Crisis on Infinite Earths: Green Lantern

Crisis on Infinite Earths Box Set #9

by Steve Englehart, Paul Levitz, Todd Klein

This book was published as part of the Crisis on Infinite Earths box set.

This volume contains material originally published as:
Green Lantern #194, 195, 196, 197, 198
Legion of Super-Heroes #16, 18
Omega Men #31, 33

Genres: Superheroes, Dc Comics

248 pages, Hardcover

Published August 1, 2019

About the author

See also John Harkness.

Steve Englehart went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, and a dozen other titles. Midway through that period he moved to California (where he remains), and met and married his wife Terry.

He was finally hired away from Marvel by DC Comics, to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but he also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the "definitive" version) that later became Warner Brothers' first Batman film (the good one).

After that he left comics for a time, traveled in Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man™), and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). But he still liked comics, so he created Coyote™, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series. Other projects he owned (Scorpio Rose™, The Djinn™) were mixed with company series (Green Lantern [with Joe Staton], Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four). Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Brøderbund.

And once he and Terry had their two sons, Alex and Eric, he naturally told them stories. Rustle's Christmas Adventure was first devised for them. He went on to add a run of mid-grade books to his bibliography, including the DNAgers™ adventure series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school curriculum on the invention of the airplane.

In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse. One of his contributions, The Night Man, became not only a successful comics series, but also a television show. That led to more Hollywood work, including animated series such as Street Fighter, GI Joe, and Team Atlantis for Disney.

Reviews

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Green Lantern #194-198 - Steve Englehart is another fine author who is able to interweave the company-wide crossover-event into his ongoing narrative. A feat which is not easy to do by any means, and Englehart makes it seem effortless. There’s a lot going on in the five issues. New and old faces, lots of Green Lantern lore, the tie-in to the Crisis, it is very ambitious and it’s handled really well. And this from a non-Green Lantern reader.

Legion of Super-Heroes #16 & 18 - These two issues try and address some of the fallout of the Crisis with some success. The first one deals with Brainiac’s sorrow with the death of Supergirl. But it is marred by the rest of the issue including the absurdity of a Christian baptism in the 25th century (the depiction is pretty offensive and exemplifies the entitlement and self-centered attitudes so many people of that faith seem to possess). The second issue offers a wonderful story that ties into the history of the title and offers a possible brilliant tie-in with the Crisis, but apparently the writers at the time basically ignored it after this one single issue. A wasted opportunity.

Omega Men #31 & 33 - My only exposure to the Omega Men was in their crossovers with the New Teen Titans and whatever they appeared in during Crisis on Infinite Earths. This feels like a cross between Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy Epic Collection, Vol. 2: Quest for the Shield. The less said about the second of these two issues, the better off we will all be.

While some of this volume was not really my cup-of-tea, it is one of the better collections in the Crisis on Infinite Earths Box Set.

[Jacob Mahaffey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed the Green Lantern stories quite a bit and the struggle between the 3 lanterns of Earth, but I thought the Legion of Super-Heroes and Omega Men stories had little to do with the larger story and were otherwise generic science fiction stories. I did appreciate the artwork, however, because space is cool.

[Desire Manara]

Variado tomo dedicado a los Green Lanterns y otros héroes espaciales. No sé si tengo algo repetido en castellano también.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tomo 9 de 14 (aunque sin numeración marcada) del Box Set y segundo de los siete que recopilan material contemporáneo a la gran Crisis, en este caso cinco números de Green Lantern, dos de Legion of Super-Heroes y dos de Omega Men. La edición hardcover es preciosa, aunque los tomos individuales no tengan ISBN propio.

[Guido · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tomo dedicado a la esquina cósmica de DC, con capítulos de Green Lantern, Legion y Omega Men.

[Kapitol Tank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Especial del Crisis Box Set con las historias de Green Lantern. Nueve capítulos en total entre los cinco de Green Lantern propiamente dicho (#194 a 198), Legion of Super-Heroes (16 y 18) y Omega Men (31 y 33), más los agregados habituales. Más de un capítulo debe haber sido editado en castellano.

[Ashcan F. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Los Green Lanterns, la Legión, incluso los Omega Men tienen su lugar en este tomo con consecuencias y tie-ins de la gran Crisis.

[Ribrarian Not · Rating 4 out of 5]

Libro de historietas sin ISBN propio. Edición estadounidense que forma parte del Box set de Crisis. Según esta web, por ahora esta es la única edición.