There was a war in heaven. Evil won. It's a compelling tagline that has been attached to Final Crisis since it was first announced way back when and, now, we finally get to see the magnum opus of the Multiverse from Morrison and Jones.As always, with my reviews, spoilers this way be. Read on at your own risk. Oh, and this is just a preview copy and the rest of the reviews will come out tomorrow when the books are actually released.
One last warning for the wayward travellers.
SPOILERS
FINAL CRISIS #1 (OF 7)
Written by Grant Morrison
Art by J.G. Jones
Where to begin, where to begin? I suppose, like all good stories, I should start at the beginning.
As promised many moons ago, Morrison began this story with Anthro, The First Boy. It seems Metron, in his new silver body suit, is responsible for bestowing humanity with the gift of fire. However, this is no gift, as the narrative from a Detective Turpin ominously states that fire was just another great idea we used to kill ourselves.
After several pages of grunting and engaging dialouge, such as, "?", and, "!", we jump back to the present day to the death of Orion. This was one section of the book that confused me. It seems Orion died in Countdown after stumbling off from his battle with Darkseid. Superman was even there and told them to let him go die in an alleyway somewhere. Yet, in this issue, Orion seems to have gone to heaven, died in a war with Darkseid and the evil New Gods and has fallen to Earth to die in another alley, but not before handing off some more ominous warnings of a war in heaven.
My confusion arises from the heroes' reaction to his death. Superman seems surprised to see him dead, as if he had never seen him die, or stumble off to die, in his battle with Darkseid and everyone talks about increased evil New God activity on Earth and other nonsense when we all know the New Gods died in Countdown and everyone should be in shock that any of them are even alive.
This is not Morrison's fault. He writes his stories and doesn't particularly care about what other people are doing most of the time. It falls solely on the editors' shoulders and their complete inability to either correct the disaster that was Countdown or to rein in Morrison to have his story line up properly with the year long, several hundred dollar investment that many people wasted their time on.
Continuing with Orion's death reactions, we see the Guardians perturbed by the death (uh, didn't they see any of this going on in the universe during Countdown, specifically when Superman witnessed Lightray's death on Earth?) and quarantining Earth, going so far as to block all entrance and exit from Earth's gravity well and deploying not one, but an entire battaltion of Alpha Lanterns to the scene. The Guardians have always struck me as some of the most powerful beings in the universe and I always placed them a full tier or more above the New Gods in the cosmic power rankings. As such, this is another reaction, coupled with their surprise at his death, despite the public battles with other New Gods and their deaths on Earth prior to this, that didn't jive with me.
From here, we follow Detective Turpin as the Question puts him on the road to the Dark Side Club after Turpin waxes philosophical about the escalating arms race of crime with battles now taking place in the clouds instead of the alleys. This leads him to Boss "Dark Side", who has body guards in the form of Kalibak and Kanto, two "humans", at least in appearance.
Turpin and Boss Dark Side discuss the disappearance of several children before Dark Side tells us of the war in heaven and how he won. He tells us that he taught the children "the equation", which he asks the children to show him what they've learned about "Anti-Life", and then introduces Turpin to some scary looking children with glowing red eyes who, I assume, are going to kill him, since we saw the Black Racer flying above Turpin in earlier scenes. Are these children similar to Piper in Countdown, who was revealed to have aspects of the Anti-Life Equation or has Dark Side embued them with the power?
Meanwhile, we get some updates on the Rogues and other villains from Salvation Run. Seems Captain Cold is leading a civil protest made up of super villains, all of whom we see the JLA and police in the act of arresting as they scream about a peaceful protest against vigilante brutality and how the heroes are fascists.
Seems a bit odd considering the government is the one that sent them to the prison world, not the heroes. Otherwise, the heroes stop these people from murdering and using their powers to take over the world every other day of the week. Doesn't lend credability to their protest or claims, but I imagine we'll see more of this. Of note, Red Tornado is up and about in this issue and no longer confined to the computer program. First I've heard or seen of this development.
On the opposite end of the rogue spectrum, Dr Light and Mirror Master are busy claiming Metron's Chair from a junkyard for Libra and Light is busy trying to score some date rape drugs from Mirror Master during their screen time. I'm no rapist expert, but do they honestly brag and go on and on about how they rape people and actively talk to people about finding ways to rape people? It just seems so forced and Morrison isn't the only one guilty of this. Also, I'm not sure how Metron's chair ended up in a dumpyard or where he went post-Anthro fire scene.
After aquiring the chair, we flash to Libra, who seems to have a multiple personality disorder, as he jumps from preacher to random super villain to almost childlike dialogue. One bit of dialogue that caught my attention was when Libra referenced the Twilight of the Gods. It's not the same, but it immediately reminded me of Alan Moore's proposed Twilight of the Super-Heroes. Of course, Libra refers to it as, "A full-on, no bullshit, Twilight of the Gods.", which is one of the random personalities I was referring to above and the words just didn't seem to be coming from the same person just a page earlier.
Lex, Grodd, Savage and several other "big name" villains still aren't buying Libra's speil and it seems to require a demonstartion. As seen in last week's JLA, the Human Flame wanted to the Martian Manhunter dead and we saw him warped in the last panel by Libra. Libra trots the Manhunter out for all to see and, as a demonstration of how he will grant them all their heart's desires, he spears J'onn through the chest with his now flaming staff, immolating the Manhunter at the same time and, as revealed at the end of the issue, if not painfully obvious, kills him.
The last major development from this issue comes from the Monitors. They have become fully unique individuals now, with secrets, loves, heroes and villains, and they are standing in judgement over Earth-51's Monitor, Nix Uotan. They hold him responsible for the "loss of moving part: Universe 51", which, I suppose, means the entire universe was wiped out in Countdown and the Great Disaster of Earth-51 actually destroyed the universe instead of turning everyone into furries.
The tribunal finds Nix Uotan guilty and strip him of all his powers and force him to live out his life in exile as a mortal. He wakes up to see the news of Green Arrow cursing out the villains for killing Martian Manhunter in an interview with a random reporter, ending our issue.
There is one scene, just before Nix wakes up on the final pages, where Anthro is warped to Kamandi's time period, a few feet from Kamandi, to be precise, near the Statue of Liberty. Kamandi screams at him that Metron gave him "a weapon against the gods" and that they need it now, as poor Anthro just looks on confused.
Verdict - Must Read. There's a lot of stuff going on here and Morrison throws at us and advances so many different plots that it'll take most people several viewings to sort through it all. For instance, I missed the Black Racer scene above Turpin the first time around and should have expected his death after seeing him above the dead Orion.
I'm not sure how much this draws on the Seven Soldiers stories Morrison wrote, as I have not read them, but his Dark Side and New Gods seem to draw on what little I know of the Seven Soldiers. I had no problem following the issue, but I still feel like I might be missing some small, but important detail by not having read them.
In the end, I feel Final Crisis has put a lot on the table, much like Secret Invasion #1 did, but, unlike SI, everything feels like an important and noteworthy event instead of generic action scenes that happened every other week in the Marvel Universe. Let's hope the rest of the series lives up to this promising start.
SPOILERS
FINAL CRISIS #1 (OF 7)Written by Grant Morrison
Art by J.G. Jones
Where to begin, where to begin? I suppose, like all good stories, I should start at the beginning.
As promised many moons ago, Morrison began this story with Anthro, The First Boy. It seems Metron, in his new silver body suit, is responsible for bestowing humanity with the gift of fire. However, this is no gift, as the narrative from a Detective Turpin ominously states that fire was just another great idea we used to kill ourselves.
After several pages of grunting and engaging dialouge, such as, "?", and, "!", we jump back to the present day to the death of Orion. This was one section of the book that confused me. It seems Orion died in Countdown after stumbling off from his battle with Darkseid. Superman was even there and told them to let him go die in an alleyway somewhere. Yet, in this issue, Orion seems to have gone to heaven, died in a war with Darkseid and the evil New Gods and has fallen to Earth to die in another alley, but not before handing off some more ominous warnings of a war in heaven.My confusion arises from the heroes' reaction to his death. Superman seems surprised to see him dead, as if he had never seen him die, or stumble off to die, in his battle with Darkseid and everyone talks about increased evil New God activity on Earth and other nonsense when we all know the New Gods died in Countdown and everyone should be in shock that any of them are even alive.
This is not Morrison's fault. He writes his stories and doesn't particularly care about what other people are doing most of the time. It falls solely on the editors' shoulders and their complete inability to either correct the disaster that was Countdown or to rein in Morrison to have his story line up properly with the year long, several hundred dollar investment that many people wasted their time on.
Continuing with Orion's death reactions, we see the Guardians perturbed by the death (uh, didn't they see any of this going on in the universe during Countdown, specifically when Superman witnessed Lightray's death on Earth?) and quarantining Earth, going so far as to block all entrance and exit from Earth's gravity well and deploying not one, but an entire battaltion of Alpha Lanterns to the scene. The Guardians have always struck me as some of the most powerful beings in the universe and I always placed them a full tier or more above the New Gods in the cosmic power rankings. As such, this is another reaction, coupled with their surprise at his death, despite the public battles with other New Gods and their deaths on Earth prior to this, that didn't jive with me.
From here, we follow Detective Turpin as the Question puts him on the road to the Dark Side Club after Turpin waxes philosophical about the escalating arms race of crime with battles now taking place in the clouds instead of the alleys. This leads him to Boss "Dark Side", who has body guards in the form of Kalibak and Kanto, two "humans", at least in appearance.Turpin and Boss Dark Side discuss the disappearance of several children before Dark Side tells us of the war in heaven and how he won. He tells us that he taught the children "the equation", which he asks the children to show him what they've learned about "Anti-Life", and then introduces Turpin to some scary looking children with glowing red eyes who, I assume, are going to kill him, since we saw the Black Racer flying above Turpin in earlier scenes. Are these children similar to Piper in Countdown, who was revealed to have aspects of the Anti-Life Equation or has Dark Side embued them with the power?
Meanwhile, we get some updates on the Rogues and other villains from Salvation Run. Seems Captain Cold is leading a civil protest made up of super villains, all of whom we see the JLA and police in the act of arresting as they scream about a peaceful protest against vigilante brutality and how the heroes are fascists.Seems a bit odd considering the government is the one that sent them to the prison world, not the heroes. Otherwise, the heroes stop these people from murdering and using their powers to take over the world every other day of the week. Doesn't lend credability to their protest or claims, but I imagine we'll see more of this. Of note, Red Tornado is up and about in this issue and no longer confined to the computer program. First I've heard or seen of this development.
On the opposite end of the rogue spectrum, Dr Light and Mirror Master are busy claiming Metron's Chair from a junkyard for Libra and Light is busy trying to score some date rape drugs from Mirror Master during their screen time. I'm no rapist expert, but do they honestly brag and go on and on about how they rape people and actively talk to people about finding ways to rape people? It just seems so forced and Morrison isn't the only one guilty of this. Also, I'm not sure how Metron's chair ended up in a dumpyard or where he went post-Anthro fire scene.After aquiring the chair, we flash to Libra, who seems to have a multiple personality disorder, as he jumps from preacher to random super villain to almost childlike dialogue. One bit of dialogue that caught my attention was when Libra referenced the Twilight of the Gods. It's not the same, but it immediately reminded me of Alan Moore's proposed Twilight of the Super-Heroes. Of course, Libra refers to it as, "A full-on, no bullshit, Twilight of the Gods.", which is one of the random personalities I was referring to above and the words just didn't seem to be coming from the same person just a page earlier.
Lex, Grodd, Savage and several other "big name" villains still aren't buying Libra's speil and it seems to require a demonstartion. As seen in last week's JLA, the Human Flame wanted to the Martian Manhunter dead and we saw him warped in the last panel by Libra. Libra trots the Manhunter out for all to see and, as a demonstration of how he will grant them all their heart's desires, he spears J'onn through the chest with his now flaming staff, immolating the Manhunter at the same time and, as revealed at the end of the issue, if not painfully obvious, kills him.The last major development from this issue comes from the Monitors. They have become fully unique individuals now, with secrets, loves, heroes and villains, and they are standing in judgement over Earth-51's Monitor, Nix Uotan. They hold him responsible for the "loss of moving part: Universe 51", which, I suppose, means the entire universe was wiped out in Countdown and the Great Disaster of Earth-51 actually destroyed the universe instead of turning everyone into furries.
The tribunal finds Nix Uotan guilty and strip him of all his powers and force him to live out his life in exile as a mortal. He wakes up to see the news of Green Arrow cursing out the villains for killing Martian Manhunter in an interview with a random reporter, ending our issue.There is one scene, just before Nix wakes up on the final pages, where Anthro is warped to Kamandi's time period, a few feet from Kamandi, to be precise, near the Statue of Liberty. Kamandi screams at him that Metron gave him "a weapon against the gods" and that they need it now, as poor Anthro just looks on confused.
Verdict - Must Read. There's a lot of stuff going on here and Morrison throws at us and advances so many different plots that it'll take most people several viewings to sort through it all. For instance, I missed the Black Racer scene above Turpin the first time around and should have expected his death after seeing him above the dead Orion.
I'm not sure how much this draws on the Seven Soldiers stories Morrison wrote, as I have not read them, but his Dark Side and New Gods seem to draw on what little I know of the Seven Soldiers. I had no problem following the issue, but I still feel like I might be missing some small, but important detail by not having read them.
In the end, I feel Final Crisis has put a lot on the table, much like Secret Invasion #1 did, but, unlike SI, everything feels like an important and noteworthy event instead of generic action scenes that happened every other week in the Marvel Universe. Let's hope the rest of the series lives up to this promising start.
Follow each of us on Twitter:
14 comments:
I thought Dr. Light was just looking for some good ol' fashioned viagra on my first read, but maybe that was me just hoping that they were pushing him more to the "basic perv" side as opposed to the "rapey mcraperstein" he's been lately.
If you didn't touch Seven Soldiers at all, you're totally missing out on something fantastic. The bookends, Manhattan Guardian, Frankenstein!, Zatanna, and Bulleteer were all great. Klarion and Shining Knight weren't bad either. Mister Miracle, unfortunately, made little to no sense, went through like, three artists and was really low on the Morrison idea-assault style. Really, it just seemed like he wanted to make all the New Gods really bad racial stereotypes. (Although I laughed at the rebranding of "Motherboxxx.") Wasn't that Mister Miracle with the NY Marathon Diddy Mohawk in FC?
I've been reading a lot on the "date rape drug" and it seems a lot of people think it meant Viagra. Maybe I'm looking at it too hard, but I see Viagra as somethign that's over the counter and easy to come by, even for wanted super villains who could be in and out of a drug store to steal it or sneak in with a hoodie.
With his rape background, I'd expect him to drop the date rape drug on her if he was looking for a random drug from someone like Mirror Master. I don't exactly expect men to start asking for drugs for their erectile disfunctions from their partners in crime. Most have troulbe admitting to their partners or doctor, let alone another guy.
Again, maybe I'm looking for something that isn't there, but that's how I interpretted the scene.
If Final Crisis remains the way this first issue was, I'm thinking of grabbing Seven Soldiers in the near future. Has it been released in trade or hardcover yet? I'll probably look into it at the shop and, if I get a chance to flip through, may just buy it then.
Oh, and I don't know about Mister Miracle, but there was a poster on a wall with him and some handcuffs on his hands during one of the Green Lantern scenes. Didn't notice him in the actual book though, unless he's as different looking as you describe him.
I thought it was the Seven Soldiers "Shiloh Norman" Mr. Miracle on the last page originally, but now I don't know. He was presented as a celebrity escape artist, like David Blain by way of Puff Daddy, and that looked like a really crummy apartment. So on second glance I thought maybe it was New Firestorm, what with the sun poster right behind his head, since he has big ties to the Anti-Life equation. But the whole thing of Mr. Miracle was that he escaped from a black hole, so maybe the space posters make sense that way? I don't know. Maybe someone that knows the character models better can weigh in.
Seven Soldiers I think is completely traded, arranged in the order of release dates, which is the best way to read it. All the miniseries stand on their own, which is still a good way to read them, BUT part of the fun was how they all overlapped and intersected even though the Seven leads never meet each other, giving hints about what will happen later in different series. Man, now I need to read the whole thing again. It was tainted a bit because the last issue came out MONTHS after all the minis ended, but in hindsight, so, so good.
1) Sketchbook confirms the presence of Shiloh Norman;
2) Libra disappeared into the fabric of the universe. I'd expect him to be unable to communicate in anything but metaphors about the movement of orbiting stars, not just keeping to a characterisation, Plus, Morrison wants us to keep guessing about the identity, event hough he's stated it's not Barry Allen.
3) Actually, Earth-51 was the battleground of "Monitors Versus Monarch". Nix actually might be getting banned because the Monitors were jealous of him before and are now in the "Shoe's on the other foot" mentality.
4) Therefore, kudos to Morrison for ignoring all the bits of Countdown except the good parts! I'm looking forward to NOT seeing Kyle, Donna, Whatsherfacebug or any of the other characters in FC.
5) No body on-panel = shady on whether MM is really dead. Who knows, he could turn into Fernus at the last minute.
I took the Dr. Light scene to mean either Viagra or some sort of size-changing drug - it is Giganta he has a date with after all!
The guy on the last page was Nix Uotan - the banished Monitor.
Seven Soldiers was excellent - except Mr. Miracle (which was also the least successful mini of the series sales-wise) and to base the entire premise of Final Crisis on teh new appraoch to the New Gods in a poorly selling and not massively well received mini seems a very flawed idea.
Put me down as someone who assumed Light wanted Viagra.
As for the inconsistencies I started to wonder if it was an alternate Earth. One where Orion didn't kill Darkseid. The Monitors spoke of a New Earth being the linchpin of their Orrery. Perhaps this Darkseid one his was on New Earth Prime and now he chose some alternate Earth to set up operations. I thought to look for the little Earth with a number to tell em where they were.
I never read Seven Soldiers but I'd heard of Darkseid being a club owner or something. Perhaps it's whatever Earth that series was on.
Sorry, I was getting New Genesis/Apokolips confused with New Earth, although maybe the two planets fused back together. Nah, not likely. I got nothign then.
I gave it another read and Light was saying he didn't want to dissapoint Giganta, so unless Giganta considered a good date being abused (and heck she was uplifted by Gorilla Grod as his slave or soemthing wasn't she) I'm pretty sure now he just wants Viagra. Perhaps MM can just get him some real good viagra, and not the cheap stuff they sell over the counter.
A few thoughts. First off, yeah, there were way too many inconsistencies that I found to be way too frustrating. You hit on a few of them dead on. Going from the beginning, like you said, Superman knew full well what happened to Orion, as well as the other New Gods. So a) Why is he talking to the JLA as if they barely know who the Ne Gods are. Some of them have even been on the JLA- and during Morrison's run to boot! b) Superman knows full well what happened to Orion as he was there. So what, he never bothered to look for him afterwards? And either way, he knows why it happened, it wasn't like it was an assassination. And like you said, other NG's were killed, yet all of a sudden, they make a huge deal about this case, as were the Guardians. c) Like you said, I didn't understand Superman's comments on there being increased NGs activity.
All this stuff was just so confusing. Now, let's say we're just supposed to completely ignore CD, then what about what happened to E51? That was in CD also, and was reflected in this issue. So it's like Morrison is only using what he wants, and contradicting the rest. Interestingly, I also thought we were on a parallel Earth a few times just because it was so darn weird how much was being contradicted, blatantly contradicted.
I also didn't like how the Martian Manhunter situation was handled, both before this issue and within it. I thought it was a poor move on Didio's part to let us know in interviews that were supposedly spoiler free that there was a major death in issue #1. I think Morrison also said this, but they shouldn't have. This should have been a major surprise instead. But since I knew there was a major death in FC#1, after finishing the JL issue, it was too obvious it would be J'onn. So, when he was killed, I felt absolutely nothing. And that's a shame. Plus, the way it was done was so anticlimactic. They just brought him in and staked him. It felt like Morrison was sort of letting part of this storyline be told in that JLA issue. Sort of like going with shorthand since we all read that issue. But if you are someone who reads this story in trade sometime in the future, you wouldn't necessarily have read that JLA issue, so therefore, the murder of MM would seem even more rushed and forced. I think Morrison should have gone for more drama there, more poignancy, just something more to give it more resonance. It felt really hollow, especially, and this is part of what I find really odd, Libra was using this sacrificial act as more proof of his ability to get these villains what their hearts desire. Now correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the other villains in Salvation Run kill him? Didn't many of them want to kill him there, but Luthor told them not to so they could use him for some other nefarious purpose down the road? What did Libra do for them that they couldn't have done on their own? This whole scene just felt wrong to me. And perhaps more than anything, this death, which should have been very emotional, hell, it was one of the Big 7 for crying out loud, was so anticlimactic and rushed, and thus, very disappointing, made only worse that we knew it was coming, even if you, like me, were avoiding specific spoilers. The death of an important DC character was talked about when Didio mention Reqiuem as a tie-in.
I also thought it was odd how hard the monitors were on Nix given that he tried to save his world, it was the other Monitor who got things rolling. Why was Nix punished, but not the evil Monitor (forget his name?). That just felt off to me as well.
Aside from all this, I still enjoyed it overall, and the art was wonderful. The backgrounds were amazing, especially the sky shots and the water shots and stuff like that. It was so beautiful and detailed. So that is a definite plus. I am interested in reading the commentary they have over on newsaram because I am quite sure many other people were just as confused by these issues. I am glad others felt the same way.
Just to point out a few issues, Kirk, I am pretty convinced Dr. Light was referring to some type of Viagara. Why Light went this way, instead of to a pharmacy? I don't know. But you could tell by how he said it, he said he didn't want to let her down. Also, I can see him raping a norm, but there's no way he tries that sort of thing on Giganta. No way. Maybe the drugs Mirror Master has does more than just what Viagra does- makes him bigger like someone else said, or more passionate, whatever.
Also, the Black Racer was not there for Turpin. I suspect Turpin will be around for a while. No, he was there for Orion. The Black Racer is meant more for the New Gods when they die, not someone like Turpin. Now, Turpin didn't seem to know who Orion was, but correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't he know who he is, and some of the other New Gods, you know, going back to Jack Kirby and all? And I thought it was weird that Turpin just left Orion there. I tried to assume that he saw John Stewart coming although you can't see that for sure as they weren't in the same panel together, or perhaps he called it in, did Turpin, but still, I can't imagine him just walking away like that. Weird.
Oh, and one other thing, regarding the Seven Soliders, yeah, they did put it in trade. I bought it a few weeks ago, along w/ the 4 Fourth World Omnibuses (if you choose to get those 4 omnibuses, they are much cheaper on Amazon- about $30 compared to $50 otherwise, it's a great deal!). I've gotten through two of the SS trades (there are 4 altogether), though I haven't gotten to the Mister Miracle section yet. I will try to read the rest of it this week. The books go in the order they came out, similar to the Fourth World Omnibuses, and therefore, go in the correct story order. They are typical Morrison confusion, but if you stick with it, it gets easier. When I am done, I will let you know if you want how helpful the SS story is, and MM's part specificially, to FC.
I have to say that I was impressed with the first issue. I was confused by the Countdown inconsistencies at first but after reading it again I like what Morrison is doing. You basically have to realize that he's not sticking 100% to continuity, which I appreciate because too much continuity fan-boy pleasing can take a story down.
I definitely like the way the Monitors are written here and it's a shame they couldn't have been this way in Countdown.
@heatvision - That's one monster of a comment. You make me look brief, ahaha.
About the inconsistencies, I'm disappointed that they let Morrison ignore just about everything he wante dto, but I also like the fact he's not being bogged down by the disaster that was Countdown. It came down to whether I judge the issue as it is or hold it to Countdown's terrible story and characterizations.
As you can probably tell, I make note of the problems but chose to judge it on Morrison's story and ignored the other ones. Doesn't make it right, but that's how I judged it.
About hte Monitors, it's not quite the same as in Countdown. It seems the entire Universe-51 was lost, not just his Earth that was destroyed. He may be punished for failing to Monitor and keep safe the universe, not just the destruction of the Earth. Also, it could be due to his regrowing the universe after Monarch destroyed it and then failing to save it again that's had him tossed out. You'd think he'd die if his universe died though...
I know the Black Racer is mostly there for New Gods, but he was in the sky when Turpin found Orion and Orion died shortly after. He later shows up again above Turpin, but Turpin is alone and shortly after he gets attacked by the Anti-Life kids when he meets Dark Side. I took it to mean he was dead and put two and two together with the second appearance of Black Racer.
It seems I'm in the minority about the Viagra / date rape point of view. It would be nice if one of the interviews had asked them to clarify, but I'm still holding that, in my eyes, it seemed more in line with him looking for something hard to come by as opposed to a Viagra-like substance, but it was a minor scene and I doubt it deserves as much attention as we are giving it.
About J'onn, while I've never been a fan of his, I didn't out right hate him. Just didn't like how he was monitor duty bitch for the Justice League and always conveniently taken out of big battles to stop him from being godmode with his Superman like abilities combined with telepathy, intangability, invisibility, shapeshifting, etc. Stuf flike random fire or other villain pyschic attack takes him otu, et al.
Howeve,r he didn't deserve to be killed in such a way. It felt like he was just picked out of a hat like a D-list character and killed off. Editors should have told him no way. At least it's left open for a resurrection of some kind.
Kirk, regarding inconsistencies with Final Crisis, I read someone's post on DC's message boards who did a really good job of explaining it all. I think he was able to put it together between everything he read and stuff that Morrison/Jones/Ian Sattler/Didio have said, and it makes much more sense than I thought in terms of how it still could fit with Countdown and DotNG. The key to keep in mind is that some time has passed since CD and DotNG, and Superman and the Guardians are aware that Orion had been reborn as a result of the Source, and other New Gods had been reborn as well, and thus, when Orion is found dead, this is not from Countdown, but a later time, as the Source gave him new life after Countdown and made him better than ever (remember, the Source is now whole, and is able to do so) and it's even more important because the New Gods that the Source had reincarnated, for lack of a better term, were even more deified, more powerful. So, Orion's death is now big news, even moreso than before. It also explains why Superman says that there is increased New God activity, and it explains why Superman is saying that the New Gods are celestials possessed of great power, even though the others should already know who the NG are. He's actually talking about this new version of the New Gods.
Of course this is not clear from just Final Crisis #1 alone, and the person who wrote this on the message board could be wrong, but when I read his theories, it made so much sense; it all fit. So, we'll see, but if this is the case, and Morrison goes to explain all this, then I think that's cool. Take it for what it's worth.
I think this blog is pretty cool,it has a lot of good and interesting content about Michael Jackson,good for you I hope you can add more useful information and upgrade your site,I really like it
Post a Comment
Thanks for checking out the Weekly Crisis - Comic Book Review Blog. Comments are always appreciated. You can sign in and comment with any Google, Wordpress, Live Journal, AIM, OpenID or TypePad account.
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.