LoginThe the most fantastic and extraordinary battle for Earth begins in this awesome book. Darkseid returns from the dead and threatens to destroy all reality. He has mastered the Anti-Life Equation and uses it to eradicate all free will. Superman, Batman and all of Earth's heroes rally together to stop him. Even some of Earth's villains, such as Lex Luthor, are so disgusted by Darkseid's plans that they form an alliance with the heroes.
Overall, this is a respectable series. It brings an end to the story of the New Gods and sets one of the most fantastic Batman stories in motion. And it punches Countdown to Final Crisis right in the gut, since one of the panel states "Don't worry about Countdown." Dear God, Countdown was awful.
The bad side is that some of Countdown's storylines are left hanging in FC, and this series has to pay the price by trying to pick up the pieces. Let's face it, Final Crisis didn't finish those threads, but Grant Morrison did his best in a satisfying way.
This basically marks an end to an era of the DC Universe and begins another.
Final Crisis Reviews
Final Crisis review
Posted : 12 years, 3 months ago on 12 February 2012 07:24
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Garbage
Posted : 12 years, 9 months ago on 18 August 2011 08:33
Disclaimer upfront - I don't read any DC or superhero comics in general, other than Batman and I'm not terribly familiar with the characters outside of movies and the occasional graphic novel (and by that I mean 2-3 books in my lifetime) featuring one or more of them.
Final Crisis feels like an experiment that aims to see how much bullshit can be packed into a single book. It starts off reasonably well, the first issue has clarity in the storyline and hints at interesting things ahead. It's rapidly downhill into the gutter from there.
The main problem is that Grant Morrison writes like he is Arthur Clarke, when he actually is - Grant Morrison. This is also the second problem, Grant Morrison writes like this is an Arthur Clarke book, when in fact it's a DC crossover, and a Crisis crossover at that. A Crisis requires that very conceivable character in the DC cannon make an appearance, which obviously destroys any hope of a coherent story. Trying to tell a story that goes beyond a simple action/fantasy/sci-fi adventure story is a mistake of, ahem, cosmic proportions. The result is that while there are some decent ideas in this book (decent, not great, Morrison isn't Clarke), the execution is horrible primarily because the story has barely any coherence. Characters flit in and out, the continuity barely makes any sense and I was wishing for some of that 'Anti-life' myself to make it through to the end.
It's not as if a story of such proportions cannot be pulled off, but you have to understand the constraints. 'Kingdom Come' is a good example of a BIG crossover that was successful. The story didn't try to do too many things and kept the focus on a select group of characters, even as there was a huge supporting cast. Even the mildly complex ideas that Morrison dreams up can work, but the characters have to be very focused. An example is how Morrison made it work, for the most part, in the Batman R.I.P. storyline. Putting the two things together - complex ideas and too many characters, results in disaster. You can't explain the ideas effectively when you keep jumping from character to character and all that time trying to unsuccessfully explain your idea means you can't do any justice to the characters themselves either. Morrison refuses to understand the constraints and the result in total garbage.
Anyway, this was a total waste of about 4 hours it took to me to finally finish this book. I could have done it in less, but I had to keep going back to try and understand what the heck was going on, not that it helped. Unless you read a good chunk of DC's regular series, I doubt you'll make sense of more than 20% of what's going on here. If you do read a good chunk, you might fare better but you'll regret reading it still.
Final Crisis feels like an experiment that aims to see how much bullshit can be packed into a single book. It starts off reasonably well, the first issue has clarity in the storyline and hints at interesting things ahead. It's rapidly downhill into the gutter from there.
The main problem is that Grant Morrison writes like he is Arthur Clarke, when he actually is - Grant Morrison. This is also the second problem, Grant Morrison writes like this is an Arthur Clarke book, when in fact it's a DC crossover, and a Crisis crossover at that. A Crisis requires that very conceivable character in the DC cannon make an appearance, which obviously destroys any hope of a coherent story. Trying to tell a story that goes beyond a simple action/fantasy/sci-fi adventure story is a mistake of, ahem, cosmic proportions. The result is that while there are some decent ideas in this book (decent, not great, Morrison isn't Clarke), the execution is horrible primarily because the story has barely any coherence. Characters flit in and out, the continuity barely makes any sense and I was wishing for some of that 'Anti-life' myself to make it through to the end.
It's not as if a story of such proportions cannot be pulled off, but you have to understand the constraints. 'Kingdom Come' is a good example of a BIG crossover that was successful. The story didn't try to do too many things and kept the focus on a select group of characters, even as there was a huge supporting cast. Even the mildly complex ideas that Morrison dreams up can work, but the characters have to be very focused. An example is how Morrison made it work, for the most part, in the Batman R.I.P. storyline. Putting the two things together - complex ideas and too many characters, results in disaster. You can't explain the ideas effectively when you keep jumping from character to character and all that time trying to unsuccessfully explain your idea means you can't do any justice to the characters themselves either. Morrison refuses to understand the constraints and the result in total garbage.
Anyway, this was a total waste of about 4 hours it took to me to finally finish this book. I could have done it in less, but I had to keep going back to try and understand what the heck was going on, not that it helped. Unless you read a good chunk of DC's regular series, I doubt you'll make sense of more than 20% of what's going on here. If you do read a good chunk, you might fare better but you'll regret reading it still.
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