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Countdown to Crisis Chronology (Part 3 of 3)
Friday, January 27
By Paul T. SemonesDOWNLOAD THE CHRONOLOGY, VERSION 1
Concluding this three-part series investigating the chronology of the DC Universe from the Countdown 80-page special to Infinite Crisis (read Part 1 and Part 2), today some of the trickiest parts of the chronology are explored and explained.
INFINITE CRISIS #1 (Perez Cover) (Oct 2005)
(Beware: the rest of this column will be, inescapably, SPOILER-HEAVY.)
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Yet Infinite Crisis #1 seems to place the Rock of Eternity’s destruction, the destruction of the Watchtower, and a startling array of other events all on the same day Superboy is brooding in front of the television – Monday.
While I am reluctant to distort the integrity of the core book itself, and while I recognize that my research on this Sunday/Monday timeframe is not complete, I am nearing the conclusion that Infinite Crisis #1 is deliberately told in a jumbled sequence that suits Johns’ preferred dramatic pacing, and cannot be read as a literal chronological sequence.
