They say the Crisis will end tomorrow!

If the rumors (and scheduled release dates) are true, DC's Infinite Crisis #7 comes out tomorrow - with bonus pages even! As much as I REALLY looked forward to this sorta-sequeal to Crisis on Infinite Earths from back in the 80s, I have to say it's sort of been a confusing let down. Few big secrets have been revealed, and it almost looks like it's going to be sort of anti-climatic on the multiversal scale.

In the first Crisis they promised "Worlds will live, worlds will die, and the universe will never be the same!" And we got just that - LOTS of worlds died, and some got merged. Sure, it made a bit of a mess of continuity, but that's sort of fun. Sure, it took away the multiverse, and that really sucked. In a world of comic books where people can fly, walk through walls, shoot beams from their eyes, and more, why would you want to limit your palette of options?! Oh well - that was 20 yrs ago... Loved it!

In this new "Infinite Crisis," sometimes it's about the big deep issues that have come up between the big three - Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman. And sometimes it's about realizing there was a Crisis some time before and how things have changed since, etc. Most of the series is about "trying to get things back the way they were" or "trying to make the perfect world." But there's so many side stories going on that are unrelated (yeah yeah, even if they were concocted by the major bad guys in this series) that it just doesn't gel very well.

We've gotten to see a bunch of characters that rarely surface anymore, but heck, they can do that in any comic (remember "A World Without Adults" in Young Justice). The big heroes can not agree with each other's action - eh, happens often enough. But something played out as being THIS big should certainly be a little more cohesive in it's big storylines, and make you wonder what's really going to happen when it's all over.

Instead we're getting One Year Later stories starting in the various DC titles BEFORE Infinite Crisis wraps up due to shipping problems. Major boo boo! And it really doesn't LOOK like there's going to be a multiverse afterwards - not even a drastically (or slightly?) altered universe that the characters live in.

I'm losing my focus here...(funny, since that's what I'm griping about with this miniseries!) And I guess I won't really know what all's happening until #7 shows up. Wonder if it'll really be out tomorrow?! Finger's crossed!