Originally posted by: theredbaron
Thanks Sage. Say, what does TPB stand for?

And the current crop of Infinite Crisis comics - are they rewrites of the old ones or re-issues?

TPB = Trade PaperBack....collections of multiple issues reprinted in one softcover volume.

Infinite Crisis is a massive story arc that has been in the works at DC for over 4 years. It's a brand new story that pretty much seeks to do what the original Crisis on Infinite Earths did...turn the DC Universe on it's head. There were 5 seperate tie-in miniseries leading into it: Villains United, Raan-Thannagar War, Day of Vengence, The OMAC Project, and the Superman: Sacrifice storyline. There was also a series about 2 years ago called Identity Crisis that really set the whole thing in motion. My favorites in order of preference:

OMAC
Villains United
Sacrifice
Identity Crisis
Day of Vengence
Raan-Thannagar

The Infinite Crisis series itself (7 issues) is fantastically done. Great artwork, great story. There are also tie-ins in the regular monthly titles of other books. Also, after IC is done, the entire DC Universe "skips" ahead 1 year in continuity, with each title publishing "1 Year Later" issues and there's also a 52 issue, 1 a week series called "52" that deals with the IC fall-out.

If you're interested in reading any of the IC arc, I'd suggest not reading too many of our past posts on the subject. We're careful to mark spoilers, but you never know.