Gerard Francis Conway (Gerard F. Conway) is an American writer of comic books and television shows. He is known for co-creating the Marvel Comics' vigilante the Punisher and scripting the death of the character Gwen Stacy during his long run on The Amazing Spider-Man. At DC Comics, he is known for co-creating the superhero Firestorm and others, and for writing the Justice League of America for eight years. Conway wrote the first major, modern-day intercompany crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man.
Falta transcribir índice. Aparentemente ncluye 10 issues, más que la edición original en tapa blanda: Justice League of America #207-209, 219-220, 231-232; All-Star Squadron #14-15 & DC Comics Presents Annual #1
Tomo 6 de 14 del Box Set y sexto de seis de los plateadísimos Crisis on Multiple Earths en una edición hardcover preciosa, aunque los tomos individuales no tengan ISBN propio. Me parece que no tengo números repetidos con ninguna otra edición.
DC Comics Presents Annual #1: When I bought the box set that this volume is included within, I was expecting that all the Earth-1/Earth-2 crossovers were going to be included, right back to the first meeting of the two Flashes that started that whole multiple earths concept running. So this story of two Supermen meeting was what I thought would be in these volumes. But this is really more like just a teaser or a prelude to just the annual meeting of the JLA from Earth-1 and the JSA of Earth-2. Nothing particularly special here although it does feature the first story in these collections written by Marv Wolfman, one of the masterminds behind the coming Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Justice League of America #207-209 & All-Star Squadron #14-15: This 5-part crossover was crazy! Time Travel. Multiple Earths. Alternate Realities. Variant Histories. Nuclear Apocalypse. World War II. The Cuban Missile Crisis. FDR. JFK. Nazis. Soviets. Justice League of America. Justice Society of America. All-Star Squadron. Crime Syndicate. Per Degaton. I think my head is still spinning. Unfortunately, even with all this going on, this story still fell just a bit flat. While it’s a good and entertaining read, it just a bit too much like all the lame stories from the previous volumes of crossovers. The progress from the previous volume just now seems like some quirky high points, with qualities that were not repeated (at least until Crisis on Infinite Earths).
Justice League of America #219-220: Wait? Hold on a tick? Are you seriously trying to tell me ...? This was horrible! And these characters are supposed to be heroes? Forcing people to believe lies about their own lives? Marvel did something like this once (anyone remember Avengers #200?) and it was appalling. What where they thinking? And why didn’t some editor at some point stop this misogynistic trash from being printed? It’s bad enough in the last story when the female character serve refreshments after the male characters finally decide to stop behaving like spoiled toddlers, but this bit of ret-con is downright offensive.
Justice League of America #231-232: As this last story was written by Kurt Busiek, I had some pretty high expectations for it. Sadly, these were not realized. This is just another typical JLA/JSA team-up that ends up with the cliche of punching the bad guy for the win, even when said bad guy is some cosmic force that has shown it can control its own shape and density. Yawn. Might makes right and willpower conquers all are not the best slogans to live by, but these are common threads that DC seems to keep coming back to again and again. In the end, this was just another disappointing story concluding a rather disappointing volume.
Uno de los mejores CoME, sobre todo gracias a los agregados de esta edición. No sé cuántos capítulos de los incluidos se tradujeron en castellano, probablemente en la edición XD de ECC.
Libro de historietas con ISBN compartido con el resto de la colección. Edición estadounidense que forma parte del Box set de Crisis. Hubo ediciones similares con contenido muy similar o igual.