Greg welcomes DC3Cast’s Brian Salvatore back to the show to help out with this Shelf Bound look at DC’s 1985 blockbuster event Crisis on Infinite Earths. After catching up on Brian’s busy post-Multiversity life, balancing different passions including music, baseball, and family, and various podcasts, it’s time for some Crisis management to figure out the optimal way to tackle the monumental and sprawling story Marv Wolfman and George Perez unleashed. 

Do you stick to JUST the 12-issue maxiseries? 

Do you throw caution to the wind and read EVERY red sky tie-in? 

Do you go even further and include the various Crisis JLA/JSA precursors and the Legends miniseries follow-up? 

What about Marvel’s Crisis parodies like Mighty Mouse‘s “Mices on Infinite Earths”? 

It’s a biiiiiig question, but these are the two lads willing to walk into the anti-matter to answer that question, and many more. 

[This episode is number 818 in a series.]

CHAPTERS

00:00 – Preamble
02:17 – Brian’s Busy Life Post-Multiversity
04:21 – Rediscovering Comics as a Hobby
05:51 – Missing the Multiversity Experience
07:01 – The Churn of Comics and Baseball
09:44 – Balancing Work and Passion Projects
17:47 – The DC3Cast and Patreon Experience
28:54 – Crisis on Infinite Earths: A Deep Dive
39:36 – Infinity Inc. and Roy Thomas
41:49 – Post-Crisis DC Universe
44:57 – Defining a Crisis Event
49:52 – Essential Crisis Experience
53:37 – Collecting Crisis and Beyond
01:14:39 – Final Thoughts on Crisis
01:15:54 – Outro