2022 Cryptozoic CZX Crisis on Infinite Earths - CZX STR PWR #S09 - David Harewood as J’onn J’onzz

I took a powder after dinner, and want to take a few days' break from the Vulture-era content that I'll be generating over the next few weeks. Trading cards seemed to be an expedient way to go, but they've become so micro-niche that I can barely decipher what to call individual cards/sets. This one was apparently devoted to the CW television adaptation of Crisis that crossed over into several of their Greg Berlanti "Arrowverse" TV series. Obviously, COIE would require a budget likely well in excess of Avengers: Endgame-levels to accurately recreate, and a fifth-rank pseudo-network's entire seasonal slate would be priced at a fraction of that. I actually watched most of these, and mostly just remember the regular casts of all the shows pairing off to talk a lot on various common sets in plain clothes. Then occasionally a bunch of them would stand around in a warehouse space in full costume, punctuated with a handful of awkward cameos that hope you can at least recognize a 70-something portly Burt Ward with a theme song flourish, or still get a tingle from that one actress that played a version of Helena Wayne twenty years earlier. I was amused enough to finish it, if they hadn't broken the event up with a winter hiatus, and I never came back. It didn't help that the only one of these shows that I ever watched repeatedly and on purpose was Supergirl, and the crossover was at least two seasons removed from my having bailed on that. So, if you ever felt cheated by a lack of coverage here, just imagine 22 variations on this type of dismissiveness across multiple seasons. Or better yet, take the win and don't.