Final Crisis...Big Headache...
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Honestly, I don't think you can rate any comic book--or movie or novel or play--just by reading a synopsis on-line. A story is more than just a plot. It's all about the execution: the dialogue, the staging, the art, the prose, the characterization, the acting, the mood and atmosphere, etc.
Evaluating FINAL CRISIS (or any comic) on the basis of its wikipedia entry is like saying you've seen LAWRENCE OF ARABIA just because you've read its imdb listing.
("He dies in a motorcycle crash? Lame!")
Evaluating FINAL CRISIS (or any comic) on the basis of its wikipedia entry is like saying you've seen LAWRENCE OF ARABIA just because you've read its imdb listing.
("He dies in a motorcycle crash? Lame!")
Exactly. It isn't a deus ex machina if the story was moving towards that resolution the whole time. A deus ex machina is a device which gets the story out of an unresolvable narrative corner.
That's why you need to read Final Crisis: Superman Beyond. It's two essential chapters of the story. DC didn't quite promote it that way, however.
I still haven't read Final Crisis. It's been on my "To Read" list for what seems like ages now.
None. The only essential part of the story that is not "Final Crisis" proper is "Superman Beyond", and it is included in the trade.
There's also a couple of tie-in issues of BATMAN that fill in a gap in the story.
Are you talking about the additional issues in the Batman RIP trade which cover Batman being mentally taken over by The Lump (or something similar).
Btw, I was completely mystified when reading it (it's supposed to happen in the middle of FC while Batman is on Apokolips and there's nothing in the trade to "bridge" why Batman has been captured etc.) but then Batman RIP kinda mystified me if I try to approach it with any level of detail.
I haven't looked at the RIP trade yet, but, yeah, those issues with with the Lump take place in the middle of FINAL CRISIS and explain how Batman escaped from that futuristic iron maiden thingie.
Very minor spoilers . . . .
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He's not actually on Apokolips, by the way. He's being held captive by Darkseid's minions in an underground bunker in Bludhaven, after being captured earlier in FINAL CRISIS.
The timeline between "R.I.P." and Final Crisis isn't necessarily stated, but it goes like this: Batman presumably crawls from the water and returns to the Batcave, missing his Cowl (which Dr. Hurt has cursed and told Bruce that he will die when he wears it again). While there he gets an emergency call from the League (as seen in Batman #683.
Then he's seen in Final Crisis #1 wearing the Cowl and again, still in the Cowl in Final Crisis #2 where he's captured by Darkseid's forces (who exactly is a spoiler for the book). We see bits of his past after he's captured and attached to the Lump in Batman #682 and 683.
Then he's seen in Final Crisis #1 wearing the Cowl and again, still in the Cowl in Final Crisis #2 where he's captured by Darkseid's forces (who exactly is a spoiler for the book). We see bits of his past after he's captured and attached to the Lump in Batman #682 and 683.
After he poisons the Lump with his memories and then things go to Hell, Mokkari and Simyan flee, as they commit Cardinal Sin #1 of Batman villains, leaving him with his utility belt ("Leave his belt! Leave everything").
In the belt, of course, is the bullet that killed Orion, which he placed there earlier in Final Crisis. He finds a gun and emerges in Final Crisis #6. The rest, as they say, is history.
In the belt, of course, is the bullet that killed Orion, which he placed there earlier in Final Crisis. He finds a gun and emerges in Final Crisis #6. The rest, as they say, is history.
All this is why I don't read the big TWO anymore.
So is this REALLY gonna be the absolute final crisis? Or is this another example of DC trotting out another crisis year after year? Seems that whenever they do this, it never works. Crisis on Infinite Earths was supposed to wrap everything up, yet it obviously didn't, so we got Zero Hour. That didn't work, so then came Infinite Crisis. And lo and behold, that didn't do anything either, so now there's FINAL Crisis. What's next? Absolutely The Finalest Crisis Ever, We Really Mean It This Time? 
Batman #681--Dr. Hurt: "Then I curse the cape and cowl. As you will soon! The next time you wear it will be the last!"
Of course, it helps if you take the leap of logic that Morrison seems to hope we will and assume that Dr. Hurt is really the Devil.
There never is a real FINAL crisis! next decade it will be the ''HONEST TO GAWD GUYS, THIS IS THE FINAL CRISIS crisis!So is this REALLY gonna be the absolute final crisis? Or is this another example of DC trotting out another crisis year after year? Seems that whenever they do this, it never works. Crisis on Infinite Earths was supposed to wrap everything up, yet it obviously didn't, so we got Zero Hour. That didn't work, so then came Infinite Crisis. And lo and behold, that didn't do anything either, so now there's FINAL Crisis. What's next? Absolutely The Finalest Crisis Ever, We Really Mean It This Time?
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