Just a quick thought on the Absolute editions that DC Comics has been producing in the past few years. I have a few and plan on getting a few more. I may not agree with some of the decisions they have made in the books that they chose to get the Absolute treatment but overall I dig the format and they are well worth the price and look good on the shelf as well.
I have the The Absolute Sandman Editions
I started reading Trinity when the weekly comic started but shortly abandoned it because I couldn’t keep up with it along with the other comics I read. So I shelved it and waited until DC released it as a collected edition. Which, in the most recent years, both Marvel and DC have published much of their output in collected trades which is a great move.
So how is DC comics like a teenager? They have a crises almost every week. Trinity is just another crises that DC has put together in which worlds are changed, disappear, mutated, and merged. This time instead of Monitors and the Flash running really fast we have the big three Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as the focus of this crises, and it is a crises even if they don’t subtitle the series as such.
DC is the expert in universe wide crises story telling. From Crises on Infinite Earths to Identity Crises, Infinite Crises and Final Crises and Final Night, and probably a few others [Just remembered Countdown to Final Crises] I can’t remember right now, DC has cornered the market on crises storytelling. It is really a wonder why the normal people in the DC universe are not so used to The Crises of The Week, that they take it in stride and go about their daily business.
» Read more: How DC Comics is like a Teenager: Everything is a Crisis.
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