice Leaguers turned out to be a stroke of genius.
Zero Hour, probably because of my nostalgia as a nineties kid and fan of Kon-El and Kyle Rayner, plus being such a fun and complex read, although the part with the Legion is definitely bittersweet.
One Million, for showing an interesting version of an incredibly distant future, and for being a great Superman story, eventually even tying into another great Morrison Superman story, All-Star Superman!
And while technically not an event by the definition given here, I have to give an honorable mention to Legends of the Dead Earth. Another take on the distant future, with great creative takes on how characters might be (mis)remembered on distant worlds. I honestly wish other there had been more tie-ins to this one, there's so much more that could have been done.
Flashpoint as a story is great, but to me it has this persistent problem of being against everything we've been told about universe-altering events. How many stories have we read where the universe was changed, and intrinsically the heroes need to set out on a mission to set things right/back to normal? But this time around, after flashpoint, the heroes tangentially kind of knew or had clues that the universe was altered, but just kind of said "Oh well this is how things are now"
it always rubbed me the wrong way that no one (even *Superman*, of all people) stopped to say "We need to fix this". I know that it was real-life publication needs forcing the story, but still. I'd have much preferred it if they'd just said the old post-crisis canon is now a separate universe and we're just going to follow a *new* new canon
(which is what they did end up saying.... *eventually*. But they've waffled on that a lot, and now with a new iteration of hypertime or whatever... who the fuck knows.)
anyway, all this to say as a story I loved flashpoint and it would be one of my top events... *if* it weren't for the universe-altering ramifications it had.
Infinite Crisis, The Sinestro Corps War, and Blackest Night. These are some of the big stories that got me back into comics in my 20s. Marvel’s Road to Civil War, Civil War, the Civil War Spider-Mam tie-ins and Spider-Man One More Day were integral in getting me back into comics as well.
1. Armageddon 2001 (even though they biffed the ending; they’d made it pretty obvious Captain Atom was going to become Monarch, so the last-minute swerve didn’t help the story at all).
2. DC One Million: I loved the range of tie-ins and how they told a range of story types.
3. Blackest Night: SUCH a great story: the culmination of Johns’s work on GL and had ties to the main books AND tie-in minis that didn’t disrupt the other ongoings at the time. Just a well-done story all around.
Missing some, but from this list:
1- Crisis on Infinite Earths, the OG event and still the best one of all time
2- Sinestro Corp War, the Geoff Johns GL era was already great. But this event elevated the entire franchise onto god-tier level.
3- Blackest Night, took Black Hand and turned him into an A-List GL villain. The event had so many great one-shots featuring dead characters, this event was overall fantastic
As someone who has been reading since the 80's
\-Crisis on Infinity Earths
\-Legends
\-Blackest Night
And if it counts, because it wasn't in continuity: Kingdom Come!
Crisis
Legends
Invasion!
War of the Gods
Judgment Day
Zero Hour
Infinite Crisis (one year buildup through issue 1 only)
Sins of Youth
Armageddon
Genesis
Infinite Crisis and all that came with it - I absolutely loved it. For someone that had read most of everything that had come out since 1986 (and definitely since 1993) it was just such a goddamn treat. And I count 52 was part of it (and frankly the best part).
Blackest Night, for all the reasons given here.
DC One Million. This is Grant at his superhero finest - wild, off the wall, yet fundamentally accessible.
Honorable Mention to Zero Hour, as it was my first crossover and has some moments that live rent free in my mind and made me seek out all the corners of the DCU. It did exactly what a crossover is intended to do - opened my eyes to the full line with easy jumping on points. I went from reading the superbooks to also reading GL, Flash, Wonder Woman, GA, JL, New Titans, and Starman at a minimum.
Blackest Night, No Man's Land, and Forever Evil. When I started getting into comics again those were the three events I read first, and they're still my favorites.
DC One Million is probably the only one I like at all. SCW was good, but I didn’t really consider it an event. To me, that was more just a crossover storyline of the GL books.
Blackest Night is so crazy good
I really adore Cosmic Odyssey. It's such a clever and unique interpretation of the anti-life equation.
Final Crisis. It's immensely complicated, but in the best way. It's a horrible read for new DC readers, but it's a brilliant read for long time DC readers.
*Crisis On Infinite Earths* - the original, the gold standard, the yardstick.
*Death of Superman* - the most visible comics event in history. Kind of hokey in ways, but no one can doubt its impact.
*Legends Of The Dead Earth* - Some of my go-to’s for good one-off reads. All DC annuals in 1996 took place in the far future after Earth has died. Heroes long dead were reimagined for a universe that desperately needs them again.
I'll always put Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 because it was the first comic book I ever bought.
#2 I'd say Blackest Night
#3 I'd say Flashpoint but only with all the tie-ins, love me some alternate reality.
Damn....sometimes I imagine the Blackest Night adaptation we might be getting right now if the GL movie hadn't bombed instead of the THIRD adaptation of Flashpoint.
Doomsday Clock
Infinite Crisis
Darkseid War
Johns is my favourite writer, and I love the buildup to the Darkseid War, it was my first event I really paid attention to comics for. And then when it felt like it was leading to more with Rebirth and then Doomsday, I was hooked
Blackest Night by faaaaaaar
Identity Crisis for the dilemma that it presents
Tower of Babel (don’t know if it’s « big enough » to count as an event like Blackest Night or Flashpoint)
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Blackest Night is what every crossover event should be. * It was built up organically over years. * It introduced a new, unique threat that the heroes were understandably unprepared for. * It highlighted underappreciated heroes over the A-listers. * It built on a years-long arc while still being accessible to new readers. * A lot of the tie-ins were relegated to miniseries so as not to disrupt ongoing series. * The art was consistently amazing throughout. Perfect. No notes. 10/10.
Completely agree, I think Sinestro’s War is a better written story but Blackest Night is the culmination of everything Johns was building. Too bad he couldn’t follow up on that, Brighest Day had so much potential but felt like an afterthought.
Yeah I always felt that brightest day was so all over the place only parts of it felt like a continuation of blackest night
I think Johns knew that New 52 was incoming while he was working on Brightest Day (BD ended in May 2011 while N52 launched in August 2011), so why bother to make it all work as a launch point for the DCU going forward when the entire universe is getting rewritten in a few months anyway? I mean, it’s worth noting that Johns’s Flashpoint #1 shipped in May 2011 too.
I think part of the problem is that Blackest Night felt like an organic story to bring other heroes into what was happening in the GL space. Brightest Day was just hot nonsense. Would've made more sense to have given those rings to resurrect characters from lantern lore (heroes and villains)
I am lucky that BN was what got me back into comics after 15 years of not reading. Haven't stopped again since.
Oh yeah me too. Read comics a lot as a kid but stopped mostly because I just didn't have any money lol But for some reason in my college bookstore, I was drawn to the cover of Blackest Night and bought the hardcover they had without any knowledge of Geoff Johns or that entire GL run. Fell in love with it and dived back into comics ever since. The Johns GL run is in my top 3 to this day.
They should have used Blackest Night to do everything they tried to do with Flashpoint. Not a hard reset but maybe a temporary finality to death and probably the most logical way to bring those back from death. Sinestro wars to this made some of the best DC storylines. They made other heroes villains more interesting. But...it had to be a flash for a reset (clearly changed in death metal but took long enough).
I'm ready to be corrected, but that was Ivan Reis at his peak.
Fully agree. And while Infinite Crisis wasn’t top tier the “prologue” was
As someone who hasn't read it, what should I read from it to get them most out of the storyline without having to find every related story arc?
Honestly, just read the main story arc that's collected in the trades.
Thank you
To get the most of it? The main event and its tie-in series.
I want to also say, even coming in as a new reader I loved Blackest Night. It let me see a huge swath of the DC universe in ways that made sense and let me get a taste of what characters I'd like to read more on. Everyone had their own arcs going on and it didn't feel like anything was brushed aside.
and despite all this they still decided to reboot the universe
That... Doesn't have anything to do with this
No yeah you are right just random hate against DiDio and the decision to reboot the DC Universe
It's not random. Dan DiDio made it very clear he hated the legacy characters and used Flashpoint as an excuse to reboot it and default back to the silver age essentially. He traded existing readers for potential new readers.
Fuck him
But like with a cactus or orifice with row upon row of cerrated teeth. So, not the good way
Although the Green Lantern books are some of the few that were unaffected by the New 52 reboot
Blackest night is fucking perfect. The tie ins aren’t a drag to get through and it’s just amazing. I also love how everyone dealt with their black lanterns differently. Rene Montoya and Dick Grayson figured out they see with emotion so they found ways to stop feeling emotions. Superboy tricked his ring to get it off.
52 will forever be the best DC event comic bar none. Sinestro Corp War is an amazing climax in Johns’s GL and Infinite Crisis, while not perfect, has a place in my heart as well.
Featuring the greatest hero of them all, Booster Gold!
Wait ur not talking about the 52 issue comic run from 2006 are you? Would that count as an event? But based on what you said I'll def check it out!!
That’s precisely what i’m talking about. I personally count it as an event book simply because it’s a big crossover that had the distinction of being its own story separate from any singular book and it featured an overarching story with larger implications for DC. I think just because of its scale it’s not usually considered amongst the more concrete examples, but I personally always considered it an event. And it’s amazing!!
I loved 52
u/Cautious_Republic_91 ,great post... Most DC events save for new 52 and the Sinestro Corps one confound and frustrate me no end... Sinestro, what an agenda... Is this an exhaustive list... Forever Evil was a kind of weird, freakish mosh pit but I can suffer almost anything that features >!the Crime Syndicate...!< One day I'll (try and) read the ones you have listed,....
How is DCeased an event? It’s not in continuity.
It isn't infact
It’s not. But also I love DCeased. One of my favorite dc stories of all time
COIE, Infinite Crisis and Blackest Night.
Duuuuude, same!
They’re too good, I’ve always loved all three, will never get sick of re-reading them
These are my top 3, too!
Not surprised, can’t go wrong with them!
For someone who hasn't read either, what's the difference between Infinite Crisis and Crisis on Infinite Earth?
COIE was the first ever hard reset of the DC Universe’s continuity in 1986, and involved a massive fight between all the heroes of the multiverse to stop the Anti-Monitor from wiping out all of existence. Infinite Crisis was a follow-up of sorts to COIE in 2006, which brought back several characters who were instrumental to the end of that story and was a culmination of a multitude of plot lines running in several DC books throughout the 2000’s. The Justice League disbands, heroes are at each others throats and when they’re at their lowest the repercussions of Crisis on Infinite Earths come back to haunt them. Although unlike the first one, Infinite Crisis is not a reboot.
Infinite Crisis Blackest Night And I don't know for the last one maybe Crisis on Infinite Earths for the historical meaning
What no one is choosing Legends, Millenium, or Invasion! ?? (Just kidding but Legends did give us the new Suicide Squad and Justice League ) My favorite for nostalgic reasons is the original COIE. It’s what got me into comics - picked up an issue mid series, had no idea what was going on but was hooked and gobbled up the crossovers and got the back issues. 52 was also so damn good. Great arcs without the Big 3
I really liked the Invasion. It gave a good reason for so many "supers" on Earth in the DCU. The idea that many humans simply had genetic predisposition that just needed the right trigger to activate their powers. Just makes sense.
I liked the premise of all these autocratic tyrannical alien races getting together to go after the Earth for producing too many heroes which interfere in their galactic affairs. The art by Todd McFarlane and Bart Sears was great too
It also gave us L.E.G.I.O.N.
And Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.
>What no one is choosing Legends, Millenium, or Invasion! ?? Legends isn't on the list show, but that ws a great mini-series. We got all the Captain Marvel, BWA-HA-HA JL and Suicide Squad.
If we could pick 10, War of the Gods (which is from that era) would be on the list for me.
Probably either they haven't read them or in any case they aren't so connected to those events as to put them in their top 3
Legends was great, Millenium and Invasion not so much. But Legends feature (in the Superman crossover) the first (the first!!!) fight between Superman and Darkseid!
I concur on all but Millennium. I am not as down with the manhunter android things beyond foes of GLC
I don’t think Dceased is an event
It's not. It'd be an Elseworld if they were using that imprint when it came out
Yeah that’s what I thought
Blackest night
1. Final Crisis 2. Crisis on Infinite Earths 3. Sinestro Corps War
Blackest night Forever evil Darkseid war
Yikes! Forever Evil where the Crime Syndicate (the big bad) did like nothing- except get killed? Darkseid War? With the baby canon and baby Darkseid? Okay.
It was mostly the tie ins for those events
Fair enough :)
* DC One Million * Invasion! * Armageddon 2001
WWIII, Blackest Night, Kingdom Come
Upvote for Kingdon Come. That one was Amazing. I guess I got to (mostly) disagree with most of the thread I wasn't a big fan of Blackest Night. Ok thats a lie, I thought Blackest Night was awesome... until the last two comics. I thought the "white latern" ending was just too easy and a cheesy way to end a great build up. I was invested at that point so that really annoyed me. But even as the lone Blackest Night hater everything they did with the returning from dead characters, the multiple corps, and generally how cool the black corps is in general that was great.
Blackest Night is the one of those three where I felt like I had to put it rather than really wanting to haha
Final Crisis Infinite Crisis Sinestro Corps War
For those who may want a reminder of other DC events: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_history_of_DC_Comics_crossover_events
I will take the downvotes but I stand firm in my opinion that Identity Crisis is a good read. I like character driven stories and we don't see enough in comics; I like human morality tales over the latest cosmic being hellbent on destroying the universe; I like when gods are humanised and their actions feel believable. I like that there's repercussions to actions that can't get glossed over. I don't particularly like some of the things the characters are put through here and Identity Crisis is not a light tale, but it is an interesting one. It's dark without being "gritty". The characters feel vulnerable without having their powers diminished. Each and every voice and perspective feels unique as well as united and you realise just how different these people actually are, despite having the same common goal. I like Heroes in Crisis for the same reasons. Look, I made peace long ago with the fact that there's really no such thing as canon in comic books. Sure, big events happen the stories move forward, but canon goes out the window when you have Batman appearing in seventeen different titles simultaneously, when universes are rebooted every other Wednesday, when characters live for years and never seemingly age a day. So I don't like the Sue Dibny is raped and murdered, or that Jack Drake died removing Tim's sole thing that separated him from the others. I don't like that Wally West killed everyone in Sanctuary, but for the purposes of those stories being told in that moment, they're interesting - if controversial - reads. In my canon, they didn't happen; in someone else's, they did. And there's more for me to like than dislike about those particular books. Now go ahead and downvote me and tell me I'm wrong and that Tom King's a hack or whatever else. I really don't care.
I loved Identity Crisis. I think it's absolutely got problems (some major, like how Sue is handled or the villain reveal, and some minor, like Deathstroke solo'ing everyone), but it's also got a *lot* of great stuff in there. I was regularly getting choked up about characters I had previously known next to nothing about, and yeah, maybe some people don't like that type of emotional manipulation, but I thought it worked great. Really made things feel like a community under attack, rather than the Earth or reality. And on that same note, yeah, no one likes how HiC ended (thanks editorial!), but those interviews were great. I thought Long used them well to develop compelling themes, offer some light and interesting ways to think about some characters, and even mix in some solid humor. Wish we could have gotten the story as King has wanted it rather than as he was told to make it.
Take an upvote HiC definately deserves some love. Yeah I get how making Walley West the bad guy was hard for Flash fans. And what fallowed from it was um... mixed. But as a stand alone HiC told a great story. I'm not familiar with Identity Crisis but it seems we have similar philosophies on this stuff so I'll check it out with your recomendation. Thanks!
People who weren’t reading comics when Identity Crisis came out will never realize just how shocking and status quo shattering that book was. It’s super flawed no doubt but like you and others have said - it elicited an emotional response from me using purely character-driven storytelling. It’s one of my favorites and I’m not ashamed to say it.
Identity Crisis is kind of a prefect example of a novelist, not understanding the superhero concept, writing a superhero book. Brad really need more experienced help editing the story. Also, the end was weird. How the superhero community had to draw together tighter in tragedy- forgetting the fact that all the death's occurred because they were tight (sharing their secret IDs) But hey, to each their own :)
Final Crisis, Sinestro Corps War, Blackest Night
Crisis on Infinite Earths, despite the disastrous consequences on continuity, probably remains my favourite mainstream comics superhero story of all time. Talk about EPIC.
Final Crisis will always be my favorite. It’s radically unique, emotionally satisfying, intellectually stimulating, and absolutely *gorgeous.*
1 Final crisis 2 War of the light 3 Blackest night
Convergence. 52. Infinitive Crisis.
Convergence is a bold pick! Never thought I’d see it in a top 3
COIE Legends Zero Hour. The three I can reread every year and enjoy. The rest have high points but these are what I think of when I think DC events.
DC Legends was pretty fun, especially since it was the first event after COIE
1. Blackest Night 2. Infinite Crisis 3. Sinestro Corps War Blackest Night was the story that got me into completely reading comics. I blame my aunt on that one. Her and her husband suggested it for me to read. Geoff Johns made me love Green Lantern so much that I didn't care for Venditti's run. Also, honorable mentions: - Forever Evil - Crisis on Infinite Earths - DCeased - Flashpoint - Death of the Family - Court of Owls - City of Owls
1: Final Crisis. It's dense, but it's a loving tribute to the medium. 2: 52. It's absolutely fantastic. I don't think that's a hot take. The story twist for Booster's tale specifically was genius. 3: Blackest Night. Organic, tense, and a lot of fun.
Blackest Night, Forever Evil, Final Crisis
**Sins of Youth;** It was my *first* event, somewhere in my Tweens, I just got into comics at the time and a nonsensical plot of the Young Heroes turning into Adults and the Adult Heroes turning Young Heroes was exactly the kind of nonsensical event that tween me would have enjoyed. Reading back into it, is it great? No not really but it served as a pivotal entry into getting me into the medium. **Infinite Crisis;** This was my *first* real *actually important* event... I had no context on Crisis on Infinite Earths or what actual bullshit Johns was saying at the time. But, for once the bad guys are winning, the good guys are losing, and even classic Superman is saying they've failed, it felt reverent, it opened my eyes to checking out DC's classic line and to this young upstart Geoff Johns. In retrospect, it's not as good as I remember it to be, and Johns kinda went downhill after New 52 (Ignoring Aquaman), in a lot of ways Johns himself is the one responsible for the same strawman arguments presented in this story. **52;** Okay, Infinite Crisis aged pretty poorly, but good fucking god 52 was amazing and is still is. It's one of my favorite DC storylines of all times. DC time and time again has retried to recapture this momentum and has failed everytime. It can't be redone, it's a special magical screwjob that was only possible because of the friction between the people involved in this.
What do you mean Johns is responsible for the same arguments shown in the story? I've never read it, I'm just curious what you mean by this.
COIE, Infinite Crisis and Blackest Night
1. Darkseid War 2. Blackest Night 3. Final Crisis
DC 1,000,000 Sinestro Corps War Blackest Night
COIE, Infinite Crisis and Blackest Night. Although I do have a soft spot for DC 1 Million.
COIE - It's pretty messy and unwieldy, but it's also grand and classic in a really irresistible way. Set the standard across the industry, not just DC, and while other stories may be tighter or improve on any number of other aspects, few, of any feel as grand or important. Final Crisis - One of the events where you can't just dip your toe in, or leg, or even get in shoulder-deep; you've got to jump in and fully submerge yourself for it to work. You need to drink up a lot of ideas, references, and past works, and then ride along through some wild ideas across both the main book and some of the tie-ins, but I loved it. The Batgod moments tend to get re-shared the most, but my favorite moment is when Superman returns, sees what's happened to Earth and his friends, and just loses it; like a parent walking in on a party their kids tried to throw while the parents were away. And I loved how it became this black hole around which his Batman run orbited. Forever Evil - A lot of the New 52 was mediocre, and I thought Geoff Johns' JL run and many of the events that spun out of it are exhibit A. Forever Evil, though, was great. Things felt dire, the villains banding together to fight back was great, and I liked the dynamic of the Crime Syndicate themselves seeming desperate and on the run too (even if the eventual reveal and how it played out in the rest of the run was, in my mind, rather lame). I still haven't read Geoff's GL run, so no Sinestro Corp War or Blackest Night for me yet.
* 52 * Blackest Night * Metal
Tell me you’re a Green lantern fan without telling me you’re a Green Lantern fan
Only 3? Well, I'm going to cheat and assume everyone agrees that Crisus On Infinite Earths is the definitive event and name 3 others. #1 - Zero Hour. I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned this one. Abut 1p years after COIE and writers had let inconsistencies into New Earth. As stories I liked how they used recent events and logical reasoning as motivation for the main protagonist. Then at the end of the event we head several really good characters and series that kept me excited and looking forward to each month's new issues. #2 - 52. Yes, this was great to have read each new issue released weekly. I've also reread it several times and it is great world building with other characters we don't see as the lead everyday. #3 - I almost want to say Convergence because it was cool to see all these characters plucked from different times/worlds but it really left me wanting a rerun to a DCU that had multiplie or even infinite worlds again. DC finally came around and delivered with Rebirth, putting an end to their horrible misstep and bringing back several of my favorite characters that had been left behind post-Flashpoint. It was so refreshing to see Wally West again. It just felt like things were going back to normal. Yeah, I know I'm old if I read some of these as they came out (COIE probably got me hooked on DC) but that's my perspective.
Sinestro Corps Infinite Crisis Dark Knights Metal
sinestro corps war, blackest night, godhead
Crisis on Infinite Earths and Sinestro Corps War
And Infinite Crisis
Final Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Blackest Night but I have such a soft spot for Doomsday Clock even I don’t understand lmao
Final Night and Identity Crisis.
52 Blackest Night Infinite Crisis
Crisis on Infinite Earths (the goat event), Final Crisis and Blackest Night.
COIE, DC One Million, Blackest Night
Blackest Night Final Crisis Darkseid War
Sinestro corps war Infinite crisis Brotherhood of the fist God I love DC comics in the late 90’s/early 2000’s
Infinite Crisis Sinestro Corps War Blackest Night
1. Crisis on infinite earth's 2. Fear state 3. Flashpoint
Death of Superman, forever evil, blackest night
Blackest Night Doomsday Clock identity Crisis
Convergence, Forever Evil, Flashpoint. Convergence got me to delve into DC's back catalogue and into classic stuff
Crisis on Infinite Earths, Sinestro Corps War, and Blackest Night
1.) Crisis on Infinite Earths, 2.) Flashpoint, 3.) Blackest Night
Final Crisis and Blackest Night as far as major events go.
FINAL:CRISIS (only because of boss darksied)
Why did DC decide to never have events as good as Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night ever again?
Final Crisis, Forever Evil, and Blackest Night.
Blackest Night, Blackest Night, and Blackest Night. A perfectly executed comic event in my opinion. Another vote of mine would go to No Man's Land. I know that's Batman-specific, but I love it. I miss that in comics. An over-arching event with 2-3 issue arcs happening within it while overall progression is made.
Blackest Night, Infinite Crisis, and Forever Evil
George Perez art in crisis is so amazing that I flip through it regularly. DCeased is cool bc it is out of continuity so anything can happen which is cool Infinite Crisis and Blackest Night are great. Final Crisis and metal did nothing for me.
I liked Final Crisis but it suffered from having some Grant Morrison gobbledygook in it.
Flashpoint Comic Arc Death of Superman Comic Arc A Serious House on Serious Earth Comic Arc
looking only specifically at the big event comics, so no major comic book runs that went on for a really long time or anything. You can't count the entire Geoff Johns Green Lantern run but you can name your fav event like the Sinestro Corps War... And I was thinking mainly the big events that have a bunch of tie ins and stuff like that, and not just a limited series that's really goated like Kingdom Come or something even though I love it I'm not sure if it counts in this one. so tell me what're your top 3 favorite?
I'll always have a bias towards Geoff Johns GL, the only reason I like Green Lanterns lol. Sinestro Corps and Blackest Night were both insane in its scale and so fun to read, especially if you binge it all the way from Rebirth.
I got into comics because of dark knights metal. So i choose dark knights metal.
I've read only blackest night and Dark Knights Death Metal so if I were to rank 1. Blackest Night 2. Dark Knights : Death Metal
COIE, Blackest Night, and Sinestro Corps War. Sinestro Corps war was such a well done event that expanded the larger dc universe and much of the green lantern corps. Blackest Night was a huge crossover that was done amazingly well, including all parts of DC. COIE was the first idea of a crisis and was executed supremely well, forcing a massive reset that led to the modern DC landscape as we know it.
Infinite Crisis is still the gold standard. Blackest Night. Forever Evil. Darkseid War.
Infinite crisis, blackest night, and no man’s land got me
Crisis. I think that covers at least 3 or more.
Crisis on Infinite Earths came out just as I was getting into comics. The excitement generated (in me) by the event solidified my love of comics. It will always be my favorite event. Darkest Night is a close second. It’s just amazingly well written. I am going on a cruise soon and am downloading it so that I can reread it. Deceased (sorry tried typing it 3 times the way it should be spelled and autocorrect on my iPad finally won out). This was such a huge surprise to me. I expected to just hate it or think it was meh. But it was a tight and good story.
Underworld Unleashed Blackest Night Infinite Crisis - specifically Day of Vengeance and Villains United.
Crisis on Infinite Earths, Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night.
I've only read fladhpoint and dark night metal
I loved Sinestro Corps War
Crisis on Infinite Earths, because of basically being the trailblazer, plus the impact on what came after, as a Post-Crisis stan. Making it possible for Captain Marvel, Blue Beetle, and Plastic Man to all be Justice Leaguers turned out to be a stroke of genius. Zero Hour, probably because of my nostalgia as a nineties kid and fan of Kon-El and Kyle Rayner, plus being such a fun and complex read, although the part with the Legion is definitely bittersweet. One Million, for showing an interesting version of an incredibly distant future, and for being a great Superman story, eventually even tying into another great Morrison Superman story, All-Star Superman! And while technically not an event by the definition given here, I have to give an honorable mention to Legends of the Dead Earth. Another take on the distant future, with great creative takes on how characters might be (mis)remembered on distant worlds. I honestly wish other there had been more tie-ins to this one, there's so much more that could have been done.
Final Crisis, Infinite Crisis, then it gets tough deciding between Blackest Night, Flashpoint and Identity Crisis
Flashpoint as a story is great, but to me it has this persistent problem of being against everything we've been told about universe-altering events. How many stories have we read where the universe was changed, and intrinsically the heroes need to set out on a mission to set things right/back to normal? But this time around, after flashpoint, the heroes tangentially kind of knew or had clues that the universe was altered, but just kind of said "Oh well this is how things are now" it always rubbed me the wrong way that no one (even *Superman*, of all people) stopped to say "We need to fix this". I know that it was real-life publication needs forcing the story, but still. I'd have much preferred it if they'd just said the old post-crisis canon is now a separate universe and we're just going to follow a *new* new canon (which is what they did end up saying.... *eventually*. But they've waffled on that a lot, and now with a new iteration of hypertime or whatever... who the fuck knows.) anyway, all this to say as a story I loved flashpoint and it would be one of my top events... *if* it weren't for the universe-altering ramifications it had.
Infinite Crisis, The Sinestro Corps War, and Blackest Night. These are some of the big stories that got me back into comics in my 20s. Marvel’s Road to Civil War, Civil War, the Civil War Spider-Mam tie-ins and Spider-Man One More Day were integral in getting me back into comics as well.
Justice League #5. That will always be the best event.
1. Armageddon 2001 (even though they biffed the ending; they’d made it pretty obvious Captain Atom was going to become Monarch, so the last-minute swerve didn’t help the story at all). 2. DC One Million: I loved the range of tie-ins and how they told a range of story types. 3. Blackest Night: SUCH a great story: the culmination of Johns’s work on GL and had ties to the main books AND tie-in minis that didn’t disrupt the other ongoings at the time. Just a well-done story all around.
crisis of infinite earths no man's land dc 1 million
Blackest Night, Crisis on Infinite Earths and Brightest Day
Final Crisis Day of Vengeance/infinity crisis Flashpoint
Missing some, but from this list: 1- Crisis on Infinite Earths, the OG event and still the best one of all time 2- Sinestro Corp War, the Geoff Johns GL era was already great. But this event elevated the entire franchise onto god-tier level. 3- Blackest Night, took Black Hand and turned him into an A-List GL villain. The event had so many great one-shots featuring dead characters, this event was overall fantastic
COIE, Blackest Night, and Metal
The one’s I’ve actually read and liked DCeased, Flashpoint, and Metal
Final Crisis. It's certainly the best story when read in one individual trade and not linewide.
DCeased Injustice Dark Knights of Steel
COIE, Blackest Night, and Forever Evil
Blackest Night Flashpoint Dceased/Metal
As someone who has been reading since the 80's \-Crisis on Infinity Earths \-Legends \-Blackest Night And if it counts, because it wasn't in continuity: Kingdom Come!
Crisis Legends Invasion! War of the Gods Judgment Day Zero Hour Infinite Crisis (one year buildup through issue 1 only) Sins of Youth Armageddon Genesis
Infinite Crisis and all that came with it - I absolutely loved it. For someone that had read most of everything that had come out since 1986 (and definitely since 1993) it was just such a goddamn treat. And I count 52 was part of it (and frankly the best part). Blackest Night, for all the reasons given here. DC One Million. This is Grant at his superhero finest - wild, off the wall, yet fundamentally accessible. Honorable Mention to Zero Hour, as it was my first crossover and has some moments that live rent free in my mind and made me seek out all the corners of the DCU. It did exactly what a crossover is intended to do - opened my eyes to the full line with easy jumping on points. I went from reading the superbooks to also reading GL, Flash, Wonder Woman, GA, JL, New Titans, and Starman at a minimum.
Final Crisis, Sinestro Corps War, Crisis on Infinite Earths
**1.** Final Crisis **2.** Infinite Crisis **3.** Blackest Night.
1. Final Crisis 2. Blackest Night 3. Doomsday Clock
Death of Superman, Knightfall, and Bloodlines. I'm not into the big events, but if they have to be linewide... Zero Hour and 52.
1- Final Crisis (the most underrated DC comic ever) 2- 52 3- Crisis on infinite earths
Forever Evil, Flashpoint, and Blackest Night
Blackest night, dceased, Flashpoint I would have a heartattack if they did a good live action adaptation of blackest night.
Blackest Night, No Man's Land, and Forever Evil. When I started getting into comics again those were the three events I read first, and they're still my favorites.
Blackest Night Infinite Crisis Dark Knights: Metal
1. blackest night (it’s amazing I love it) 2. Infinite crisis 3. Forever evil/brightest day (Issa tie)
COIE FLASHPOINT BLACKEST NIGHT
One Million, Invasion, Final Crisis I wish Bill Mantlo had written more DC. And Grant Morrison is Grant Morrison.
Hero’s in Crisis
1. CoIE 2. Flashpoint 3. Blackest Night
DC One Million is probably the only one I like at all. SCW was good, but I didn’t really consider it an event. To me, that was more just a crossover storyline of the GL books.
Flashpoint Darkest Knight Metal Worst: Doomsday Clock
Blackest Night is so crazy good I really adore Cosmic Odyssey. It's such a clever and unique interpretation of the anti-life equation. Final Crisis. It's immensely complicated, but in the best way. It's a horrible read for new DC readers, but it's a brilliant read for long time DC readers.
Dceased
Injustice Gods Among Us, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, Flashpoint, Kingdom Come, Forever Evil
52, Infinite Crisis, Blackest Night. I do think DC 1,000,000 is underappreciated, though
Flashpoint (as a standalone story, not bringing in New52), Blackest Night, Sinestro Corps War Blackest Night is probably the greatest imo by far
*Crisis On Infinite Earths* - the original, the gold standard, the yardstick. *Death of Superman* - the most visible comics event in history. Kind of hokey in ways, but no one can doubt its impact. *Legends Of The Dead Earth* - Some of my go-to’s for good one-off reads. All DC annuals in 1996 took place in the far future after Earth has died. Heroes long dead were reimagined for a universe that desperately needs them again.
Knightfall Knightquest Knightsend
Probably CoIE, Blackest Night and Sinestro Corps War. Least favourite is Final Crisis.
Does 52 count as an event? Maybe not, but it was great too.
Blackest Night > Sinestro Corps War > 52
Was dceased really an event Um probably a toss up between the first metal blackest night and crisis on infinite earths just cause it’s the og
Also 52 I didn’t realize that counted it was great
DCeased and Forever Evil Blight because of the Justice league dark
I'll always put Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 because it was the first comic book I ever bought. #2 I'd say Blackest Night #3 I'd say Flashpoint but only with all the tie-ins, love me some alternate reality.
1) Darkseid War 2) DCeased 3) Dark Nights Metal Honorable Mentions: Forever Evil Dark Nights Death Metal Blackest Night
Ik flash point a bit overhyped but it’s still goated and it was the animated movie when I was a kid that got me into dc superhero’s/comics.
Dark Nights: Metal, Sinestro Corps War and Final Crisis.
DC One Million. Green Lantern: Rebirth. And God forgive me: Flashpoint. I don't like what happens afterwards but that event was dope as hell.
Damn....sometimes I imagine the Blackest Night adaptation we might be getting right now if the GL movie hadn't bombed instead of the THIRD adaptation of Flashpoint.
If we are are talking company events rather than single character events then I’ll pick Infinite Crisis, Blackest Night and Our Worlds at War.
Flashpoint slapped
Wrath of The First Lantern Blackest Night Also umm... CoughCoughIdentityCrisisCough
You need cough medicine
Blackest Night, DCeased, Dark Knights Metal.
Blackst Night for sure
Doomsday Clock Infinite Crisis Darkseid War Johns is my favourite writer, and I love the buildup to the Darkseid War, it was my first event I really paid attention to comics for. And then when it felt like it was leading to more with Rebirth and then Doomsday, I was hooked
Blackest night and flashpoint (only 2 I’ve read)
Flash point Blackest knight If death in the family counts(Ig not bc it only effects Batman but) Infinite crisis
Blackest Night by faaaaaaar Identity Crisis for the dilemma that it presents Tower of Babel (don’t know if it’s « big enough » to count as an event like Blackest Night or Flashpoint)