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A review by filmbusterspaul
Final Crisis by Don Ho, Tom Nguyen, Norm Rapmund, Drew Geraci, Rodney Ramos, Carlos Pacheco, Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke, Grant Morrison, Jay Babcock, J.G. Jones, Marco Rudy, Derek Fridolfs, Matthew Clark, Walden Wong, Rob Hunter, Jesús Merino
3.0
It all feels incredibly disjointed and centres around characters and stories that have clearly been fleshed out in other books, yet here you are supposed to just kind of guess what’s happening… and I didn’t know what was happening most of the time!
Yet crucially there were many glimmers of greatness throughout. In the fleeting moments when I felt like I had a grip of the story it was tantalising stuff, until it very quickly retreats back to jumbled madness again.
The best segment though was actually the Batman centric story, which was clearly a loose tie-in but nicely explored the history of the caped crusader as Apokolips residents explore his brain.
Overall though there is something great to unpick here, but it is clearly mixed up in confusing threads that need to be unpicked in subsequent re-reads, which time will tell if I can be bothered to actually do.
Yet crucially there were many glimmers of greatness throughout. In the fleeting moments when I felt like I had a grip of the story it was tantalising stuff, until it very quickly retreats back to jumbled madness again.
The best segment though was actually the Batman centric story, which was clearly a loose tie-in but nicely explored the history of the caped crusader as Apokolips residents explore his brain.
Overall though there is something great to unpick here, but it is clearly mixed up in confusing threads that need to be unpicked in subsequent re-reads, which time will tell if I can be bothered to actually do.