Page 1: So the entire DC Multiverse was a mistake. Wonder how longtime fans felt reading that in 1985.

Page 2: Pariah's first appearance.

Page 3: I didn't know the Crime Syndicate appeared in Crisis. Loved them in Grant Morrison's Earth 2.

Page 10: Harbinger's first appearance.

Page 17: I was 12 in 1985...and I had a huge crush on Firebrand. Something about the red hair and the 1950s alter-ego. Okay, I just admitted to having had a crush on a comic book character. Sheesh.

Page 18: Marv Wolfman's Blue Beetle sounds like Guy Gardner. The tone is way off, all through Crisis.

Page 32: The Monitor looks like the grandfather of Marvel's Watcher.

Issue #2:

This is by far the worst issue of the entire maxi-series. Let's just skip it.

Issue #3:

Page 4: I have very little experience with the Barry Allen Flash. I wasn't a Flash reader when he was alive.

Page 6-7: Jericho makes a much better villain than he does a hero. I've always thought that.

Page 7: Halo! What a great character. Too bad DC ruined her later.

Page 10: Brainiac is cool. I'm just saying.

Page 12: I remember reading G.I. Combat as a kid. Always liked those guys in the Haunted Tank. Sgt. Rock too.

Page 18: I would have sent the Marv Wolfman Blue Beetle away the first time he opened his mouth. What took the Monitor so long?

Issue #4:

Page 2: The original Supergirl and the original (pre-Oracle) Batgirl. A good glimpse of what Barbara Gordon was like before Alan Moore's The Killing Joke changed everything with one Joker bullet.

Page 4: That guy is John Constantine? Alan Moore must have been shaking his great, bearded head.

Page 11: Red Tornado was being messed with in 1985...Red Tornado is still being messed with in 2006. Poor guy.

Page 12: The Shining Knight - whether in 1985 or 2006 - might just be DC's worst character idea.

Page 22: Pariah cries a lot.

Page 23-24: This is why Crisis is so good. It actually seems like people are in peril. Bad things are happening. Why can't more of these giant crossover events give me this feeling?

Issue #5:

Page 4: It's interesting seeing Alex Luthor and the other villains from Infinite Crisis as heroes here.

Page 21: The original Wildcat - worst mask ever.

Page 24: The Anti-Monitor. Cool.

Issue #6:

Page 14: The Martian Manhunter "disposes" of Captain Atom. This guy is scary, when he really cuts loose.

Page 24: *sigh* She didn't even change the goofy mask.

Issue #7:

Cover: Duh...wonder what happens inside?

Page 2: Ibac - a super-villain without enough brainpower to pull a shirt over his head. Seriously.

Page 4: Pariah continues his obsession with imitating the Spectre.

Page 8: I had no idea the Krona story, even the giant hand clutching a galaxy image, was from Crisis. I thought Larry Niven made that stuff up for Ganthet's Tale.

Page 14: When you see that giant hand thingie, you know you've just royally screwed up.

Page 29: I miss the Ronnie Raymond Firestorm.

Page 34: The Anti-Monitor approaches the near-unconscious Superman. This scene leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that the villain would have killed Supes in the next instant had Supergirl not interfered. Good stuff.

Page 38: Great! Look at that thing grabbing Supergirl. Again, you can feel something real bad is about to go down. Why don't today's crossovers feel like this?

Page 40: A side of Superman we don't normally see - murderous rage. Kingdom Come #4 is probably the only other instance I can recall.

Page 41: A touching scene, nicely done...except for the corny, cheesy quote at the end. "Declaration of the Free"?

Issue #8:

Cover: Ah, a cover that doesn't give away exactly what happens inside.

Page 3: Why does Wolfman have Darkseid talk using all those bizarre "quotations"? And since when does he have irises and pupils?

Page 4: Tomar-Re has a chicken head. There's really no two ways about it.

Page 4: Ganthet. You rebel, you.

Page 11: Wolfman's take on Firehawk - she's a total ditz!

Page 23: The death of the Flash. A bit anti-climactic, if you ask me, especially compared to Supergirl's.

Page 25: Every crossover, DC has to come up with some lame "reason" why the Spectre doesn't just take out the big bad guy. Except for Zero Hour, where he kinda does.

Issue #9:

Page 1: Guy Gardner! All right! Except...where's the Three Stooges bowl haircut?

Page 5: Subplots...that go absolutely nowhere. Isn't Jericho a villain yet?

Page 20: Sinestro doesn't actually meet any Qwardians in Crisis, which is odd, since he will one day become their leader.

Page 21: Why is Eclipso slumming in Crisis? Taking orders from Lex Luthor? Battling Wonder Woman? Isn't this guy a Spectre-level threat?

Page 25: "Psimon Says"...I get it!

Issue #10:

Page 5: Don Hall (Dove I) dies in this issue. One question: how did he live so long?

Page 8: The Shaggy Man, who took out the whole JLA during Morrison's run, is here beaten by an arrow from Speedy. I guess the JLA should have kept his number on the rolodex.

Page 10: The Time Trapper! And...it seems he buys his cloaks at the same store the Spectre does.

Page 13: Earth Prime Superboy! Now's your chance, DC heroes. Get him now before he turns bad. By 2006, when he's kicking all your butts, you'll wish you had.

Page 17: Brainiacs calculations seem sort of pessimistic.

Page 24, 25, 26: Nice ending. Zero Hour lacked this kind of weight. Maybe it's the 12-issue length. Crisis has time, where the other crossovers seem rushed.

Issue #11:

Page 12: She changed clothes before entering her apartment? There, out in the hallway where anyone passing by could see? Weird.

Page 14: Cro-magnon man was Homo sapiens. Got you, Wolfman!

Page 18-20: Ugh. They really ruined Amethyst.

Issue #12:

Page 8: Those shadow things are getting old by this point.

Page 20: Nice full-page panel.

Page 28: Doctor Light kills the Anti-Monitor. Doctor Light? Oh wait...she didn't.

Page 35: Darkseid kills the Anti-Monitor. Cool. Oh wait...he didn't.

Page 37: Superman kills the Anti-Monitor. By punching him. Wtf?

Page 37: The chronal shock waves. Parallax uses them years later to start Zero Hour.

Page 40: Relax, Psycho-Pirate. They put you in Arkham. You'll be out of there in a few weeks, max.