Crisis on Infinite Earths: Every DC Comics event ranked worst to best
By Scott Brown
19. Justice League vs. Suicide Squad
When the Suicide Squad finally breaks away from Amanda Waller, will the Justice League be able to stop them?
If that sounds like an interesting story, then you’d be wrong. It’s not that this event is uninteresting either, it just feels like it exists and nothing more. There are no story elements that pull you in during the early issues of the event and the character work feels lacking at times. The last few issues of the series hold the few redeeming qualities of the series, which sadly, by that point, it’s hard to care.
The art in this series is also very odd. Every issue looks good, but every issue has a different artist. Because of that, the series starts off with Jason Fabok, one of the best comic artists of the past ten years, and every subsequent issue pales in comparison. It feels like a failed experiment more than anything else.
18. The Final Night
When a Sun-Eater begins to devour Earth’s sun, there’s nothing that Earth’s heroes can do other than try to survive.
This event is different than pretty much every other event that DC has ever done. The threat in this series isn’t something that’s easy to simply punch into submission, rather it’s a fight for survival. This carries the series for the first couple of issues and provides a new wrinkle to an event title. However, the back-half of the series falls a bit flat. It becomes interesting again once, Hal Jordan begins his redemption arc, but it’s a bit too little, too late to truly to pull the series into greatness.
This is a relatively short event though, not counting the tie-ins, so it is worth reading if you want something different from an event title.