I feel like this is pretty self-explanatory. I didn’t include books that focus on a particular character (so no No Man’s Land or Death and Return of Superman, but rest assured that both would have ranked highly) Here’s my list from worst to best:
Identity Crisis
Infinite Crisis
Millennium
Armageddon 2001
Forever Evil
Convergence
Joker’s Last Laugh
Final Night
Zero Hour
Blackest Night/Brightest Day
Eclipso: The Darkness Within
Our Worlds at War
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Legends
52
Invasion!
DC One Million
Final Crisis
As always, these are opinions. Feel free to disagree.
Batwing, if you reversed your list you’d be closer to my tastes. Your list pains me soul.
Also, I thought up this thread months ago and just didn’t get around to making it. You must have used alien technology to swipe it from my brain. I demand the mods delete this and allow me to create a new thread with my rankings. The ranking of a no good mind thief doesn’t count.
Couldn’t think of a 5th character crossing event in the main continuity that is good enough to put on a list right now.
If we go elseworld’s I could find some more.
The above are good enough that I’d put them on a top list.
Rebirth wasn’t a good event per se, but it fixed enough things to deserve a place of honor, even though most of the good it did has been torn down.
I’m a Morrison fan, I worship his Animal Man and All-Star Superman, love his Doom Patrol, his Batman run, 52, and at least like everything he wrote and I read. Except for Final Crisis. For me it’s just gibberish.
Haven’t read much of the events but:
Also, @Nathan.Payson,
Yeah, 18 is worst. I say it a lot, I’m not the biggest fan of Identity Crisis. If you are, cool. It’s your opinion. I think Final Crisis is amazing. If you don’t, also cool. I don’t want you to feel like your tastes aren’t respected.
@Batwing52, I literally laughed out loud when I saw that Final Crisis was your #1 pick. No disrespect, but there is literally not another arc in all of comics that I despise more than Final Crisis lol.
Not a comprehensive list, but I’ll Rank the one’s I’ve read that spring to mind.
I’m reading through the most important comics in DC’s last 2 decades of History and am in the middle of Catclysm as prep for No Man’s Land and I LOVE IT so much. I can’t wait to read a bunch of these other series. Who knows? Maybe after reading all the background stuff I’ll like Final Crisis more. I just don’t GET it.
I really enjoyed No Man’s Land, but it’s premise is a little better than its delivery. The story is just spread a bit thin and they clearly wanted to explain why Gotham wasn’t normal Gotham for anybody who hadn’t been keeping track of recent comics, so you get them reiterating, “Earthquake. Thing are extra sucky,” again and again. That gets a bit tiring, but the awesomeness of a Mad Max version of Gotham really works and in broad strokes the story is great.
The novel adaptation boils down the best bits and is quite brilliant.
