1 out of 5

That’s right, 4 writers.  Presumably each scripting the characters they’re handling in The New 52.  Also: 5 artists.  Figure that out.

Look, I’m gonna’ level with you: going back to Crisis on Infinite Earths, I’ve never really gotten the crossovers.  I get it in theory – who wins a fight between x and y – but that can be handled in an issue.  Hero comics already walk a tightrope over silly, and as soon as you start blowing things up to massive proportions… it gets even sillier.  Morrison’s approach to this was to EMBRACE it for his JLA run, but that’s rarely the case with publisher-wide crossovers… though his touch was there in the original 52, it elsewhere got dragged into the mire of violence and death as they all do.  And I should note that upon a reread of Morrison’s JLA, I don’t love it, but I can appreciate it.

Most of this stuff, though?  Can’t even appreciate it.  And I’m really not clear on what fuels it… though obviously sales do.  How many times can we do the “in the future everything is fucked up and Superman’s a bad guy” storyline?  Well, here’s one more, and toss ’52’ onto it because it’s caused by Brother Eye robot-ing people.  Cue some pages of heroes with beards doing things vaingloriously and, because this is ‘Forever Evil’ generation, arms are chopped off.

These writers and artists have all produced things of distinction separately; together, this is the same mishmash as ‘Infinite Crisis.’  Too much, all the time.  Normally I’d try to offer some kind of perspective, but man, regarding Futures End, I just

don’t

care.