Final Crisis

[pigeonmilk]

Yeah Yeah Yeah I know, I'm late to the game with this one, but what can I say.. I almost NEVER read DC, but the last 10 times I've been to BAM I have carried around a DC title until the guilt of paying for it sets in and I put it back on the rack.

But for fathers day I got a gift card there so I HAD to use it there and decided to throw caution to the wind and buy a DC graphic.

So I grabbed Final Crisis, it had great art and was thick as shite for 19 bucks, couldnt beat it..

Ok.. no I started to read it and "WTF is all I can say..... I was so damn lost reading this thing that I had to google cliff notes on the freakin book just to get a grasp of the story line.

So now I'm going to grab the orginial 2 ( i didnt even know there were 2 preceding books in the series ) and read those with the hopes that I actually might be able to understand and enjoy this run even more.

[Popninja]

Why don't you tell us about the story and what not; a cliff-notes-like quick synopsis if you please. I'm only saying that because that's the whole point of Comic Book Club and Comic Analysis.

I never read the series myself, but loved the Jim Lee variant covers.

[pigeonmilk]

Well, here is a very good basic version of the book, and when I mean basic, I mean long as hell cause there isnt a basic version of the story,lol but its a good read still. There was so much going on in this last book, this covers it all.



Metron of the New Gods is shown at the dawn of human civilization giving Anthro the gift of fire, proclaiming, "Here is knowledge." In the present day, detective Dan Turpin discovers a dying Orion. The Guardians of the Universe inform the Green Lantern Corps that a god has been murdered. The superhuman community becomes involved. Libra recruits a supervillain army, killing the Martian Manhunter in a display of power. While investigating the area where Orion's death occurred, Green Lantern John Stewart is nearly killed by an unknown assailant using a Green Lantern power ring. Hal Jordan is framed for the attack.
The superhuman community becomes aware of a plot by the New Gods of Apokolips to enslave humanity. After discovering that John Stewart's attacker was an Alpha Lantern named Kraken, Batman is abducted. Superman leaves Earth in order to save the life of Lois Lane. Mary Marvel, whose body is possessed by Desaad, infects Wonder Woman with morticoccus, the "god bacterium" designed to strip Earth's heroes of their powers. Barry Allen, the second Flash, returns from the dead and attempts to prevent Orion's murder. The Evil Gods' forces release the Anti-Life Equation on modern means of communication, turning half of humanity into mindless slaves of Darkseid.

Barry Allen reunites with his wife, Iris West, and frees her from the Anti-Life Equation. Various superheroes resist the Anti-Life Equation, which culminates in an attack on Darkseid's forces in Blüdhaven. Nix Uotan - a Monitor who was sentenced to live on Earth as a human - with the help of what looks like Sam Simeon or possibly the Detective Chimp, as well as Metron (still in the crippled body he had during Seven Soldiers), remembers his past and awakens as a powerful new being. With the help of other evil New Gods hiding in human bodies, Turpin's body was altered to serve as a new vessel for Darkseid's consciousness and powers, and Turpin struggles with Darkseid for control. Losing hope, Turpin surrenders his body and Darkseid becomes fully alive.


The Flashes attempt to stop Darkseid before his presence on Earth destroys reality. Within Darkseid's bunker, Batman escapes and confronts Darkseid. He states he will "make a once in a lifetime exception" to his "no firearms" rule and shoots Darkseid using the bullet that killed Orion. As Darkseid is shot he fires the Omega Sanction from his eyes and apparently kills Batman.Doctor Sivana helps disable the Justifiers so that Lex Luthor can kill Libra. Superman returns to Earth from the 31st century, where he was given access to the reality-altering Miracle Machine by Brainiac 5. Superman attacks Darkseid's bunker, finding Batman's corpse.
Barry Allen and Wally West, pursued by the Black Racer, witness Superman's clash with Darkseid. Darkseid's followers unleash Omega Beams on the two Flashes, who outrace the beams and cause them to hit Darkseid. The Black Racer reaches Darkseid as he lays dying from Radion poisoning and removes his essence from Dan Turpin's body. The Female Furies clash with Libra's army of mind-controlled superhumans, now under Luthor's control. Wonder Woman is freed and binds Darkseid's body with her lasso, freeing the rest of humanity from Darkseid's control. Darkseid's essence continues dragging the multiverse into him, with only a few buildings of Earth-0/New Earth not being drawn into Darkseid. Time and space unwind as Darkseid's essence dies.
Freddy Freeman, Supergirl, the new Aquaman, Green Arrow, Black Canary and many other heroes get invites for Article X by Alan Scott which is actually a Superhero Draft. He joins most of Earth's heroes in the JLA's Hall of Justice.
After the activation of the Anti-Life Equation, Freddy fights his way to Khandaq to reach Black Adam to have him rejoin The Marvel Family, only for Black Adam to tell him he was unsure as the New Gods have overthrown the Lords of Magic and that as their champions they are at their weakest. Ultimately, Black Adam agreed to help, and joined the heroes during the assault on Bludhaven. Almost immediately, Adam begins trying to kill Mary, who was part of Darkseid's forces. Adam said he looked into her eyes and didn't see Mary, but a leering old man. Throwing Adam aside, Mary attacked Freddy, saying that she had a new magic word. As the battle continued, Mary focused her attentions on Supergirl, but Freddy was able to grab Mary and shout "Shazam", changing them both and supressing Desaad. Now in control again, Mary was horrified at her actions, saying she could never change back again, as Freddy told her it wasn't her fault.

As reality breaks down, Superman, with the help of the remaining superheroes and humans, constructs a copy of the Miracle Machine. Darkseid's essence attempts to claim the Miracle Machine. However, Superman sings a note at a frequency that counters Darkseid's vibrational frequency, shattering his essence. Mandrakk the Dark Monitor arrives to consume Superman. He taunts Superman, saying he has nothing to start the Miracle Machine with, so Superman should come to Mandrakk and embrace the death of everything. Superman counters this, and uses the solar energy in his body to power the Miracle Machine, in order to restore the Multiverse to its proper form. Led by the Captain Marvel of Earth-5 and gathered by the Question, an army of alternate Supermen from across the Multiverse appears, including a Man of Steel who is actually U.S. President Barack Obama in his secret identity.Nix Uotan arrives and summons the Zoo Crew (restoring their original forms and powers in the process), as well as the Army of Heaven, the Green Lantern Corps, and the Super Young Team, (who are referred to as the Forever People of the 5th World), who had been on Earth-51. The heroes confront Mandrakk and the Green Lantern Corps stake Mandrakk with a spear created by their rings' energy. The Supermen and the Green Lanterns drag Earth from the black hole that is Darkseid back to its original position. Nix Uotan restores Earth-51 with bits and pieces from other versions of Earth and places the reborn New Gods there. Nix Uotan forces the other Monitors to stop interfering with the Multiverse, leading to their nonexistence, due to Superman's wish with the Miracle Machine for a "happy ending". Nix is reborn on the restored New Earth/Earth-0.
In the distant past, Anthro dies of old age years after bringing fire to the people of earth. Bruce Wayne, in his Batman garb, lays his utility belt upon Anthro's body, and begins drawing a bat symbol on the cave wall.

[Popninja]

Crap. Final Crisis. I thought you were talking about Infinite Crisis. As I'm reading your post, I'm thinking, "Gee, this sounds familiar..."

I'm a dork.

[NickRocks]

lolwut.

i could understand it now that you did the cliff notes version, but reading the actual comic i was lost

[cbikle]

So now I'm going to grab the orginial 2 ( i didnt even know there were 2 preceding books in the series ) and read those with the hopes that I actually might be able to understand and enjoy this run even more.

Don't buy Countdown To Final Crisis or Death Of The New Gods; they're both very bad and will only confuse you more as they don't tie into FC at all and , in fact, actually contradict a lot of what happens in it.

Check out Seven Soldiers though by Morrisson.

[pigeonmilk]

hahah, same for me, I read the book the other ngiht and was "whhuuuuuttt..then I looked it up and was like "aahhhhhh"

[spidey976]

Final Crisis: Legion of Three worlds ROCKS ... great work from Perez ... I have to pick up the Final Crisis trade.

Infinite Crisis was one of those ones where you kind of needed at least a few of the tie in issues to make a whole lot of sense as to where people were coming and going. Johns did a nice job brining both into the Flash mythos with Flash Rebirth

[pigeonmilk]

You aint kidding, I will for sure get the preceding 2 books, it seems like a pretty interesting set.

[Shanas]

its interesting information ..
I got an nice idea