Or, rather, summary of two publisher’s Big Events at Progressive Ruin:
I’ll give Marvel’s Civil War series this: it’s a lot easier to explain to the uninitiated than Infinite Crisis.
“What’s Civil War about?”
“There’s a superhero-related disaster that kills a lot of people, which causes the government to step in and attempt to regulate the heroes, which then divides said heroes into two camps…for regulation and against.”
“What’s Infinite Crisis about?”
“Well, when DC’s multiverse was collapsed down to a single universe as a result of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the Superman of Earth-2 and his wife, Lois Lane, the Superboy from Earth-Prime, the son of Lex Luthor from Earth-3 survived, but return to the modern DC universe to….”
“Whoa, hold on, I think my nose is bleeding.”
Too early into Civil War to have much of an opinion (aside from, “great idea, but way too many places for them to cop out”). But I enjoyed Infinite Crisis (in a CoIE sort of way), and have a moderate interest in the collection of that series when it comes out, just for the record.
The “One Year Later” reboot of most of DC’s series, though, has been a mixed bag — too major a disruption, too much of a chance for bad storytelling to unrealistically tweak characters around into new situations that would have been more obviously rigged if it had been done over the course of a real year. I am enjoying 52, though, a weekly “what went on during the year” book focusing (so far) on lesser lights like Ralph Dibny and Booster Gold.