Superman: Our Worlds at War - Book 02

by Joe Casey, Jeph Loeb, Phil Jimenez, et al.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563899167
• ISBN13: 9781563899164
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: DC Comics
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Second Compilation Of A Great Crossover, But Incomplete

"Our Worlds At War" is one of the greatest largescale crossovers in comic book history. In the two-volume trade paperback form, though, it is somewhat hampered by the fact that not all of the chapters are present - they've endeavored to get the 'main' chapters in here, but there are a large number of other issues (apparantly considered 'peripheral' to the overall story) that were omitted. The reader can still, of course, buy the issues not reprinted here separately, but it's still a major (and rare) misstep for DC to have not made this collection a set of three larger trade paperbacks to have the complete saga represented. My advice is to buy the trades anyway and try to get as many of the other OWAW tie-ins as possible too. Despite the mishandling of the presentation, I can't bring myself to give this anything less 5 stars. I myself have read most of the crossover but have yet to secure a couple of issues from the early going; I have the "Volume 2" Trade Paperback and a slew of individual issues from the first half of the event, plus issues from the second half that actually fit in 'in between' individual issues reprinted here. I really wanted to review "Volume One" as well, but I don't have every issue reprinted within (even though overall I have most of the first half, including issues not reprinted in trade form). Some of the Trade Paperbacks I've done writeups on I have done based on the original issues reprinted (as opposed to the TPB format), but only when I have the complete material. I don't with OWAW Vol. 1, so I'll have to just do a writeup for this volume. Now the crossover itself (if you're still reading, thanks for putting up with that preamble) - this is bigger and more far-ranging than any event DC has done since at least "Zero Hour", bigger even than "The Final Night" - far bigger in fact since this is a galactic, time-spanning conflagration that threatens to eventually consume the whole universe, and it crossed into numerous titles (although the title of the TPBs would imply it's an entirely Superman-oriented event that's not really true - the Man Of Steel and his cast play the biggest role but it involves just about all the main characters of the DCU. This volume actually does a better job of presenting a wider cross-section of the books involved than Volume 1 did). The great adversary of the event is Imperiex, a Galactus-level character who commands legions of "Imperiex Probes" that are basically smaller, non-sentient versions of himself, each of them powerful enough to alone be a challenge to Superman. Opposing this world-destroying entity is a vast coalition of planets, into which Earth is inducted at the beginning of the event. So great is the threat that not only have worlds like Almerac and Tamaran and the survivors of Kalanor (Despero's homeworld), destroyed by Imperiex prior to the OWAW Volume 1 TPB at the beginning of "Superman: Or Worlds At War Secret Files # 1", (which REALLY should have been includ