This is not getting the importance it should get.
The Good
When this volume was first announced I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting a new story but rather a big collection that would be useful to new readers to understand the history of the DC universe, which at times can be difficult to follow, to say the least. They make so many changes with origin stories that I thought this would be a good opportunity to set everything right.The bad
First of all Batman smiles. Batman should smile more than twice every year and this year he already smiled more than enough in the widening gyre. Batman doesn't smile, he is not happy, he barely has a sense of humor and the only characters that can pull out this complex task are certain members of the bat family. And even when he smiles he denies it. So seeing him smile while shaking hands with Dr. Fate is very out of place. Second, Black Canary is not a founding member of the JLA. Why? It's way beyond me while take this great character out of continuity. Third, the scene where the two flashes meet. The original issue where these to characters met is a legend, one of the first appearances of the multiverse and now they just met. Very cheap in my opinion. The art has been very poor, this volume could have been very important for DC, this is the kind of volumes where Alex Ross should be doing the covers, and they should have a completely different artist for each to have a different look for every era.Finally
I'll keep reading just to see what is changed from the crisis and be angry about it.
