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What happens when evil wins? That's the question Superman, Batman and The Justice League of America must face when Darkseid and his legion of narcissistic followers actually win the war between light and dark. Featuring the deaths and resurrections of major DC characters, "Final Crisis" is a challenging, thought-provoking take on our modern four-colour icons.
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Grant Morrison's credits include Arkham Asylum, JLA, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles and The Filth. J. G. Jones is one of the comics industry's most sought-after cover and interior artists, with work including Marvel Boy.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
One of the most divisive books in recent history published by Dc Comics makes this a really tough book to review. Just by looking at the other reviews, both good and bad, you can see that opinion is really divided on this series. There is very little middle ground in the great debate about Final Crisis. Most people absolutely love it or absolutely detest it!
If you are going to love this book then firstly, you need to be a fan of Grant Morrison and like the fact that he is prepared to challenge the status quo of comics in terms of characters, storylines and settings. If you have read some of his other works(and liked them!) such as: Batman RIP, Batman:Black Glove, All Star Superman 1 and 2, Earth 2 and DC One Million and got on with them, then Final Crisis is going to be for you, because it leaves a lot of the work up to you. You have to be able to fill in the gaps and come up with conclusions yourself. Grant Morrison is a master at letting the reader get out of a book, what they are capable of getting out of it. This book is no exception.
Secondly, you are really going to have to be up to speed with some of the storylines that have gone before - the series 52 and Countdown to Crisis would definitely help, and it is probably worth a look at some of the older Crisis on Infinite Earths books two.
The plot is an awe-inspiring, sprawling saga that involves the multiverses, alternative heroes from these other universes and all of your favourite characters in the toughest of situations. You will find Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Lex Luthor, Darkseid and the Black Racer within these pages.Throughout, all the heroes are put through the wringer and brought up against events much bigger than themselves; it is a graphic novel that asks, 'What makes a hero, a hero?' and then lets you come up with the answer yourself.
This book may not appeal to you if you are used to a rigid storyline or characters that you know and love stretched beyond their normal, well-known boundaries. You may also not like this book if you like the main story and all its threads laid out in front of you so you can get the full picture of what is going on. There is nothing wrong with this at all - not everyone has the same tastes, and i like to have a good idea of what has been leading up to the main plot, and sometimes i like something that will test me and get more out of me as a reader. It depends how i feel! Horses for courses is what i say! At the end of the day, we all love comics, so let's all agree that we need to support our publishers, writers and artists!
But this book is one that will mean you need to concentrate on, and be prepared to give some time to.
So, that covers who will like this and who will dislike it, but what do i think?
Well, i think it is a good series and well thought out and drawn. But for a huge event series, it feels a little short to me. Or maybe, it was so good, that i was left wanting more. The artwork is solid enough - though not up there with the standards of what Alex Ross can do, and i think a series of this magnitude deserved the best artist on board. Had this been an Alex Ross illustrated book, i would have given this five stars.
To sum up - a challenging read for even the most dedicated fan, but a rewarding one, nontheless!
If you are going to love this book then firstly, you need to be a fan of Grant Morrison and like the fact that he is prepared to challenge the status quo of comics in terms of characters, storylines and settings. If you have read some of his other works(and liked them!) such as: Batman RIP, Batman:Black Glove, All Star Superman 1 and 2, Earth 2 and DC One Million and got on with them, then Final Crisis is going to be for you, because it leaves a lot of the work up to you. You have to be able to fill in the gaps and come up with conclusions yourself. Grant Morrison is a master at letting the reader get out of a book, what they are capable of getting out of it. This book is no exception.
Secondly, you are really going to have to be up to speed with some of the storylines that have gone before - the series 52 and Countdown to Crisis would definitely help, and it is probably worth a look at some of the older Crisis on Infinite Earths books two.
The plot is an awe-inspiring, sprawling saga that involves the multiverses, alternative heroes from these other universes and all of your favourite characters in the toughest of situations. You will find Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Lex Luthor, Darkseid and the Black Racer within these pages.Throughout, all the heroes are put through the wringer and brought up against events much bigger than themselves; it is a graphic novel that asks, 'What makes a hero, a hero?' and then lets you come up with the answer yourself.
This book may not appeal to you if you are used to a rigid storyline or characters that you know and love stretched beyond their normal, well-known boundaries. You may also not like this book if you like the main story and all its threads laid out in front of you so you can get the full picture of what is going on. There is nothing wrong with this at all - not everyone has the same tastes, and i like to have a good idea of what has been leading up to the main plot, and sometimes i like something that will test me and get more out of me as a reader. It depends how i feel! Horses for courses is what i say! At the end of the day, we all love comics, so let's all agree that we need to support our publishers, writers and artists!
But this book is one that will mean you need to concentrate on, and be prepared to give some time to.
So, that covers who will like this and who will dislike it, but what do i think?
Well, i think it is a good series and well thought out and drawn. But for a huge event series, it feels a little short to me. Or maybe, it was so good, that i was left wanting more. The artwork is solid enough - though not up there with the standards of what Alex Ross can do, and i think a series of this magnitude deserved the best artist on board. Had this been an Alex Ross illustrated book, i would have given this five stars.
To sum up - a challenging read for even the most dedicated fan, but a rewarding one, nontheless!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Right, well, before buying this book I spent a good while reading all of the other reviews on here and on other websites, simply because views on it are so massively opposed. Final Crisis really is the 'Marmite' of the DCU.
I will say this to anyone tempted to buy this book: read Crisis On Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis and 52 first, they will help (or you could just Wiki them) and they're all amazing anyway. Of the three Crisis stories, this one is certainly the most complex and interesting.
The reason why I have not given Final Crisis five stars is because the writing often comes across as needlessly convoluted and, thus, a little arrogant, as if Morrison wanted to confuse the reader for the fun of it. This is especially true in the Superman Beyond issues half way through. Despite this confusion, the story is not all that complicated, but it does jump from one time and one location to another fairly frequently with little explanation and the major 'shock factor' turning points and revelations, the moments which are plot-changing and world-changing are incredibly dampened and downplayed; if this was a film, these moments would have no slow motion, no classical music and no gasps or loud and agonising screams. This is a very interesting approach to storytelling, making the entire book seem like one huge crisis, rather than several small ones, which is exactly what it is.
On the art side, J.G. Jones certainly delivers. The man behind the beautiful artwork of Mark Millar's Wanted has shown, once again, how to create a dark and gritty world that's also full of hope. Simply beautiful.
Final Crisis certainly has its good points and bad points but, overall, it's an exciting and excellent read and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read an ambitious story and experience an interesting (understatement) period in the DC Universe
I will say this to anyone tempted to buy this book: read Crisis On Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis and 52 first, they will help (or you could just Wiki them) and they're all amazing anyway. Of the three Crisis stories, this one is certainly the most complex and interesting.
The reason why I have not given Final Crisis five stars is because the writing often comes across as needlessly convoluted and, thus, a little arrogant, as if Morrison wanted to confuse the reader for the fun of it. This is especially true in the Superman Beyond issues half way through. Despite this confusion, the story is not all that complicated, but it does jump from one time and one location to another fairly frequently with little explanation and the major 'shock factor' turning points and revelations, the moments which are plot-changing and world-changing are incredibly dampened and downplayed; if this was a film, these moments would have no slow motion, no classical music and no gasps or loud and agonising screams. This is a very interesting approach to storytelling, making the entire book seem like one huge crisis, rather than several small ones, which is exactly what it is.
On the art side, J.G. Jones certainly delivers. The man behind the beautiful artwork of Mark Millar's Wanted has shown, once again, how to create a dark and gritty world that's also full of hope. Simply beautiful.
Final Crisis certainly has its good points and bad points but, overall, it's an exciting and excellent read and I recommend it to anyone who wants to read an ambitious story and experience an interesting (understatement) period in the DC Universe
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I looked forward to this, having not read any of the earlier Crisis stories, and having followed the Batman and Superman stories up to this point. Sadly, what followed was a bit of a mess, to my mind. I had to visit Wiki to make sense of the story! There are some positives here and generally I'd cut Grant Morrison a lot of slack out of respect for his earlier work, but this, at times, is very hard to follow. I'd like to see DC writers just join the dots a little more. I persist with DC, but find Marvel's ability to tell a story far greater. FC strikes me as just being a little too clever for it's own good. It doesn't matter how majestic a story arc or how intricate the details, if the reader can't make any sense of what's happening, what's the point? Not as awful as The Lightning Saga - which made absolutely no sense whatsoever - but still a disappointment for me. Definately the Marmite of graphic novels.
At risk of giving things away - although you will have heard about this by now, surely? - if this is the end for Bruce Wayne, or even an extended absence from the comic, he deserved a far better ending. This character has been in comics since the 1940s and is the most recognisable of superheros. This does not feel like a worthy enough ending for such an iconic character.
At risk of giving things away - although you will have heard about this by now, surely? - if this is the end for Bruce Wayne, or even an extended absence from the comic, he deserved a far better ending. This character has been in comics since the 1940s and is the most recognisable of superheros. This does not feel like a worthy enough ending for such an iconic character.
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A little dissappointing.
I have been a big fan of DC. Leading up to the Final crisis went back through my collection and read as much as i could to remind myself of what had happened so far. Read more
Published 18 days ago by Mr. J. Lynch
Jack Kirby's Fourth World becomes Grant Morrison's Fifth World
This volume reprints Final Crisis #1-7; Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #1-2; Final Crisis: Submit #1; Final Crisis: Sketchbook #1. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Gareth Simon
Could have been amazing, but...
OK, there are two major problems with this story for me. Firstly, while it starts brilliantly and has several interesting subplots going, and it's OK for heroes to be mauled, for... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Miss L. Bruce-Kerr
Atrocious, incomprehensible, greed-driven
Final Crisis starts off well, and the first couple of issues were a joy to read. A god is murdered, Green Lantern framed, Batman kidnapped. Read more
Published 8 months ago by M. Duncan
Kids' stuff
DC have their decent Vertigo label for "mature" content. This ain't Vertigo. This is regular DC which means the lamer end of capedom. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. I. C. G. Bell
eh, what now?
I've been reading the build up to Final Crisis, all the way back to Crisis on Infinite Earths.... and have loved everything to date. Read more
Published 12 months ago by S Jones
It's Just Too Big!!!
I thought I was a literate, educated person with a fairly sound grasp of the DC Universe...
Final Crisis proved me utterly wrong! Read more
Final Crisis proved me utterly wrong! Read more
Published 20 months ago by D. Laurikietis
Seriously Disappointing
*** SPOILERS! ****
Final Crisis - or 'When Grant Morrison jumoed the Shark and landed up his own backside - is everything that is wrong with comics at the moment. Read more
Final Crisis - or 'When Grant Morrison jumoed the Shark and landed up his own backside - is everything that is wrong with comics at the moment. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Grr
Convoluted mess
This book is one big mess from start to finish. It's very slow moving and the plot is all over the place. At no time was I sure what was going on. Read more
Published on 6 April 2010 by Derrick O'Rourke
An epic story for those who can read betwen the lines
I could ho into a lot of detail about the awesomeness of this epic story, but for your benefit I'll keep it short... Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2009 by Fin_Fan
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