About the Author

Geoff Johns is an award-winning writer and one of the most popular contemporary comic book writers today. Johns is the author of theNew York Timesbest-selling graphic novels Aquaman- The Trench, Blackest Night, Green Lantern- The Sinestro Corps War, Justice League- Origin, Superman- Brainiac and Batman- Earth One which hit number one on the bestseller list. He is also known for transforming Green Lantern into one of the most critically and commercially successful franchises in comics. Johns has written for various other media, including episodes of Smallville, Arrow, and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken, for which he was nominated along with his co-writers for an Emmy. He is the Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment and resides in Los Angeles, California.

Phil Jimenez is one of the most talented artists in all of comics. Best known for his work on the bestselling miniseries, Inifinite Crisis-written by Geoff Johns-and Spider-Man, Jimenez's realistic and detailed art style brings the world of superheroes to life in a way that very few artists can capture. He is currently writing and illustrating Superwoman as a part of DC Rebirth.

Reviews

Gr 7 Up-Prior to DC Comics's revamp of its superhero universe in Infinite Crisis, a series of prelude miniseries were released to set up the larger conflicts that the central title would address. Despite the fact that each of these series-including Greg Rucka's The OMAC Project and Gail Simone's Villains United (both 2006)-ended abruptly and had a promised follow-up "special" yet to be published, they were collected in trade paperback. Unable to be included in the already-released trades or compiled with the massive Infinite Crisis collection, they appear in their semi-orphaned state in this book. The title is actually apt, but it doesn't make the effect any less jagged: the stories are clearly continuations of distant events, and they have only the most tenuous of internal connections. To use popular comic-universe terminology, they are a tangled mass of "continuity," helping to draw lines between other books, events, and situations. The varied artwork is quite good, and the stories are not without drama and effective moments, but this volume would be lost on casual readers; the characters are plentiful and the situations convoluted, as the massive cast of practically the entire superhero world shows up to be counted. As a supplement to collections that contain the previously mentioned titles, it would be welcome and quite useful, but it would be a mystifying morass if read on its own.-Benjamin Russell, Belmont High School, NH Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.