Infinite Crisis was a good time, but it was a mess of sub-plots, some of which barely touched on the main series.

the magic/rock of eternity/Atlantis stuff? You could miss that entirely.

then there's the villains united bit. Cool, but inessential to the overall storyline. (VU/Secret Six were both better than IC though.)

And the superboy prime stuff.

And the Alex Luthor/multiverse stuff.

And the space stuff, which noone has figured out yet in any way.



Civil War, though, was about one issue. And it remained about one issue. And that paid off, even though I had trouble keeping track of how the non-major characters were aligned.