Ha ha. This is hilarious beyond reason. For some reason, the thing I find the funniest is the fact that in all my years of reading Avengers comics, I never before realized how...well...EASY it is to make a Kang costume. It's a mask (but not even a very complicated mask, either) and a comfortable suit, and that's it.
There was a story that my comic book store owner told me: at the time the original CRISIS came out, nobody cared about it at all, because what everybody was talking about was Marvel's SECRET WARS. This was because at the time, Marvel was the Top Dog comics company in a way impossible to even compare to today where the two companies are more or less neck and neck, and further, because CRISIS was a very...well, it was a "Silver Age" story that required a lot of knowledge of DC history to make sense, and that was at a time when even DC fans wanted something else. Hell, the biggest DC titles at the time were NEW TEEN TITANS and LEGION OF SUPERHEROES, both of which were the
least "DC" style books. CRISIS had Angle Man, Detective Chimp, a JLA/JSA team-up, Gorilla City, and so forth.
The absolutely gorgeous Perez art notwithstanding, SECRET WARS has aged much better than CRISIS has. Not just because SECRET WARS had Jimmy Shooter writing it. But mostly because CRISIS was written to "accomplish" something, whereas SECRET WARS had no ultimate endgoal except to just be an entertaining story.
Also, as weird as it sounds, CRISIS felt a lot like Daniel Clowes' ICE HAVEN, in the sense that ICE HAVEN was a series of newspaper strips that tell a complete story. CRISIS wasn't a series of newspaper strips, but it jumped POV so much that it sure did feel that way; it felt like a comic book with A.D.D. Didn't like what was going on in CRISIS? Just wait five panels. Whereas SECRET WARS kept an even perspective and didn't jump around as much, often to the detriment of the story: the most interesting stories in SECRET WARS was what was going on with the X-Men and the Wasp befriending the Lizard.
Further, SECRET WARS felt much more like a Marvel Universe story than CRISIS felt like a "DC" story. SECRET WARS featured all the classic Marvel bad guys, given a reason to duke it out with the heroes. Sure, SECRET WARS had the Beyonder, a guy not before seen, but the Beyonder was not on the scene; the conflict was created by things like Galactus trying to "eat" the Battleworld, the Enchantress trying to seduce Doctor Doom, and Magneto teaming up with the X-Men.
(Incidentally, this is why SECRET WARS II like so many sequels, was not as great as the first; the Beyonder was by far the LEAST interesting thing about the first SECRET WARS, and making him the focus was a mistake.)
Whereas CRISIS's man villain was the Anti-Monitor and an antimatter wave - neither of which are exactly defining elements of the DCU. Sure, they have the Thunderers, but they're there almost as an afterthought, as in Marv thought "...Oh yeah, the bad guy is kind of from Qward, isn't he?"
I'm not throwing out my "John Byrne Should Have Died In CRISIS" T-shirt away anytime soon, though.