I'm just reading it. Turns out the #6 I downloaded is an April Fool's gag - there's no pages in it. So I gotta get #6 before I finish #7.
I have to say - it's a bit poo.
I did judge it unfairly - #1 is absolute tripe. It's unbelievably bad. So's #4. #2, 3, and 5 are quite interesting, but are poorly handled.
The stories don't have any meaning behind them unless you know a lot about DC. I understand them, but I really didn't care about the Flash thing. The Flash appears once in #2 or something, then out of the blue, all the Flashes appear in #4 and dispose of Superman. I'm assuming one of them was Barry Allen or something. The same is said for the Earth 2 guys.
And man, Superboy Prime is a **** villain. Whine, whine, kill. Wow. He's an annoying dick.
The whole thing feels kinda rushed. Out of nowhere, all this trouble is occurring for no reason, then it's explained it's happening because this Earth is "bad". I mean... eh.
I'm just reading it out of curiousity. It's not very interesting or exciting. I just don't care about the characters, save Booster Gold and Animal Man, who's in it for a page. Nightwing and Batman are pretty cool. Power Girl's okay. Earth 2 Superman is far more interesting than our real Superman, until he just goes crazy because Earth 2 people go crazy, and it's all someone else's fault.
Yeah, I'm not enjoying it really. It just reads like the Earth X trilogy badly crammed into 7 issues (well, 5 to me so far).
I honestly, honestly think Infinite Crisis, instead of being a 7-issue series, should've been a huge, epic trilogy, the DC equivalent of the Earth X trilogy.
First Crisis on Infinite Worlds is part 1. Therefore, we'd have two new ones. Infinite Countdown which details all the countdown tales whilst building up Infinite Crisis, over 14 issues and perhaps a one-shot or two. Then, Infinite Crisis, another 14 issues with a few one-shots (Power Girl, Earth 2, The Flashes) and so forth.
I'm not joking when I say this story had the potential to be something phenomenal. Luthor's multiverse machine was quite clever, but it's not particularly well-thought out or executed, just explained away in a page.
I think with more time and issues devoted to the story and its setting, the creative team could've effectively built meaning out of this story, instead of this vapid crossover event that doesn't really make me care about it one way or another.
Still, I must admit, it really had potential, and it's better than I thought it was.