TRIGGER WARNING:
I think
The OMAC Project part of
Infinite Crisis is better than the main story. Actually I like the various plots around Infinite Crisis + 52 more than separately because it does seem more like an epic event.
No Man's Land was what got me back into comics and so EVENTS have always felt like a letdown in the wake of that. IIRC, it ran for an entire year across the entire Bat-family books with just a really incredible scope. The New Krypton arc was like an inferior Superman version.
I was wishy-washy on
R.I.P and
Final Crisis until
The Multiversity which I read at the same time I finally read
The Invisibles. The Batman stuff gets messy because it sprawls out of control once he starts writing it as a monthly book instead of a story with an ending. And he tells that entire Doctor Hurt arc in about three times the issues he needed. (Ironically, the opposite of his normal problem like where Final Crisis needed two extra issues.)
But there's like an arc, from Animal Man/Doom Patrol -> Batman -> Final Crisis -> The Multiversity that The Invisibles touches on in a very raw form that I put together along with parts of Seven Soldiers that forms this macro-arc of the same sort of ideas and concepts toyed with over the years and approached from different angles. With Batman being where he touches on a legendary character and Final Crisis where he touches on the legendary aspect of the DC Universe. (He dabbled back in the JLA days but I think it was after doing X-Men, The Invisibles, The Filth, and All-Star Superman that he became GRANT MORRISON and was able to take his nuts stuff and import it into Batman/52/FC.)
It's a whole fascination about the nature of stories. Animal Man and The Multiversity get the most blatant about it, but it's in all the others, like his dredging up crazy 1960s Batman stories and making them canon. And the supernatural mythology that's really our inability to comprehend whatever. (Doom Patrol and The Invisibles are all over this is coherent and incoherent form.) Even his conception of Darkseid and the multi-universe in Final Crisis is about these layers.
In some respects I like that he's seemingly backed into this DC-arc by accident. It's clearly something he's pondered on, and he's real explicit with The Multiversity in interviews and stuff. But because of the haphazard way it comes off as like I'm putting the pieces together on this greater secret about the DC Universe as he is.
Glad he's doing
The Multiversity Too. I wouldn't necessarily have been a couple years ago.
Shame Convergence took the wind out of the sails of The Multiversity's conclusion by telegraphing the twist, which both telegraphed Rebirth.
One of the meta jokes I liked in The Multiversity is a character says something like "Comic books? What have they ever done for anybody. Superhero films, that's where the real art is." Bitter Morrison can be fun.
All that gibberish about Morrison aside, I think Rucka, Brubaker and James Robinson are probably top DC superhero fan-bros. (Plus stuff outside it, especially Rucka.) Brian Azzarello, Bill Willingham and Dan Jurgens too I suppose. Geoff Johns must be okay since he wrote on JSA. Basically anyone who wrote on the JSA books gets a pass.
Except David Goyer. But then again, he did that before he worked with Brannon Braga AND before he interviewed himself. So...I'm reaching here.
