SilverWook said:
I've been out comic collecting circles for a long time, but I never heard Crisis regarded as crap.
The art was fantastic, but the storyline was wrong-headed and poorly executed.
Destroying the DC Multiverse and replacing it with a single DC Universe just to simplify continuity? They could have simply just stopped telling stories set on Earth-One and started focusing on a new Earth within the Multiverse.
And the Anti-Monitor has the worst motivation of any villain ever -- he's basically a fan of chocolate ice cream who hates vanilla ice cream, therefore he's going to blow up every vanilla ice cream factory in the world. Even the PT villains have better motivation than that.
And don't get me started on all the continuity issues that popped up later as a result of Crisis.