Superman Through the Ages! Forum

I had in mind writing a long column about how DC's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" was a colossal failure as a way of seamlessly streamlining their universe-- how so many stories thereafter were tainted with a "did this happen or didn't it?" stink as histories were tossed out, revived or altered following that blessed event, but my reference material from that time is woefully inadequate to do the subject justice. I could, and perhaps should, go on about "All-Star Superman" and "All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder" and bellyache about the same thing, how they've essentially started in the middle, with far too much back stories left completely nebulous, but it's not really the same, and besides, with "Crisis on Infinite Earths" we've gotten to see how things have played out over the years while the "All-Star" books have had just a handful of stories published to date, so I can't be sure how adequately they'll pull things all together.