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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
This was interesting that's for sure. I did do a lot of the reading that is suggested before the book and it did help me have some context going in. However, the book is just pretty hard to follow. I mean I get that this requires some thought and its meant to be great for super fans but I think its a little excessive. There was a few times where the plot points weren't hitting becuase I wasnt able to understand the stakes. Additioanlly, the ending is very abrupt and anticlimatic. On a positive note, there is a lot of really great artwork in here and as a whole what I did follow had some really awesome concept. The batman issues collected here were the best part, very cool. I also enjoyed the metaphor to mental health and the dangers of technology. At the end of the day I am glad that I read this because it did impact the DC universe so as I read more DC it is important to understand what occured.
Whew! That was one action-packed story line! Too bad I missed and didn't understand the last quarter! There are definitely some things to be said for prose and a linear story telling medium. Ah well. I never knew there were so many supers in the DC Universe (Justice League not withstanding). It was fun and rolicking and much like a crazed special effects laden movie where you may not really get what's going on but certainly enjoy the ride.
That being said, why is it that all the Big Bads want evil and destruction and the end of all happiness and joy and etc.? Why can't there be a Big Bad that wants ponies and ice cream?
That being said, why is it that all the Big Bads want evil and destruction and the end of all happiness and joy and etc.? Why can't there be a Big Bad that wants ponies and ice cream?
Confusing at first especially since I had not read the countdown to final crisis. Overall loved the story. Great art work.
Fucktangular is about the only word I have for this. Everything else is just incoherent screaming.
Grant Morrison is an incredible writer, especially of comics. He wants to give comic books a great deal of higher-plane narrative. However, it's so far removed from any sort of flow to the story that it requires constant research to find out what each panel means. I love that Grant Morrison wants to give his readers so much, but, goddamnit, dude, I need to be able to tell others to read the work. Also, I have a hard time feeling bad for characters dying when there are several dozen alternative versions of them, especially after it's been driven, through other Crisis storylines, that some worlds are almost trivial, so who gives a shit about death? There's a part when Superman goes to the future or goes into between the life force of the Multiverse, and it reads like some sort of indie goth poem of brutality. WHAT IS HAPPENING, GRANT? THIS IS LIKE THE END OF DONNIE DARKO TIMES A BILLION, BRO. YOU'RE SO TALENTED, BUT YOU ARE SO OUT THERE FOR MAINSTREAM. BAAAAAATMAAAAAAAAAAN!
There are points in Final Crisis where you feel Morrison’s plot cracking under the pressure of everything he’s trying to do: unify dozens and dozens of D.C. plot lines from years and years of comics that were never meant to be unified; do justice to Jack Kirby’s creations; deal with the death of a couple of iconic superheroes; somehow wrestle the sort of ideas he throws at his more mature Vertigo stuff into the mix; and finally tell a satisfying event comic which brings together years and years of his writing
And inevitably it struggles - the intensity of the ideas, the density of some of the concepts, get the better of the story during the Superman Beyond two issue story, where Morrison co-opts the Monitors into saying something about how a blank page could be mortified about what is drawn on it (the D.C. universe in this case) while having alternate universe Supermen bash the living shite out of each other. If you’re a traditional D.C. reader this must be hell to read, but I’m very much not (beyond anything Morrison and Batman and a few other bits here and there) so I admire his gleeful playing in this universe even if some of the ideas whizz by my head in the process
But there’s some fantastic stuff here - Darkseid actually feels like a proper threat, a nasty and properly dark and perverted figure for once (and accordingly contrasting him with his Marvel inspired counterpart Thanos), and there’s a real dread to seeing Wonder Woman as one of the fallen. There’s lot’s of smaller moments too, such as a wonderful page tribute to Marvelman which would probably anger Alan Moore even more than normal about Morrison but actually feels very fitting in this. And as someone who grew up on Zenith, there’s a lot of parallels to a multiverse of heroes fighting - and occasionally failing - against a bunch of mad space gods. If you’re not a fan of Morrison this will not convince you. If you are then it’s him at his more Morrisonesque
And inevitably it struggles - the intensity of the ideas, the density of some of the concepts, get the better of the story during the Superman Beyond two issue story, where Morrison co-opts the Monitors into saying something about how a blank page could be mortified about what is drawn on it (the D.C. universe in this case) while having alternate universe Supermen bash the living shite out of each other. If you’re a traditional D.C. reader this must be hell to read, but I’m very much not (beyond anything Morrison and Batman and a few other bits here and there) so I admire his gleeful playing in this universe even if some of the ideas whizz by my head in the process
But there’s some fantastic stuff here - Darkseid actually feels like a proper threat, a nasty and properly dark and perverted figure for once (and accordingly contrasting him with his Marvel inspired counterpart Thanos), and there’s a real dread to seeing Wonder Woman as one of the fallen. There’s lot’s of smaller moments too, such as a wonderful page tribute to Marvelman which would probably anger Alan Moore even more than normal about Morrison but actually feels very fitting in this. And as someone who grew up on Zenith, there’s a lot of parallels to a multiverse of heroes fighting - and occasionally failing - against a bunch of mad space gods. If you’re not a fan of Morrison this will not convince you. If you are then it’s him at his more Morrisonesque
You definitely have to have an idea of what's been going on in/with DC Comics for this to make much sense. Still, a pretty good read.
The highest stars of the series for more than one Green Arrow panel.
adventurous
challenging
dark
hopeful
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Final Crisis collects a bunch of interesting ideas and tells them in the most confusing way possible, with a constant barrage of people yelling "Anti-life! Anti-life!" which may be the dumbest name for what the bad guys are implementing in the history of comics.
Ok, probably not. But it's a really bad name.
Ok, probably not. But it's a really bad name.