Crisis on Infinite Earths

I loved it.

I read this back in the mid 80's when it came out and re-read it before the CW superhero shows do their version. It feels a little dated and I'm sure I missed stuff because I am more familiar with the Marvel universe than the DC one. But it was a good read and the art is very good.
I have decided to start saying thinks like “Bah!” and refer to myself as “Mrs. Archies little boy” and to call people “dolts”.

Gosh, it' s a slog isn't it. Crisis is a landmark of event comics but I have got to say that this is definitely a bit of a chore.
I have been off comics for quite a while and thought I would read some old stuff as well as new stuff, so have been revisiting things that I remember in the past.
I have got to say that I can't recall the crisis stuff that much and looking back over it, it still seems a bit vague.
And I think I might like to leave it that way to be honest. I think that sometimes when you go back and look at things it is best sometimes to leave them in a rose tinted past that was better than what you actually remembered.
The idea for the story is good, the artwork is excellent, but the rest of it.
I think the main character, Captain Exposition takes centre stage in this comic. There is so much dialogue, thought bubbles and God knows what else, I sometimes lose track.
I mean I cannot remember some of the dialogue in comics being so bad. This at times makes me think it should have been written in the fifties, not the eighties.
I mean I remember reading comics at this time and they were ace. Stuff like cerebus the aardvark, Alan moore, Frank Millar.
This does not come into the same league.
In short, get the Wikipedia revision notes. It will be easier.

The story and art shows its age. It's ambitious in scope but gets too sprawling and confusing to be enjoyable.

It's rare that a comics crossover series actually lives up to its own hype about how world-changing it would be, but the Crisis lived up to that hype at the time. Prior to it, DC had a multiverse - a bunch of different Earths, each with their own stable of superheroes and villians. Then the Crisis happened, and DC was left with one Earth, with all of those heroes living on it, and central characters like Superman, Hawkman, and Wonder Woman had their histories completely rebooted.

I can appreciate the concept of a multiverse; from a writing standpoint, it gives the writers at DC comics an opportunity to tell a bunch of different types of stories with a bunch of different characters. My problem with it, though, is that in practice you end up with a bunch of different Supermen and Supermen analogues, and essentially the same stories beiing told with different window-dressing. It seems like a waste of a great concept, so I like the fact that they tried to simplify that into a single timeline. My first exposure to DC was all post-Crisis, as well, so the whole thing just seemed convoluted.

Of course, now DC's back to having a multiverse again, so the entire thing's been rendered moot.