What is your most to least favorite DC Crisis?

[Eclips0]

Out of the big events that have hit DC put them into order based on how much you liked them.

Mine are:
1)Crisis on Infinite Earths
2)Zero Hour
3)Infinite Crisis
4)Genesis
5)Final Night
6)Day of Judgment
7)Armageddon 2001

What are yours?

[raul the cat]

Only two of those are crises. The rest are events. Crisis From Yesterday and Crisis From Tomorrow, now those are crises.

[Reptisaurus!]

Crisis Between Earth One and Earth Two is still my favorite, even though it's got the stewpidest name.

If we count events, then it's probably The Hand That Shook the World.

Infinite Crisis is up there - I thought it was very good for, well, for what it was. (IE a type of comics storytelling that has to WORK to be good.)

[Eclips0]

Actually Zero Hour was called "Crisis in Time", and the other ones I listed were pretty much universe ending level events. I just threw Armaggeddon and Final Night on there.

[CBikle]

Crisis On Infinite Earths is still my favorite. Wolfman & Perez did a fantastic job and DC did a great job too in juggling almost all of their titles around this one event and this was the first time that something of this magnitude had ever been tried in comics and showed how it could be done the right way.

A close-second would be the DC 1, 000,000 crossover; the main book was very good, but the tie-in issues were all very hit-or-miss.

The second-least favorite was John Byrne's Genesis event, which basically tried to tie-in The Source, the Speed Force and all the cosmic and god characters. Very boring and uninspired and I honestly remember very little about it.

Zero Hour is my least favorite. A very mean-spirited time travel x-over that seemed to be created, just to get rid of the golden and silver-age characters , so that they could be replaced with dark 90's versions of the characters like Fate, although Some good things came out of it, like Starman.

[tony ingram]

Crisis on Infinite earths, for me. Though Crisis on Earth Three was pretty good...

[TotalWorldDomination]

Actually Zero Hour was called "Crisis in Time", and the other ones I listed were pretty much universe ending level events. I just threw Armaggeddon and Final Night on there.

exactly. I'd relay only consider The Pre-CoIE Crisis series, CoIE, Zero Hour and Infinite Crisis to be "Crisis" events. the others are world shaking events, but I don't know if they'd be considered crisis.

Still if we are using the broader definition of a "Crisis" then my list would be fairly similar to yours.

1)Crisis on Infinite Earths
2)Zero Hour
3)Infinite Crisis
4)Crisis on Earth One/Earth Two/Earth one and two ect ect
5)Final Night
6)Armageddon 2001
7)Genesis
8)Day of Judgment

[Eclips0]

I'd say Genisis counts as well, since it was a fall out from COIE and the universe was at stake.

[TotalWorldDomination]

I'd say Genisis counts as well, since it was a fall out from COIE and the universe was at stake.

mmm, I'd think I'd agree since it was considered CoIE fallout at the time. Of course, I'm pretty sure it's not cannon anymore is it? that "God Wave" thing was ignored pretty universally.

[Flash's Lightning]

Crisis on Infinite Earths
What really can be said about this that hasn't been said already? Huge story that reconstructed everything. That said, as someone who began to read comics much later, it doesn't really hold up as entertainment. I know next to nothing about Pre-Crisis time and the characters, so it held no emotional sway over me.

Zero Hour
A product of the 90's, was supposed to basically be a CoIE-lite, a mild reconstructuring. Really turned into a Hal Jordan/Kyle story, and a really bad method for DC to launch a whole lot of books like R.E.B.E.L.S., Justice League Task Force, Extreme Justice, Primal Force, etc etc etc

Infinite Crisis
What I would call false advertising. Still waiting for the "better, brighter heroes". Not that it wasn't a good read, it holds up. The artwork was nice, and a few character moments made the book better. I think it's main downfall was trying to mix a humanistic feel to a cosmic crisis. A lot of times it can work, but othertimes, it takes away from the story. Example, Starfire kissing Dick outside Bludhaven - a nice human story. But then we're reminded that she's an alien princess who's about to go out into space to find out what's threatening the universe.

Genesis
Didn't read it. Don't intend to.

Final Night
This was actually my favorite "event" story. *This* is the way you balance a mega-disaster with the humanistic ramifications. Concentrate on the humanity. My favorite moments? (Paraphrased as I don't have this in front of me)

"I don't know. They keep saying it's the end of the world as they know it, but they feel fine...what? A song?"

Feel free to correct me on that one. :D

Newspaper headline, something along the lines of, "Humans to Demons, Go to Hell!"

And, of course, Hal saying his oath and showing himself a hero.

Day of Judgment
Didn't read this one either, and haven't decided whether to or not yet.

Armageddon 2001
A decent story for what it was - a moral story asking, if you had the power to change a hell-ish future, what gives you the right to do so, even if you believe you're making it better? What of the people who die? In the end, Matthew Ryder decided that as heroes, they have to be there to make a difference.

And I'll add in another one of my favorite story's not mentioned:
Underworld Unleashed. Neron making trouble, with the Trickster story going on, was amazing. It is just below Final Night as great DC reads.

[Laughing Mask]

1) Crisis on Infinite Earths
2) Infinite Crisis
3) our worlds at war

i could only think of 3 off the top of my head.

[Rio_de_Janeiro]

my first place is a tie between crisis on infinite earths (just because. it was the first; everyone was involved; things changed, etc.) and dc one million (so much happened...it was an intricate, complicated story with two threads colliding...some classic spin-offs like young heroes in love (with the peanuts bit) and supergirl (maniacal) and hitman (absurd).

then, i love morrison's "secret crisis" in animal man. so sophisticated.

after that, i love what the complex "identity crisis-infinite crisis-final crisis" is doing, unifying the dcuniverse in an organic whole. it feels very connected and i like that.

then the rest

and then the negative rest, which are really bad in my opinion. genesis (irrelevant) and zero hour (contrived).

cheers,
rio.

[Teth-Diego]

-Infinite Crisis- In its entirety. I friggin' loved this!! It was my first crisis as a weekly reader. To this day Im still amazed at the awesomeness of all its parts.
from the countdown special through Villains united, OMAC, Day of Vengeance and rann\thanagar war. To the main Event and all the tie ins. Fantastic!!!!

-Crisis on Infinite Earths- The Original. The granddaddy of all crises (crisises?)
only reason it's not on the top spot is because i read it decades after the fact. but damn that's some satisfying event right there.

-Identity Crisis- could be considered the start of the infinite crisis but it stands on its own. and hell any crisis that my girlfriend can acyually read and enjoy cant be bad

[Teth-Diego]

the bad?
i've read genesis and for the life of me I cant remember what it was about.
so I guess this gets my crappiest crisis vote.

(I know, not really a crisis. but i havent read the old school ones.)

[Peter Svensson]

War of the Gods. Dear lord was that a bunch of nonsense. I love George Perez's work. I love his Wonder Woman. But War of the Gods was a rushed semi-crossover that really didn't amount to anything. It probably should have just been an extended WW storyline.

[Kid Kyoto]

Well if we're doing events, limiting it to the ones I actually read...

1) DC One Million
Finally an event that adds to the universe rather than destroys. SOme darn good comic booking there.

2) Invasion
SImple, to the point, heroes vs alien hoards

3) Crisis on Infinite Earths
Good when I read it the first time, but now it's nice art, some good moments but doesn't hold together.

4) Legends
Again, simple, to the point, heroes vs Darksied. What's not to like.

5) Armageddon 2000
The crossover itself was poo, but some of the futures were great, I loved President Superman.

6) Zero Hour
7) Infinite Crisis
Barely readable, tales told by an idot, full of noise and thunder and signifying nothing.

8) Genesis
9) War of the Gods
Unreadable. Could not tell you what happened if you put a gun to my head.

[LtMarvel]

Zero Hour was the worst: JSA members are murdered. So what do the surviving Flash and Green Lantern do?

They quit!

[Captain Smith]

Genesis was awful. While maybe not a 'crisis' - Millenium was equally horrific.

As a general point, making the New Gods so central to the DCU always sucked.

[shaxper]

I've never really taken an interest in any of the Crises. They always felt more like editorial moves, designed to deliver a changed product, rather than stories intended to entertain.

Regarding major events, I found Armageddon 2001 intriguing, but the end ruined it for me (and then there were the terrible follow-up series!). The only event that I've ever thoroughly enjoyed from begining to end was Day of Vengeance.

[Will.S]

I've only ever read Infinite Crisis and I loved some of it and disliked other parts of it. If I eventually get around to getting the Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths and whenever Final Crisis comes out then I'll probably get back to this.