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Job McBadass
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Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:11 pm |
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In anticipation for FC 6, I'd like to initiate and christen this long overdue discussion thread with a concise enumeration of what happened in the last few FC issues. I've read in a lot of forums, that FC (and every other Crisis for that matter) is a tad hard to read because of the abundance of details and side-stories introduced in every meaty issue, so to get you up to speed, here's a short primer with a link to each issue included. Tie-ins not included.
| Anon wrote: | Issue 1
- Metron of the New Gods gives Anthro the first boy the power of knowledge, in this case: the knowledge to make fire. Anthro becomes the first super-hero by defeating the first super-villain, Vandal Savage.
- Dan Turpin, on the trail of six missing children, discovers the corpse of Orion. The skies turn red.
- The Green Lantern Corps begins an investigation, with the Guardians of the Universe quarantining Earth and sending the Alpha Lanterns to Investigate.
- Dr. Light and Mirror Master steal what appears to be Metron’s chair for Libra.
- Libra has a meeting with major super villains attempting to convince them to hand over the reins of the Secret Society to him. To prove he is serious he kills Martian Manhunter as a favor to Z-list villain, The Human Flame.
- Dan Turpin’s investigation leads him to the Dark Side club, where he meets Boss Dark Side and finds that the missing children have been corrupted by the anti-life equation
- Monitor Nix Utoan is banished to New Earth for the loss of the universe containing Earth 51. He is turned into a human and loses memory of who he is.
- Flashing back to pre-historic times, Anthro, wearing body paint similar to the markings on Metron’s body has a vision of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, who tells him that Metron had given him a weapon.
Issue 2
- After getting into a brief fight in a Tokyo Bar, Sunny Sumo is recruited by Mr. Miracle, Shilo Norman (with Motherboxxx in hand) to help fight the coming threat. The Super Young Team is introduced.
- We see Nix Utoan’s mundane life. He constantly sketches characters from parallel worlds, and is reading through a dictionary, convinced if he can discover his “Magic word” he will remember something he forgot.
- Dan Turpin is beating the your poetry out of the Mad Hatter, obviously suffering from memory loss, he is still looking for the missing children he found in the previous issue. Mad Hatter mentions Bludhaven, and Turpin sets out.
- The Justice League has a funeral on Mars for Martian Manhunter.
- Luthor tells Libra that if he hurts Superman, then he might be impressed.
- The Justice League determines Orion was shot, and sends John Stewart to find the bullet. The bullet is found in 50 year old concrete by John who is accosted by an unseen Green Lantern.
- Hal Jordan is arrested by Alpha Lantern Krakken for the attack, later at the Hall of Justice, Batman figures out that Krakken is possessed by Granny Goodness. Batman is captured.
- Dan Turpin finds Reverend Good in Bludhaven, he is taken to the Command D bunker where children are being experimented on, mutant bodies are being created, and Batman is being put into a torture device.
- Clayface, disguised as Jimmy Olsen, plants a bomb in the Daily Planet building, Lois Lane is injured.
- Wally West and Jay Garrick locate the meeting place of the Secret Society, now abandoned, and discuss the possibility of a bullet fired through time, explaining how Orion was killed. Barry Allen shows up, chasing said bullet, being chased by the Black Racer.
Issue 3
- Rene Montoya, the Question, checking up on Dan Turpin, is at the Dark Side Club. Frankenstien and a group of SHADE operatives burst in and try to arrest her. She escapes but is captured after Uberfraulein falls from the sky and she goes to investigate.
- Jay Garrick tells Iris Allen about how he, Barry and Wally tried but failed to stop the bullet fired through time from killing Orion. Jay had to stop running through time but Wally and Barry continued on.
- Libra drops a helmet on the Human Flame, which subjects him to the anti-life equation and turns him into a mindless justifier soldier. Luthor arrives and mentions that Superman has not answered an emergency call in the past 18 hours. Libra claims responsibility and tells Luthor he can serve by choice, or get a helmet on the noggin.
- We see how Superman has been detained; Clark is currently using his heat vision to keep Lois heart beating in the hospital. He can’t leave her side. A monitor arrives and tells Clark she can offer him a chance to save the world (this leads into Superman: Beyond).
- Hal Jordan is taken to Oa to be tried for the attempted murder of John Stewart.
- Noting that Batman is missing, Superman is unable to leave Lois’s side, Hal Jordan is being taken off-earth, and a dead New God was found, Alan Scott recruits every super-hero he can to prepare for the obviously coming storm.
- Sunny Sumo and Mr. Miracle are attacked by Justifiers at an airport in Japan; the Super Young Team arrives and helps them escape.
- Wonder Woman goes to investigate Bludhaven and is accompanied by some Atomic Knights. There she fights a corrupted Mary Marvel, and is infected with a viral form of the Anti-Life equation.
- An electronic form of the Anti-Life equation is sent out through the internet; Mr. Terrific and Oracle try to stop it.
- Wally West and Barry Allen stop running, a few weeks into the future from where they had started. The are discovered by Batwoman, Wonder Woman, Catwoman and Giganta, riding the dogs of the Atomic Knights and bearing the symbols of Darkseid. They are the new female furies.
Issue 4
-The world has been hit hard by the Anti-Life equation, justifiers are everywhere, data transmission of nearly any kind is impossible. Pocket resistance groups are formed. The Ray, with his ability to travel as a beam of light, spreads information as a Daily Planet paperboy, the newspaper currently being published out of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.
- In Command D, we see that a new body has been made for Kalibak, and that Dan Turpin’s body is being transformed into a host for Darkseid.
- The resistance establishes brief contact with each other using the Unternet, a secret information network used by the supervillain fraternity. They try to organize a last stand on Bludhaven.
- The Tatooed man delivers a message to the resitance group at the Hall of Justice from Black Lightning (which he received in FC: Submit), he has the pattern of Metron on his body.
- Barry and Wally fight the Furies
- The heroes at the Hall of Justice evacuate to the Watchtower. Green Arrow stays behind to prevent the Justifiers from following them. He has a justifier helmet put on him by a corrupted Black Lightning.
- Wally and Barry find Iris Allen, corrupted by the Anti-Life equation. Barry kisses her and she regains her mind. (The artwork implies the Speed Force might have been the cause of this)
- Mr. Miracle and the Super Young Team arrive at Checkmate HQ where Mr. Terrific is, Mr. Miracle is accidentally shot.
- Turpin is shown to have finally given in to the will of Darkseid that has been slowly taking over his body and mind, and damns humanity.
Issue 5
- Hal Jordan is put on Trial on Oa. Guy and Kyle show up and reveal that Kraken has been possessed by Granny Goodness. Kraken-Granny makes a play to steal the Central Power Battery, but the Guardians drop it into a pocket universe to keep it safe. One of the Guardians is injured. Hal is declared innocent and prepares to go to Earth.
- We reunite with Rene Montoya who is with Amanda Waller at a Checkmate base. Checkmate is building some very Jack Kirby looking Omac soldiers and Waller offers Rene a job with them.
- Reverend Good and Morakai are starting to die as Darkseid begins to assert his will, he sends out the Furies to “end it all.”
- Back at Checkmate HQ, Mr. Miracle is alive (master escape artist, after all) and explains that the war between the New Gods broke time and space. This is demonstrated as a Checkmate bridge bunny observes that the Swiss border has somehow “moved.” Defenses at the base are failing and Miracle instructs everyone to paint the Metron pattern over their face as he and the Super Young Team have done.
- The remaining heroes attack Bludhaven. Mary Marvel fights Captain Marvel and Black Adam, it’s revealed (implied) that Mary Marvel has been possessed by Dessad. Talky Tawny arrives and is attacked by Kalibak (in his new Tiger body).
- Nix Utoan has been captured and thrown into Command D. He is immune to the Anti-Life Equation. An unseen figure with monkey hands goes through some of Nix’s sketches and helps him discover his “magic word,” the name of his lost love: Weeja Dell. A silent man in a wheelchair (assumed to be Metron due to his depiction in the Mister Miracle mini-series) solves a Ruibik’s cube in 17 moves (believed to be mathematically impossible) and it pings like a Motherbox.
- Darkseid stands up from the chair he’s been in since issue 3. Mary Marvel and Supergirl begin to fight. The Green Lanterns arrive at earth and are pulled into the singularity caused by Darkseid’s presence.
- Darkseid takes command of everyone on earth infected with the Anti-life equation, and declares himself the new god.
- Back in Command D, Nix Utoan has become a New God (his speech bubbles are the same as the ones Metron had in issue one). He declares the Fifth World is dawning (Jack Kirby’s New Gods were “The Fourth World” if you recall) and he, the “judge of all evil, is here.” |
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MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW THIS OBNOXIOUSLY HUGE LINE OF TEXT.
I MEAN MAJOR SINCE IT CONCERNS THE YET UNRELEASED SIXTH FINAL CRISIS ISSUE. THIS ISN'T A JOKE.
Someone got ahold of an early edition and reviewed it. If you simply can't wait for two (?) days, click the link. It contains pictures and detailed summaries on the death of Batman. That's right. The death of Batman. Let me repeat that--
THE. DEATH. OF. BATMAN.
I couldn't resist. I feel so dirty.
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Job McBadass
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:12 pm |
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Sir Pepoy Josepito
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:31 pm |
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whoa
BATMAN LIVES!
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:19 pm |
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Grant Morrison Final Crisis Exit Interview, Part 1
My favorite part!
NRAMA: Speaking of Batman - along the lines of the more...controversial aspects of the larger Final Crisis storyline was how Batman RIP was included in it. Obviously, you had a place where Batman needed to be in Final Crisis, and he did meet his “end” in #6, but was that always the way things were supposed to go? Are you aware that there is a large amount of reader discontent that they essentially had to follow into another book to get the resolution of that story?
GM: Batman R.I.P. was planned from the start of my Batman run as the culmination of the ‘Batman vs. the Ultimate Diabolical Mastermind’ story I had in mind and it was always intended to wrap up just as you read it, before leading into the next chapter of my Batman run and the final twists and turns of this attempt to tell a ‘definitive’ long-form Batman adventure.
When Dan heard the R.I.P. title he asked me if it could lead us into the ‘death of Batman’ which he’d planned to occur in Final Crisis, so I made sure the Batman title and Final Crisis reached this particular endpoint at the same time and created a bridge between the two books. It’s possible to read Batman through 2009/10 without having read Final Crisis at all, however, so I’m trying to please everyone.
Of course I’m aware of a perpetual and chronic discontent from a particular jaded minority on the internet but I try to overlook their constant expressions of dissatisfaction on the grounds that it’s depressing and often personally abusive.
Surely part of the fun of comics includes following stories across titles? If you like comics, what’s so awful about buying another one to see what happens next? And if you don’t want to buy it, don’t bother. Do something else. Buy cigarettes or booze or bananas. I don’t know!
Every time I read about the agonizing pains of ‘event fatigue’ or how ‘3-D hurts my head...’ or how something’s ‘incomprehensible’ when most people are ‘comprehending’ it just fine, it’s like visiting a nursing home. ‘Events’ in superhero comic books FATIGUE you? I’m speechless. Admittedly they do tend to be a little more exciting than the instruction leaflets that come with angina pills but... ‘fatigue’?
Superhero comics should have an ‘event’ in every panel! We all know this instinctively. Who cares ‘how?’ as long as it feels right and looks brilliant?
And that's just part 1!
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:03 pm |
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Here is "Gran Morrison"'s FC reading order, apart from the tie-ins. Maybe we won't be so fatigued if we follow it like this!
FINAL CRISIS # 1- 3
SUPERMAN BEYOND # 1- 2
SUBMIT
FINAL CRISIS # 4 – 5
BATMAN #682 – 683
FINAL CRISIS # 6 – 7
Final Crisis 7. My god. What was that.
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:07 pm |
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| Am I the only one who feels let down by FC #7? |
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Fri Jan 30, 2009 5:01 pm |
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Morrison was right. These bananas are deeelicious.
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Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:07 pm |
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I still don't like how Final Crisis wrapped up. And no, it's not because "Spider-Man isn't in it HAW HAW HAW."
I feel the ending was rushed (hahaha I'm so funny, Flash Fact) and hardly satisfying. I always knew Funky-Hair Dude was going to be a really important character near the end but...I dunno. I have a hard time accepting that this was labeled a "Crisis" because it didn't feel like one. It felt like a steaming cauldron of sixteen hundred Morrison stories all told at the same time.
Also, why does Batman have pants and boots and a belt? Did he make it in that cave, with scraps? |
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