Some thoughts about Generations Forged #1

What does this new threat to the Multiverse wants?

Heroes from different eras and timelines are reunited to face a common enemy once again, but that person might just want to have a happy life.

The sequel and conclusion to Generations Shattered is here. I initially compared this sort of event with Dan Jurgens' own Zero Hour but in a more positive light. This time however, some of the flaws of that 90s event are getting more and more apparent.

Jurgens, Robert Venditti and Andy Schmidt deliver an overly chaotic story that doesn't seem to have a point at all. It wants to be a Crisis, it has the different realities, incarnations and settings to be one but unfortunately an overly-erratic pacing (even for Crisis events standards) makes the flow of the read really hard to follow and there are not enough interesting details in each segment like in the classic Crisis events that make you invested enough in them.

Is not like there are not compelling elements though. I'm particularly fond of the segments between Steel and Superboy (clearly handled by Jurgens) and the antagonist's motivations can be interesting and unique in comparison to others but ultimately the story is dedicated to mostly random references to the Multiverse and the plot is not dense enough to justify such amount of pages dedicated to it. I just don't see the point of all this.

Mike Perkins, Marco Santucci, Bernard Chang, Paul Pelletier, Joe Prado, Colleen Doran, Bryan Hitch and Jurgens himself handle the pencils and while all of them do a solid job, their styles can be too different from one another which doesn't help the erratic pacing at all and sadly, there's no George Perez to give that level of detail for this kind of crossover.

Disappointing, wish it was better executed overall.