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Convergence #1.1
Convergence: Infinite Earths, Book One
A CONVERGENCE tie-in graphic novel, starring heroes from CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS—and RED SON!
Once, there were infinite Earths. Then there came a Crisis…a Zero Hour…a Flashpoint. Worlds lived. Worlds died. But some worlds must now fight for their future—in the Convergence!
The evil alien intelligence known as Brainiac has stolen 50 doomed cities from throughout time and space and sealed them behind impenetrable domes. Now, after a year, the domes will come down—and the heroes and villains of 50 dead worlds must battle to be the last one standing!
In this
ACTION The Superman and Power Girl of Earth-2 must stand together against the Wonder Woman of a different Earth the totalitarian world of Red Son!
DETECTIVE Dick Grayson and Helena Wayne—Robin and the Huntress—battle for the Batman’s legacy against Red Son’s Soviet Superman…and each other!
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF Earth-2’s original heroes regain their youth to fight the antimatter universe’s Weaponers of Qward—but at what cost?
INFINITY To save their world, Earth-2’s young heroes must defeat a man who’s already survived the end of his the post-apocalyptic Jonah Hex!
WORLD’S As the Seven Soldiers of Victory ride to war against the Weaponers of Qward, cartoonist Scribbly Jibbet must tell their tale…or die trying!
The heroes and villains of one of comics’ most beloved worlds—the pre-Crisis Earth-2—take on characters from the acclaimed Elseworlds tale RED SON and more in INFINITE EARTHS BOOK 1!
Once, there were infinite Earths. Then there came a Crisis…a Zero Hour…a Flashpoint. Worlds lived. Worlds died. But some worlds must now fight for their future—in the Convergence!
The evil alien intelligence known as Brainiac has stolen 50 doomed cities from throughout time and space and sealed them behind impenetrable domes. Now, after a year, the domes will come down—and the heroes and villains of 50 dead worlds must battle to be the last one standing!
In this
ACTION The Superman and Power Girl of Earth-2 must stand together against the Wonder Woman of a different Earth the totalitarian world of Red Son!
DETECTIVE Dick Grayson and Helena Wayne—Robin and the Huntress—battle for the Batman’s legacy against Red Son’s Soviet Superman…and each other!
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF Earth-2’s original heroes regain their youth to fight the antimatter universe’s Weaponers of Qward—but at what cost?
INFINITY To save their world, Earth-2’s young heroes must defeat a man who’s already survived the end of his the post-apocalyptic Jonah Hex!
WORLD’S As the Seven Soldiers of Victory ride to war against the Weaponers of Qward, cartoonist Scribbly Jibbet must tell their tale…or die trying!
The heroes and villains of one of comics’ most beloved worlds—the pre-Crisis Earth-2—take on characters from the acclaimed Elseworlds tale RED SON and more in INFINITE EARTHS BOOK 1!
272 pages, Paperback
First published November 3, 2015
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He has also worked as a victim advocate for Victims Assistance of Westchester, a not-for-profit organization that helps victims of crime.
He has held various jobs including, fossil hunting, microphotography of 20 million year old insects and plants trapped in amber, seminars and exhibitions on the cleaning, mining and identification of prehistoric insects for the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian. He traveled to the mountains of the Dominican Republic and mined amber.
He has also worked as a victim advocate for Victims Assistance of Westchester, a not-for-profit organization that helps victims of crime.
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April 12, 2022
(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: Five deep-end drops, some float, most flop, on average fine but seldom fun, though decent ones, none hit home runs.
Notes: Five deep-end drops, some float, most flop, on average fine but seldom fun, though decent ones, none hit home runs.
August 20, 2016
A couple of good stories with good art, good stories with bad art, and a couple of bad stories with nondescript art.
June 8, 2017
This is basically some random stories from the D.C. Convergence "mega-event". I view this much like a Marvel What If" or DC's "Elseworlds" stories.
There are a few different stories that make up this collection. It collects Action Comics and Detective Comics for a Robin (in a stupid Bat/Robin mishmash costume) and Huntress fighting the Superman from the Red Son world (he's a Soviet). This story is a 3/5 and decent.
Then we see a collection of Justice Society of America story which is also not bad at all-3/5
The rest is junk (at least to me). A poorly illustrated and even poorer story about Infinity Inc. The only slightly cool thing is the Post-Apocalyptic Jonah Hex. Still didn't like this story- 1/5
The final story is from the World's Finest and looks at the Seven Soldiers of Victory. This is an ok story-2/5
All in all this is a collection of stories set in the Convergence events. Some of the first stories are good. The rest isn't very good. Only read this is you consider yourself a huge fan of any of the titles listed. Me? I'm done with Convergence for now.
There are a few different stories that make up this collection. It collects Action Comics and Detective Comics for a Robin (in a stupid Bat/Robin mishmash costume) and Huntress fighting the Superman from the Red Son world (he's a Soviet). This story is a 3/5 and decent.
Then we see a collection of Justice Society of America story which is also not bad at all-3/5
The rest is junk (at least to me). A poorly illustrated and even poorer story about Infinity Inc. The only slightly cool thing is the Post-Apocalyptic Jonah Hex. Still didn't like this story- 1/5
The final story is from the World's Finest and looks at the Seven Soldiers of Victory. This is an ok story-2/5
All in all this is a collection of stories set in the Convergence events. Some of the first stories are good. The rest isn't very good. Only read this is you consider yourself a huge fan of any of the titles listed. Me? I'm done with Convergence for now.
May 18, 2018
Convergence is a two-month weekly comic book event that cumulates the weekly series Earth 2: World's End and The New 52: Futures End maxi-series. This trade paperback pits Pre-Crisis characters against various worlds, including the Red Sun universe, the Hex Timeline, and the Weaponers of Qward and collects five of the forty tie-in issues: Convergence: Action Comics #1–2, Convergence: Detective Comics #1–2, Convergence: Justice Society of America #1–2, Convergence: Infinity Inc. #1–2, and Convergence: World's Finest #1–2.
Convergence: Action Comics is a two-part tie-in written by Justin Gray and penciled by Claude St-Aubin and Sean Parsons. The issue opens with telling of the ordinary lives of Clark Kent (Superman), Lois Lane, Karen Starr (Power Girl), and Andrew Vinson of Earth-Two and the Superman, Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor from the Red Son universe – until it wasn't, the dome went down, the challenged issued by Telos and powers returning to those who had powers before the dome went up.
Karen Starr now Power Girl flies for a reconnaissance mission when she is attacked by an invisible jet. Power Girl managed to see the jet with her powers and took it down and was surprised to see Wonder Woman piloting it. A battle ensues between Power Girl and Wonder Woman – they are evenly matched until Power Girl was distracted. Clark Kent now as Superman stopped the fight between the two, saying that as heroes, we shouldn't be used to commit evil. So, the three of them team-up and took down a newly coup d'état from Lex Luthor, who has moments earlier taken over from Joseph Stalin.
Convergence: Detective Comics is a two-part tie-in written by Len Wein and penciled by Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz. The issue opens with the retelling of the lives of Dick Grayson as Robin and Helena Wayne as Huntress of Earth-Two in Metropolis and Superman of the Red Sun universe as the year progress living under the dome in four-month increments. Until the dome came down, the challenge is issued by Telos, and powers return to those who lost them.
While Robin wanted to parley with this Superman knowing that together they couldn't beat him. However, Huntress wasn’t so keen and first she fired missiles from the Batmobile they were in to no avail and then she tried ramming/self-detonating the Batmobile into Superman – again with no avail. It was then that Batman from the Red Sun universe caused a distraction and carried both Robin and Huntress away. He then gives them a small box to help them in the fight with his Superman. Superman eventually finds them and while each attack didn't work – Robin opens the box with Kryptonite inside. While they could have killed this Superman and save the world, Robin relents and throw the Kryptonite away, saying that he was raised by Batman and taught him not to kill. Superman, however, wasn't raised like that, but formed a truce regardless, because they are honorable opponents. Anger, Telos rebukes them and the Moscow from the Red Sun universe disappears. Dick Grayson and Helena Wayne returns to their Metropolis where finally Dick Grayson took on the mantle of Batman.
Convergence: Justice Society of America is a two-part tie-in written by Dan Abnett and penciled by Tom Derenick and Trevor Scott. The issue opens up with an elderly Jay Garrick (The Flash) visiting an elderly comatose Kent Nelson (Doctor Fate) in the hospital. It’s been nearly a year since the dome went up and their powers disappeared. Alan Scott (Green Lantern) is now on the radio encouraging the people of Metropolis and Carter Hall (Hawkman) is a gardener providing food for the masses. Suddenly, Kent Nelson opens his eyes, the dome comes down, the challenged is issue by Telos, and their powers return. Doctor Fate says that he can return their youth to fight the oncoming robot made by the Weaponers of Qward, but only once and after that – they will hasten to their deaths.
Agreeing to the deal, the four elderly Justice Society of America of Earth Two goes out in one spectacular battle against one of the best creations from the Weaponers of Quard. Together they took down the self-repairing robot in a spectacular fashion, they also protecting the citizens who was within the battle zone, and saved their Metropolis. In the end, they used the last of their youth rather well and together they head to the next generation of superhero groups, Infinity Inc., to pass on the torch.
Convergence: Infinity Inc. is a two-part tie-in written by Jerry Ordway and penciled by Ben Caldwell. The issue opens with the telling of the ordinary lives of Infinity Inc., Henry King, Jr. (Brainwave, Jr.), Hippolyta Trevor (Fury), Jennifer-Lynn Hayden (Jade), Norda Cantrell (Northwind), Albert Rothstein (Nuklon), Todd Rice (Obsidian), Hector Hall (Silver Scarab), and Sylvester Pemberton (Star-Spangled Kid). Until the dome went down, the challenged was issued by Telos, and their powers returned. They eventually confronted with Jonah Hex and his Dogs of War from the Hex Timeline.
The battle between Infinity Inc. and Johan Hex and his Dogs of War commence in earnest. The battle is messy with unexpected power spewing forth from the characters I didn't know well – mainly from the Hex Timeline. In the end, they battle ended in a stalemate, which Jonah Hex agreed to. However as they were leaving the Fusion Power plants they were fighting around exploded – whether it was Telos or the weaken structure from the earthquake is unknown or even the survival of Jonah Hex and his Dogs of War. Back at Metropolis, the old guard – the Justice Society of America told their young counterparts that they are retiring and that they would leave the superhero business to them and rechristen the new team as JSA-Infinity.
Convergence: World's Finest is a two-part tie-in written by Paul Levitz and penciled by Jim Fern, Joe Rubinstein, and Shannon Wheeler. The issue opens up with Scribbly Jibbet, a cartoonist and reporter for the Metropolis News. He details the comings and goings of the superheroes in Metropolis, which seem to be plentiful from Superman, Power Girl, The Justice Society, Infinity Inc., and the Seven Soldiers of Victory prior and after the Dome went up. He was with Justin Arthur (Shining Knight) when the dome went down, the challenged issued by Telos, and power returned to those who have lost them.
It is up to the surviving members of the Seven Soldiers of Victory to fight the Weaponers of Qward having Scribbly Jibbet recording it all. The Crimson Avenger and Vigilante fights against the hoard of Weaponers of Qwad, while the Shining Knight has a sword duel with the leader of the Weaponers of Qwad, which he won. With a sword to his neck, the Shining Knight pleads for his opponent to surrender, which he doesn’t and Shining Knight still refuses to kill him. That is when Telos comes up and stop the challenge and sent both the Shining Knight and Scribbly Jibbet back to their Metropolis.
For the most part, I rather liked most of the tie-ins thematic wise with Convergence: World's Finest being the outlier of the five. While the issues follow the same formulaic pattern with most tie-ins in this event – it felt slightly different. However, I couldn't connect with most of the characters in this trade paperback, because I wasn't a huge fan of the Golden Age of Comics, so with the exception of the popular characters the most I couldn't relate to without more research. The penciling is rather inconsistent as well, but that’s par for the course for having so many different pencilers in one trade paperback so the quality and consistency of the penciling would vary.
All in all, Convergence: Infinite Earths, Book One is a somewhat decent collection of tie-ins for the Convergence event. The writing and penciling varies, but that's par for the course for multiple writers and pencilers.
Convergence: Action Comics is a two-part tie-in written by Justin Gray and penciled by Claude St-Aubin and Sean Parsons. The issue opens with telling of the ordinary lives of Clark Kent (Superman), Lois Lane, Karen Starr (Power Girl), and Andrew Vinson of Earth-Two and the Superman, Wonder Woman, Lois Lane, and Lex Luthor from the Red Son universe – until it wasn't, the dome went down, the challenged issued by Telos and powers returning to those who had powers before the dome went up.
Karen Starr now Power Girl flies for a reconnaissance mission when she is attacked by an invisible jet. Power Girl managed to see the jet with her powers and took it down and was surprised to see Wonder Woman piloting it. A battle ensues between Power Girl and Wonder Woman – they are evenly matched until Power Girl was distracted. Clark Kent now as Superman stopped the fight between the two, saying that as heroes, we shouldn't be used to commit evil. So, the three of them team-up and took down a newly coup d'état from Lex Luthor, who has moments earlier taken over from Joseph Stalin.
Convergence: Detective Comics is a two-part tie-in written by Len Wein and penciled by Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz. The issue opens with the retelling of the lives of Dick Grayson as Robin and Helena Wayne as Huntress of Earth-Two in Metropolis and Superman of the Red Sun universe as the year progress living under the dome in four-month increments. Until the dome came down, the challenge is issued by Telos, and powers return to those who lost them.
While Robin wanted to parley with this Superman knowing that together they couldn't beat him. However, Huntress wasn’t so keen and first she fired missiles from the Batmobile they were in to no avail and then she tried ramming/self-detonating the Batmobile into Superman – again with no avail. It was then that Batman from the Red Sun universe caused a distraction and carried both Robin and Huntress away. He then gives them a small box to help them in the fight with his Superman. Superman eventually finds them and while each attack didn't work – Robin opens the box with Kryptonite inside. While they could have killed this Superman and save the world, Robin relents and throw the Kryptonite away, saying that he was raised by Batman and taught him not to kill. Superman, however, wasn't raised like that, but formed a truce regardless, because they are honorable opponents. Anger, Telos rebukes them and the Moscow from the Red Sun universe disappears. Dick Grayson and Helena Wayne returns to their Metropolis where finally Dick Grayson took on the mantle of Batman.
Convergence: Justice Society of America is a two-part tie-in written by Dan Abnett and penciled by Tom Derenick and Trevor Scott. The issue opens up with an elderly Jay Garrick (The Flash) visiting an elderly comatose Kent Nelson (Doctor Fate) in the hospital. It’s been nearly a year since the dome went up and their powers disappeared. Alan Scott (Green Lantern) is now on the radio encouraging the people of Metropolis and Carter Hall (Hawkman) is a gardener providing food for the masses. Suddenly, Kent Nelson opens his eyes, the dome comes down, the challenged is issue by Telos, and their powers return. Doctor Fate says that he can return their youth to fight the oncoming robot made by the Weaponers of Qward, but only once and after that – they will hasten to their deaths.
Agreeing to the deal, the four elderly Justice Society of America of Earth Two goes out in one spectacular battle against one of the best creations from the Weaponers of Quard. Together they took down the self-repairing robot in a spectacular fashion, they also protecting the citizens who was within the battle zone, and saved their Metropolis. In the end, they used the last of their youth rather well and together they head to the next generation of superhero groups, Infinity Inc., to pass on the torch.
Convergence: Infinity Inc. is a two-part tie-in written by Jerry Ordway and penciled by Ben Caldwell. The issue opens with the telling of the ordinary lives of Infinity Inc., Henry King, Jr. (Brainwave, Jr.), Hippolyta Trevor (Fury), Jennifer-Lynn Hayden (Jade), Norda Cantrell (Northwind), Albert Rothstein (Nuklon), Todd Rice (Obsidian), Hector Hall (Silver Scarab), and Sylvester Pemberton (Star-Spangled Kid). Until the dome went down, the challenged was issued by Telos, and their powers returned. They eventually confronted with Jonah Hex and his Dogs of War from the Hex Timeline.
The battle between Infinity Inc. and Johan Hex and his Dogs of War commence in earnest. The battle is messy with unexpected power spewing forth from the characters I didn't know well – mainly from the Hex Timeline. In the end, they battle ended in a stalemate, which Jonah Hex agreed to. However as they were leaving the Fusion Power plants they were fighting around exploded – whether it was Telos or the weaken structure from the earthquake is unknown or even the survival of Jonah Hex and his Dogs of War. Back at Metropolis, the old guard – the Justice Society of America told their young counterparts that they are retiring and that they would leave the superhero business to them and rechristen the new team as JSA-Infinity.
Convergence: World's Finest is a two-part tie-in written by Paul Levitz and penciled by Jim Fern, Joe Rubinstein, and Shannon Wheeler. The issue opens up with Scribbly Jibbet, a cartoonist and reporter for the Metropolis News. He details the comings and goings of the superheroes in Metropolis, which seem to be plentiful from Superman, Power Girl, The Justice Society, Infinity Inc., and the Seven Soldiers of Victory prior and after the Dome went up. He was with Justin Arthur (Shining Knight) when the dome went down, the challenged issued by Telos, and power returned to those who have lost them.
It is up to the surviving members of the Seven Soldiers of Victory to fight the Weaponers of Qward having Scribbly Jibbet recording it all. The Crimson Avenger and Vigilante fights against the hoard of Weaponers of Qwad, while the Shining Knight has a sword duel with the leader of the Weaponers of Qwad, which he won. With a sword to his neck, the Shining Knight pleads for his opponent to surrender, which he doesn’t and Shining Knight still refuses to kill him. That is when Telos comes up and stop the challenge and sent both the Shining Knight and Scribbly Jibbet back to their Metropolis.
For the most part, I rather liked most of the tie-ins thematic wise with Convergence: World's Finest being the outlier of the five. While the issues follow the same formulaic pattern with most tie-ins in this event – it felt slightly different. However, I couldn't connect with most of the characters in this trade paperback, because I wasn't a huge fan of the Golden Age of Comics, so with the exception of the popular characters the most I couldn't relate to without more research. The penciling is rather inconsistent as well, but that’s par for the course for having so many different pencilers in one trade paperback so the quality and consistency of the penciling would vary.
All in all, Convergence: Infinite Earths, Book One is a somewhat decent collection of tie-ins for the Convergence event. The writing and penciling varies, but that's par for the course for multiple writers and pencilers.
August 9, 2016
DC: 'Got Nostalgia for our back catalog characters? We have a cure for that! BAM! Convergence!'
Okay, it's not quite that bad, but honestly there's nothing in here that really justifies its existence. And it's a bad sign when you get more of the plot from the back cover than from reading the entire collection.
The concept of various trapped cities being set against each other for battle is a background that hardly gets used beyond setting. It excuses character interactions as random as that horrible Arena series a few years ago. We get Red Son Superman, a couple variations of Metropolis, and a city from Qward for no obvious reason except as an antagonist, and a weird version of Jonah Hex as well as the unlamented Infinity Inc and the original Seven Soldiers of Victory (who have never been better than the Grant Morrison reboot, which this has nothing in common with). Each two issue series tells a separate story - the only one I got any real enjoyment out of is the JSA one, telling the story of old soldiers fighting one last battle. The others are all pretty forgettable.
And then there's 10 pages of 'background information' that is like a melange of puzzle pieces thrown together and 'explained' in a way that provides no useful info and actually made my head hurt trying to understand why they were there.
I'm not sure where or when this falls into the New 52 storyline (seriously DC, is it that hard to create a timeline for readers somewhere?), but ultimately it doesn't matter. It's part one of a pointless attempt to cash in on legacy fans' memories but doesn't justify its existence at all.
Okay, it's not quite that bad, but honestly there's nothing in here that really justifies its existence. And it's a bad sign when you get more of the plot from the back cover than from reading the entire collection.
The concept of various trapped cities being set against each other for battle is a background that hardly gets used beyond setting. It excuses character interactions as random as that horrible Arena series a few years ago. We get Red Son Superman, a couple variations of Metropolis, and a city from Qward for no obvious reason except as an antagonist, and a weird version of Jonah Hex as well as the unlamented Infinity Inc and the original Seven Soldiers of Victory (who have never been better than the Grant Morrison reboot, which this has nothing in common with). Each two issue series tells a separate story - the only one I got any real enjoyment out of is the JSA one, telling the story of old soldiers fighting one last battle. The others are all pretty forgettable.
And then there's 10 pages of 'background information' that is like a melange of puzzle pieces thrown together and 'explained' in a way that provides no useful info and actually made my head hurt trying to understand why they were there.
I'm not sure where or when this falls into the New 52 storyline (seriously DC, is it that hard to create a timeline for readers somewhere?), but ultimately it doesn't matter. It's part one of a pointless attempt to cash in on legacy fans' memories but doesn't justify its existence at all.
August 29, 2016
Total waste of time. Insanely repetitive. Instantly boring.
Conceptually, it may have seemed like a cool idea, but the execution of these "world vs world" stories falls miles short of its target.
Skip the Convergence tie-in issues and only read the main Convergence storyline.
1/5
Conceptually, it may have seemed like a cool idea, but the execution of these "world vs world" stories falls miles short of its target.
Skip the Convergence tie-in issues and only read the main Convergence storyline.
1/5
May 18, 2024
Convergence: Infinite Earths: Book One
Brainiac's Dome has covered the Moscow of Earth 30, where Stalin has control of the Man of Steel, but even the parallel Earths are feeling the year of powerlessness. As Robin and Huntress are chosen to fight for Earth 2, the Russian Man of Steel makes a strange decision with far reaching consequences.
The attention to detail in these stories is fantastic and the art is second to none.
Brainiac's Dome has covered the Moscow of Earth 30, where Stalin has control of the Man of Steel, but even the parallel Earths are feeling the year of powerlessness. As Robin and Huntress are chosen to fight for Earth 2, the Russian Man of Steel makes a strange decision with far reaching consequences.
The attention to detail in these stories is fantastic and the art is second to none.
October 25, 2015
If there's anything the "New 52" has taught me, it's that any writer who says that backstory crimps their creative juices is a liar. Hence, Exhibit A, which is merely a complete and utter ripoff of "Countdown: Arena".
August 28, 2020
Nawet nie wiedziałem, że Nightwing paradował w stroju pół-batmana pół-robina kiedyś. Fajnie wyszła mobilizacja staruszków z JSA, a Infinity Inc poczytałbym w nowym wydaniu.
September 10, 2017
This Convergence crossover featured the pre-Crisis Earth-2, which I absolutely LOVED when it was still canon. When I read the back cover, I was ecstatic! I looked forward to seeing Superman and Power Girl in action, Robin and the Huntress, the Justice Society, Infinity Inc. (before all the tragedies hit then) and the Seven Soldiers Of Victory. What could be better?
For one thing, the artwork. On the Infinity Inc. story in particular, the artwork was so bad that those beloved characters were unrecognizable. Hair colors were all wrong, everyone was too skinny (except Nuklon) and none of them looked remotely like they were normally drawn during their time. The story was good, but the art sucked so badly it detracted from the writing.
The writer also failed to do proper research. This was Infinity Inc. immediately after their first ten issues. At that time, Obsidian did not identify as gay- that was well off in the character's future. Yet, the writer threw in a suggestion that he was already leaning that direction even though nothing of the kind was established during the entire 53 issue series. Continuity, folks.
The other stories were good. I enjoyed Superman and Power Girl vs. the world of Red Son, and Robin and Huntress meeting that world's Batman. However, more bad research. When the Earth-2 Batman died, his Robin wanted to take over as the Darknight Detective, but Huntress talked him out of it. Here, he didn't want to take over for his fallen mentor and she nagged him to do it. This was supposed to be from that continuity, but again, the writer couldn't be bothered to get it right.
The Justice Society piece was good; I could have stood to see them all though, not just Dr. Fate, Flash, Hawkman and Green Lantern. They were up against the Weaponers of Qwaard; was it too much to ask to see at least a flash panel of the whole Society standing against them? Oh well.
The Seven Soldiers of Victory story was perhaps the best of them all, and the most poignant. The Soldiers had no superhuman powers; only their weapons, their skills and their heroic determination. I liked the use of Scribbly to chronicle their valiant struggle against overwhelming odds (they also had to stand against the Weaponers).
Overall, I liked the characters chosen. I just wish the execution had been better.
For one thing, the artwork. On the Infinity Inc. story in particular, the artwork was so bad that those beloved characters were unrecognizable. Hair colors were all wrong, everyone was too skinny (except Nuklon) and none of them looked remotely like they were normally drawn during their time. The story was good, but the art sucked so badly it detracted from the writing.
The writer also failed to do proper research. This was Infinity Inc. immediately after their first ten issues. At that time, Obsidian did not identify as gay- that was well off in the character's future. Yet, the writer threw in a suggestion that he was already leaning that direction even though nothing of the kind was established during the entire 53 issue series. Continuity, folks.
The other stories were good. I enjoyed Superman and Power Girl vs. the world of Red Son, and Robin and Huntress meeting that world's Batman. However, more bad research. When the Earth-2 Batman died, his Robin wanted to take over as the Darknight Detective, but Huntress talked him out of it. Here, he didn't want to take over for his fallen mentor and she nagged him to do it. This was supposed to be from that continuity, but again, the writer couldn't be bothered to get it right.
The Justice Society piece was good; I could have stood to see them all though, not just Dr. Fate, Flash, Hawkman and Green Lantern. They were up against the Weaponers of Qwaard; was it too much to ask to see at least a flash panel of the whole Society standing against them? Oh well.
The Seven Soldiers of Victory story was perhaps the best of them all, and the most poignant. The Soldiers had no superhuman powers; only their weapons, their skills and their heroic determination. I liked the use of Scribbly to chronicle their valiant struggle against overwhelming odds (they also had to stand against the Weaponers).
Overall, I liked the characters chosen. I just wish the execution had been better.
September 3, 2018
An anthology of stories centered around the preserved pre-Crisis Earth-2 from the Convergence storyline, this is a mixed bag.
- Action Comics: Pits Earth-2 Superman and Power Girl against the Red Son universe. Frankly, the Red Son characters were more interesting than the Earth-2 folks here. I also felt like I was missing something with Power Girl's boyfriend.
- Detective Comics: Pits Earth-2 Robin (back in his weird hybrid costume) and Huntress against the Red Son Superman. Not too bad, but Huntress is uncharacteristically irrational and aggressive (something they even lampshade at the end).
- Justice Society of America: My favorite in the collection. A rejuvenated JSA goes up against the Weaponers of Qward.
- Infinity Inc.: Maybe it's because I don't know these characters well, or the characters from the 1980s Hex comic at all, but this didn't do much for me. Seemed kind of unfinished, too.
- World's Finest: Featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory against the Qwardians. It's OK, but has a major downer ending.
Basically, one weak title (Infinity Inc.), three OK titles with a few good moments (Action Comics, Detective Comics, World's Finest), and one good title (Justice Society). (B)
- Action Comics: Pits Earth-2 Superman and Power Girl against the Red Son universe. Frankly, the Red Son characters were more interesting than the Earth-2 folks here. I also felt like I was missing something with Power Girl's boyfriend.
- Detective Comics: Pits Earth-2 Robin (back in his weird hybrid costume) and Huntress against the Red Son Superman. Not too bad, but Huntress is uncharacteristically irrational and aggressive (something they even lampshade at the end).
- Justice Society of America: My favorite in the collection. A rejuvenated JSA goes up against the Weaponers of Qward.
- Infinity Inc.: Maybe it's because I don't know these characters well, or the characters from the 1980s Hex comic at all, but this didn't do much for me. Seemed kind of unfinished, too.
- World's Finest: Featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory against the Qwardians. It's OK, but has a major downer ending.
Basically, one weak title (Infinity Inc.), three OK titles with a few good moments (Action Comics, Detective Comics, World's Finest), and one good title (Justice Society). (B)
January 22, 2023
This collection of a DC era fighting other DC eras was better than the other one I read, but still seems pretty pointless. It's difficult to put any kind of depth into two issue miniseries that all follow the same format. The cities have all been trapped in a dome for a year and then are forced to fight one another. Each one of these collections seem to focus on a different DC era.
This one is pre-Crisis Earth-2 Metropolis. In Earth-2, heroes aged naturally and the premiere team was the JSA. Most of those heroes have gotten old and their kids are either in the JSA now or Infinity Inc. Members end up fighting Mark Millar's Superman Elseworlds Red Son where Kal-El landed in Russia instead of Kansas as a baby. They also go up against Jonah Hex while he was stuck in the future in the 80s. And then Green Lantern villains from the antimatter world of Qward. It's all fine, but I would only recommend these to those readers like myself who feel they need to read it all no matter how pointless it all is.
This one is pre-Crisis Earth-2 Metropolis. In Earth-2, heroes aged naturally and the premiere team was the JSA. Most of those heroes have gotten old and their kids are either in the JSA now or Infinity Inc. Members end up fighting Mark Millar's Superman Elseworlds Red Son where Kal-El landed in Russia instead of Kansas as a baby. They also go up against Jonah Hex while he was stuck in the future in the 80s. And then Green Lantern villains from the antimatter world of Qward. It's all fine, but I would only recommend these to those readers like myself who feel they need to read it all no matter how pointless it all is.
April 29, 2025
I’ll say this is a 3.5 rounded down because it’s not quite deserving of 4 stars, but this is one of the better Convergence tie in collections
Action Comics - Power Girl vs Red Son Wonder Woman, boring
Detective Comics - pre crisis Earth 2’s Dick Grayson and Huntress, with the aid of Red Son Batman, vs Red Son Superman
Touching, entertaining, a good one!
Justice Society of America - vs old age and a big robot, boring but touching
Infinity Inc - vs Jonah Hex and his future crew? Rough start, bit entertaining, boring ending
World’s Finest - Seven Soldies of Victory vs weaponers of Qward, surprisingly great, Paul Levitz just wrote a great entertaining story with this one, also thus far the best interpretation of Telos I’ve seen written in Convergence
Action Comics - Power Girl vs Red Son Wonder Woman, boring
Detective Comics - pre crisis Earth 2’s Dick Grayson and Huntress, with the aid of Red Son Batman, vs Red Son Superman
Touching, entertaining, a good one!
Justice Society of America - vs old age and a big robot, boring but touching
Infinity Inc - vs Jonah Hex and his future crew? Rough start, bit entertaining, boring ending
World’s Finest - Seven Soldies of Victory vs weaponers of Qward, surprisingly great, Paul Levitz just wrote a great entertaining story with this one, also thus far the best interpretation of Telos I’ve seen written in Convergence
August 27, 2018
As much as I loved the pre-Crisis/Crisis Earth-2 line up, this revisit was not as enjoyable. The problem with all of these Convergence mini's is that they pick a point in time to make their event connection. That means it turns into an alternate continuity to the one's we older fans know and love. Also, the artwork kind of was a struggle. Had they gotten some classic artists to do the pictures then maybe this would have had a better nostalgia punch.
January 24, 2019
Cape Swinging! :D Brilliant to come! :D
April 1, 2019
Not much to recommend here, though Denys Cowan artwork is always worth a look (and Len Wein does better than most to make something of the mediocre set-up of this series).
April 11, 2019
See my review of Convergence: Flashpoint, Book One.
April 24, 2021
Enjoyed this one. Some Golden Age characters I really didn't know much about. Fun change!
April 14, 2024
The heroes of the Golden Age are back for a harrowing adventure
January 19, 2016
Collects Convergence: Action Comics #1-2, Convergence: Detective Comics issues #1-2, Convergence: Justice Society of America issues #1-2, Convergence: Infinity Inc. issues #1-2, and Convergence: World's Finest issues #1-2
"Convergence" was an event in which a powerful entity abducted people from various worlds in the Multiverse and held them prisoner for one year. These abductees are a combination of superheroes, super villains, and regular people. Each world's/time period's people are trapped underneath their own special dome. After one year, the domes were opened, and the 50 different worlds were told that they had to fight each other. Whichever worlds' champions won in combat against each of the other worlds would be allowed to live. Only one of these parallel universes will be allowed to survive at the conclusion of the great battle.
I'm not a long time DC Comics fan, so I don't know a lot of the history behind each character. I can imagine that if someone was a long-time fan, they would love this event, and the tie-in issues that came out to support the event.
This volume's tie-in issues features characters primarily from the original Earth 2 (not the New 52 version of Earth 2), characters from the Red Son Universe, and characters from Qward.
"Convergence: Action Comics" features the Earth 2 Superman and Power Girl taking on the Red Son Lex Luthor and Wonder Woman.
"Convergence: Detective Comics" features the Earth 2 Dick Grayson and Helena Wayne fighting against the Red Son Superman.
"Convergence: Justice Society of America" has the older generation of heroes of Earth 2 (Hawkman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Dr. Fate) taking on the invading forces of the Weaponers of Qward.
"Convergence: Infinity Inc." has the younger generation of heroes of Earth 2 facing against a post-apocalyptic version of Jonah Hex. This 2-issue miniseries picks up where the above "Convergence: Justice Society of America" left off.
"Convergence: World's Finest" features the Seven Soldiers of Victory fighting against the Weaponers of Qward. These issues also featured a cartoonist named Scibbly Jibbet.
In my opinion, the "Action Comics," "Detective Comics," and "Justice Society of America" issues were the best.
"Convergence" was an event in which a powerful entity abducted people from various worlds in the Multiverse and held them prisoner for one year. These abductees are a combination of superheroes, super villains, and regular people. Each world's/time period's people are trapped underneath their own special dome. After one year, the domes were opened, and the 50 different worlds were told that they had to fight each other. Whichever worlds' champions won in combat against each of the other worlds would be allowed to live. Only one of these parallel universes will be allowed to survive at the conclusion of the great battle.
I'm not a long time DC Comics fan, so I don't know a lot of the history behind each character. I can imagine that if someone was a long-time fan, they would love this event, and the tie-in issues that came out to support the event.
This volume's tie-in issues features characters primarily from the original Earth 2 (not the New 52 version of Earth 2), characters from the Red Son Universe, and characters from Qward.
"Convergence: Action Comics" features the Earth 2 Superman and Power Girl taking on the Red Son Lex Luthor and Wonder Woman.
"Convergence: Detective Comics" features the Earth 2 Dick Grayson and Helena Wayne fighting against the Red Son Superman.
"Convergence: Justice Society of America" has the older generation of heroes of Earth 2 (Hawkman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Dr. Fate) taking on the invading forces of the Weaponers of Qward.
"Convergence: Infinity Inc." has the younger generation of heroes of Earth 2 facing against a post-apocalyptic version of Jonah Hex. This 2-issue miniseries picks up where the above "Convergence: Justice Society of America" left off.
"Convergence: World's Finest" features the Seven Soldiers of Victory fighting against the Weaponers of Qward. These issues also featured a cartoonist named Scibbly Jibbet.
In my opinion, the "Action Comics," "Detective Comics," and "Justice Society of America" issues were the best.
October 28, 2016
Okay, I admit it. I was biased towards liking this book from the beginning. It features the Pre Crisis Earth-2 characters. How can a book go wrong when it includes both the Justice Society of America (albeit only four members) and Infinity, Inc. which was one of my favourite titles. The book also includes the Earth-2 Superman; Power Girl; Robin and Huntress as well as the Seven Soldiers of Victory. Their adversaries in this volume include the Red Son Superman and Wonder Woman, the Weaponers of Qward and Jonah Hex in his post-apocalyptic era, along with a group called The Dogs of War of whom I know nothing about. I enjoyed this volume, although I have a few minor quibbles
1. Only the Earth-2 Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Dr. Fate were used. I would like to seen a somewhat larger group particularly with Starman and The Sandman involved.
2. Again some members were missing from Infinity, Inc. In this case though given the period these characters were taken from that may be understandable.
3. The Seven Soldiers were lacking Stripesy, Green Arrow and Speedy. Mind you this story includes the golden age character Scribbly, so maybe that partially makes up for their absence
Still, despite these admittedly minor complaints, this was a good volume. I enjoyed the situations the creators came up with. It is always nice to see the Earth-2 heroes in action again. I was especially happy to see Roy Thomas' creation Infinity, Inc. It made me wish that Thomas would return to DC and to his creation, if only to undo the past stupidity of DC in allowing the new versions of Dr. Midnight and Wildcat to be killed off. This is one volume I will definitely consider adding to my library, even if I already have some of the stories in their original form.
1. Only the Earth-2 Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Dr. Fate were used. I would like to seen a somewhat larger group particularly with Starman and The Sandman involved.
2. Again some members were missing from Infinity, Inc. In this case though given the period these characters were taken from that may be understandable.
3. The Seven Soldiers were lacking Stripesy, Green Arrow and Speedy. Mind you this story includes the golden age character Scribbly, so maybe that partially makes up for their absence
Still, despite these admittedly minor complaints, this was a good volume. I enjoyed the situations the creators came up with. It is always nice to see the Earth-2 heroes in action again. I was especially happy to see Roy Thomas' creation Infinity, Inc. It made me wish that Thomas would return to DC and to his creation, if only to undo the past stupidity of DC in allowing the new versions of Dr. Midnight and Wildcat to be killed off. This is one volume I will definitely consider adding to my library, even if I already have some of the stories in their original form.
November 28, 2015
Writers: Dan Abnett, Jerry Ordway, Len Wein, Paul Levitz, and Justin Gray.
Artists: Tom Derenick, Trevor Scott, Ben Caldwell, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Fern, Shannon Wheeler, Claude St-Aubin, and others.
This Convergence collection includes the miniseries Justice Society of America #1-2, Infinity Inc. #1-2, Detective Comics #1-2, World's Finest Comics #1-2, and Action Comics #1-2.
This is not one of the better collections of the Convergence tie-ins. The stories are mostly so-so, with formulaic plots that don't have clear resolutions.
I read the contents of this volume as individual comic books when they were published.
Artists: Tom Derenick, Trevor Scott, Ben Caldwell, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz, Jim Fern, Shannon Wheeler, Claude St-Aubin, and others.
This Convergence collection includes the miniseries Justice Society of America #1-2, Infinity Inc. #1-2, Detective Comics #1-2, World's Finest Comics #1-2, and Action Comics #1-2.
This is not one of the better collections of the Convergence tie-ins. The stories are mostly so-so, with formulaic plots that don't have clear resolutions.
I read the contents of this volume as individual comic books when they were published.
December 11, 2015
The plot of Convergence goes like this:
Character 1: "I'm so sad that we're in a dome."
Mysterious Voice: "The dome has gone and now you must fight."
Character 1: "but I don't want to fight, I'm a hero."
Character 1 fights Character 2.
Character 2 is defeated.
Character 1: "I think we all learned something."
The end.
Insert your favourite Character from DC Comics and repeat.
There's at least one other volume of this nonsense.
Character 1: "I'm so sad that we're in a dome."
Mysterious Voice: "The dome has gone and now you must fight."
Character 1: "but I don't want to fight, I'm a hero."
Character 1 fights Character 2.
Character 2 is defeated.
Character 1: "I think we all learned something."
The end.
Insert your favourite Character from DC Comics and repeat.
There's at least one other volume of this nonsense.
December 17, 2015
Hmmmm, I really like the JSA story. And the Action Comics story is solid. But at a certain point Convergence is a hot mess since these titles seem to overlap on which cities are involved and are these the same Red Sun Supermen or same weaponers.
And that makes it clear that their is some variety missing from the event.
And that makes it clear that their is some variety missing from the event.
February 6, 2016
All of these Convergence stories have an incredible sameness about them. Here, finally, we meet two sets of combatants about which I have no interest and hardly care. Maybe this wouldn't be two-stars if I hadn't read the other near-identical books about characters I'm somewhat familiar with.
But so be it.
But so be it.
August 2, 2016
Action Comics - 3.5 stars
Detective Comics - 3.5 stars
Justice League of America - 4 stars
Infinity Inc - 3 stars
World's Finest - 1.5 stars
Overall - 3 stars
Detective Comics - 3.5 stars
Justice League of America - 4 stars
Infinity Inc - 3 stars
World's Finest - 1.5 stars
Overall - 3 stars
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