There were still some surprises, though, like the complete canonization of the Milestone imprint. For those who don't know their DC history, the Milestone imprint was created by a coalition of African-American creators like the late great Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Chistopher Priest, Michael Davis, and Derek T. Dingle and published by DC. The Killing Joke is now a hundred percent canon as well, as is the controversial Identity Crisis. The issue also brings up the return of Supergirl from Superman/Batman in the early '00s, but doesn't explain how Kara came back, since her death in Crisis is also canon. Waid does a tremendous job of laying out the history of DC from 1986 to 2011, putting the right spotlight and emotional resonance to various events. Read Full Review

New History of the DC Universe #3 covers the post-Crisis time beginning in 1985 through the Aughts up to Final Crisis covering major DCU events while selectively dismissing others, yet still remains a concise recap with few massages to those events that defined that age of DC Comics Read Full Review

Overall, this title continues to succeed as a sweeping history of everything that has unfolded in the DC Universe. Impressively, some of the events covered in this issue are so recent that even I can vividly recall them a reminder of just how current and comprehensive this retelling has become. Read Full Review

While I don't know if this adds anything for those who have read the stories, it's an incredibly thorough recap of 80 years of DC history. Read Full Review

This was a tough challenge for Waid and really any writer trying to condense so much DC history and crossover after crossover into one issue. Waid does end the issue on another exciting cliffhanger that might lead to an even greater test of his writing in making sense of the end of the Post-Crisis/Post Infinite Crisis reality that heads to the New 52 and the Rebirth era. Read Full Review

New History of the DC Universe #3 takes another look at DC's post-Crisis era, but its sweeping, condensed approach keeps the revisions from landing as effectively as intended. Read Full Review

New History of the DC Universe #3 revisits DC's post-Crisis era, but its broad strokes approach doesn't make this latest batch of revisions work the way it wants. Read Full Review

There are plenty of other examples of headache-inducing continuity glitches in this series. But this Supergirl stuff alone is chin-scratching. Read Full Review