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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Just an awful convoluted mess with dropped plot-threads, big moments that had zero impact on me as a reader, and basically just Grant Morrison being a little too aggressive in his belief that he can pull off anything, because this? This he did not pull off well at all. But at least the art was good, saving this from being a one-star review. Morrison is hit-and-miss with me at the best of times, but holy crap was this a severe miss. Maybe the least enjoyable thing by him that I've read to date, and I've read it twice.
This sucks, like actually terrible. Just so confusing and all over the place only Einstein would get this “deep” writing. Trash barely finished it.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Book Review:
Final Crisis
Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Various
Book 6/200
352 Pages
2010
Rating: 7/10
"Anti-Life is the answer."
Darkseid, evil ruler of Apokolips, has long sought for the Anti-Life Equation, a proof that gives it's user complete control over life. His plans have been thwarted by Earth's heroes, but now that Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash are taken off the table, he has free reign. Can the rest of DC's heroes band together to stop this multiversal threat?
I am a big fan of Grant Morrison's work. Similar to most of their work, this book is quite fun, however, it is a bit hard to understand what's happening. The cool moments in the book are weighed down by the nigh-impenetrable plot. I did enjoy this one, but I feel like it's one that will take multiple re-reads to really understand.
Final Crisis
Written by Grant Morrison
Art by Various
Book 6/200
352 Pages
2010
Rating: 7/10
"Anti-Life is the answer."
Darkseid, evil ruler of Apokolips, has long sought for the Anti-Life Equation, a proof that gives it's user complete control over life. His plans have been thwarted by Earth's heroes, but now that Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and the Flash are taken off the table, he has free reign. Can the rest of DC's heroes band together to stop this multiversal threat?
I am a big fan of Grant Morrison's work. Similar to most of their work, this book is quite fun, however, it is a bit hard to understand what's happening. The cool moments in the book are weighed down by the nigh-impenetrable plot. I did enjoy this one, but I feel like it's one that will take multiple re-reads to really understand.
Grant Morrison's entry into the Crisis saga feels very different from the earlier books in the series. In fact, it has little to do with the multiverse at all until the final act, where it becomes something of a deus ex machina. Instead, the story opens with a superhuman murder mystery which quickly spirals into the tale of a world where the forces of evil finally with the ultimate conflict with the world's superheroes. When the multiversal elements enter the story, it functions less like a Crisis story and more like part of the grand meta-narrative that Grant Morrison has basically spent his entire career writing. As someone who likes the meta-narrative, I enjoyed this book. For people wanting another true DC Crisis, however, it's understandable that they were less than pleased.
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
holy shit that last volume
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
this could’ve been so good, and it just falls flat on it’s face! it’s so slow, and it’s very incoherent like wtf is goin onnnn!!!! also, some of the art in this is straight up ugly idk wtf was happening near the end, but all the men started looking like jojo characters in a BAD kinda way!!!!
So this is what happens when Grant Morrison writes a big event cross-over. Much more successful than his last attempt (Seven Soldiers), it still falls far short of being satisfying. The cascade of outlandish ideas and barely-remembered characters that is common to Morrison is here, but his weakest point has always been characters, and I didn't care if the multiverse ended and killed all of these cardboard people. He can write characters, as Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and parts of the New X-men have proven, but here the ever-escalating events overpower the few moments of genuine humanity (the Tattooed Man and Tawny being the two stand-outs). And it all ends with the hoaryest cliche of someone waking up and it's all been a dream. Well, not really a dream--a major character is still "dead" and it all apparently sorta really happened, but Superman wished and made it (mostly) better. I was amused to see that, based on the Superman Beyond issues, Morrison has made the 52 Earths of the DC Universe a subset of the Bleed multiverse from Wildstorm/Ellis's Authority/Planetary books.