Finally sat down and read the first issue of "INFINITE Crisis" last night. They've always said, straight-up, that this is a seuqel to "Crisis on Infinite Earths", but you can easily interchange out so many elements of the two stories.

Instead of the anti-matter shadow demons flying around and killing people, they now have OMAC robots. Instead of the the "cosmic storms", they now have the Rock of Eternity causing lightning storms in Gotham. They even have the "meeting on top of building while heroes watch the events" scenes that were all over the place in the original Crisis. There's even a "mysterious force" behind everything. If it's the Anti-Monitor or something connected with Qward...wouldn't THAT be shocking?! They even have a lame Marv Wolfman knock off on the writing and a lame George Perez knock-off on the art. All we're missing is Flash popping in and trying to warn people.

I also can not belive that they're actually using "Infinite Crisis" as a title. That phrase was a joke kicked around by fans for years. Like: "imagine if the Fantasic Four originally went on a Space Shuttle mission and all of their 60's adventures were wiped out...what an INFINITE CRISIS that would be!"

Funny thing is, you can pay 3.99 for INFINITE Crisis #1...or probably about 3.00 for the original "Crisis on Infinite Earths" #1. Sad thing is, I'll pick up all 8 issues since I'm still trying to get the taste of "Identity Crisis" out of my mouth.

Summary: fanboy wanking and recreation of "Crisis on Infinte Earths"...which really wasn't a good story to begin with.
Rating: .50