A review by tbr_the_unconquered
Final Crisis by Grant Morrison

2.0

Without having enough knowledge of what happened before or after this story and without even having knowledge of DC’s full pantheon of heroes and villains, I began reading this. This in hindsight was a huge mistake for I could barely make sense of what was going on. Grant Morrison mixes a lot of stories, characters and scenarios in a huge cauldron and without warning he upended the whole thing over my head. There was so much happening all around me that I could barely make any sense.

In the fight of good v/s evil, the final victory was with evil and Darkseid rises to crush earth under his boot heel. Heroes all over the world fall and are enslaved by him. The only one who stands in his way is Superman and while Kal-El and his multiverse versions battle for surivival across the realms, Diana turns evil and Batman is incarcerated. What follows is the last stand of the heroes against Darkseid. While he does not get much by way of presence in the overall story structure, the hardiness of Batman really stands out in Morrison’s storytelling. Superman however is unleashed in all his might and glory all through the story and his final victory is one of the most dazzling instances of it all.

I can confidently say that I read it but I haven’t understood it.