18 Years On, DC’s Most Complex Event Is Still Its Best

The mid to late 2000s were a fascinating time for DC Comics and its readers. Beginning with 2005’s Infinite Crisis, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC started revisiting beloved elements of its comics and the idea of a vast multiverse. It was a really creative period, with top comic book writers and artists reimagining classic characters and teams. Grant Morrison was writing Batman at the time, and had been developing ideas for a huge, epic story (originally called Hypercrisis) for years. This finally came to fruition as Final Crisis, a comic that’s become known as one of the most intricate and often misinterpreted events in comic book history. While it’s definitely a complex story, that complexity is a big part of what makes it so compelling.








