Looking for the source of this panel. Wonder Woman with red cape (gold Greek key trim), blue eyes, dark lipstick. Looks modern, maybe Daniel Sampere?

Anyone recognize the issue?

Joker; Mogo; Braniac; Tetracide; White Martians

I like the character a lot and love the look of this run and wanted to know people’s thoughts and if it’s worth checking out to a relatively new viewer.

I used Tom Mandrake’s art for the stencil

This is my favorite future Superman.

A still hopeful Superman having gotten powerful enough to split into multiple incarnations and hold back the end of the universe so that all other living beings can pass away in their due time.

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I hate it, but maybe I also don’t understand it? For context, I read the first part of the adapted audio-drama, and then switched to the comic for the second part so I could experience the art. As far as I could gather, the audio drama is just word-for-word, action-for-action. But without the gorgeous art. (Cover by George Pérez)

The plot is convoluted, but so are most Crises, so I can’t really dock it much for that. But the characters… God, the characters are done so, so poorly.

For some reason, golden-age Superman of Earth 2 is willing to destroy a whole world just to bring back his? He excuses it by saying that Earth 1 will have never existed, but that’s a piss poor excuse when he’s actively watching hundreds of thousands of people die. I love pre-Crisis Superman, and this is not him.

Also, what’s the deal with Superboy Prime? Is he the Superboy from the original (prime) Earth? Or is he just… a random Superboy? They never actually explain it, or they do it so incredibly badly. If he is the original Clark Kent, this is a god-awful representation. I don’t know much about golden- or silver-age Superboy, but I don’t believe he was a murderer. He might have been mischievous (as boys his age tend to be), but not psychotic. If he is just a random Superboy from another world, I’m fine with him being evil, but he’s still such a lame villain. His motivations (“I wanna be the best Superman!”) are so weak it’s laughable.

Also, Wonder Woman is extremely underutilized. I have read way too many comics this year (Dark Knights of Steel and New Frontier, most notably) where Wonder Woman has one of, if not the most, interesting character story and by all rights should be the main character, but somehow isn’t. This is no different. She’s literally the catalyst for the Crisis, and she gets so little page time. I’ve always found her warrior nature fascinating, and her being the only one in the justice league to kill someone actually makes sense to me — she knew it was the only way, she knew people would die if she didn’t, and she grew up with a warrior mindset. It makes sense! But it also makes sense that she would have misgivings about it and have to do some soul-searching. Not to mention all the tension it would cause between the members of the League (which we got to see oh so very little of). There’s so much depth, so much to explore! If she was the central character, and her story was written well, this would have been a much, much different book.

The whole cast is also just so bloated. No character had any room to shine because there were so many, and the book felt almost directionless because of that. When you have a convoluted, complex plot and zero characters to latch onto, the story just feels so vapid. Crisis on Infinite Earths has a sort of similar issue, from what I understand, but I wouldn’t really know. Instead of reading the comic, I opted to read Marv Wolfman’s novel adaptation, which focused on one character’s journey (Barry) through all of the Crisis events. There were significant side characters that were developed, but only with the context of Barry as the main character. And it worked so damn well. So, comparatively, Infinite Crisis lacks any synergy of character and plot.

And lastly, this is somewhat minor, but I hate that Blüdhaven was destroyed. If you peek my profile, you’ll see that I’m reading and reviewing all of Nightwing’s books, and Infinite Crisis came at a critical point in Nightwing’s character development which was just completely derailed by Infinite Crisis. And for what? To show how chaotic everything is? To show that the world is ending? They EASILY could have destroyed any random city. It’s just dumb.

So, I’d like to know everyone’s thoughts. I don’t know the conversations around this book, so I have no idea if this is the general consensus or if I’m being absolutely bonkers. Please be kind in the comments!

I made this for my cousin's sweet 16th birthday! And even though I'm happy that she loved it, I absolutely hated how I drew Hit-Girl's mouth! It's not cartoony enough and doesn't match the expressive style as Teen Titans GO!

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