Of all the Infinite Crisis miniseries, The OMAC Project is the one that most obviously continues on from Countdown to Infinite Crisis. This book is also another one that's a very clear prequel to Infinite Crisis as it ends on a cliffhanger (which unfortunately undercuts this story's independence a bit, but so it goes) [3+/5]. But I imagine there are a lot of easter eggs for people who read Crisis on Infinite Earth or have an important knowledge of the hundreds of heroes and villains that show in the event.

I did discover some significant material I'd not read before, the one-shots that are interspersed with the Infinite Crisis mini-series at the end of the omnibus.Spies with powerful toys and their agenda, a secret supervillain society forming, magic being under attack, a space war, and superheroes not getting along and breaking up the justice league. But there's a good chance you'd enjoy the main event even whithout these; it'll just be more confusing. I apologize for slamming some of Rucka’s work in my previous reviews, he shined through out these stories.

That said, this is such a product of the mid-2000s, when everyone was keen on deconstructing superheroes and morphing Silver Age comic characters into grim dudes who cut bloody logos into their chests. Of course one can't speak of Countdown without addressing the elephant in the room: the fan favorite character killed within and the other fan favorite character who was darkened irrevocably. I mean, just as you can expect with any DC crisis event, a lot of action, fast paced shit going on, it all seems like doom and gloom however, in the end…everyone walks away unscathed. Aside fron Crisis on Infinite Earths and Identity Crisis (and one should really read those previously to get the most of this), it includes everything you need to fully enjoy this massive event.This meta-commentary seems to argue that, despite claims to the contrary by the comics fan-base, if those characters had not changed changed and kept up with the times, comics wouldn't survive as long as they did.