And to think I almost thought about about reading that. Crisis averted.

I can't tell you how many times during that series I thought I'd flipped two pages at once, or had just flat out missed an issue, despite knowing what I held in my hand was the next issue in sequence. I think the whole thing started out well for the first half or so, but just devolved into crap by the end. I mean, Mandrakk? Seriously? WTF?

I wouldn't even have minded if it turned out Mandrakk was the main baddie if only we got some hint that it was coming sooner than Superman Beyond, which is thankfully being included in the hardcover to Final Crisis, otherwise people who casually pick it up won't know what the flippin' hell is going on.

I seriously thought you said Mandark and laughed.

"Ha, I have manipulated Darksied! Excellet! Hahaha Excellent. hahaha-hahaha-hahaha-hahaha-hahaha-hahaha!"

Ah, Dexter's LAb was great.

That was probably the best Ci5P yet! I loved how dramatic the monologues were--especially Darkseid's; what's that from?--and then you just ripped it to shreds with one-sentence summaries of the characters' roles. Also nice to see you just show up at the end to comment on it. That "fifth panel" really brought the whole thing together.

Darkseid's was a combination of several quotes from the series, including "Anti-Life justifies my hate" and two from Darkseid himself: "All is one in Darkseid" and "There is a black hole where my heart should be."

Essentially, the comic was full of boisterous, fantastic, dramatic, and really incredible ideas and concepts, but in the end it all comes off as rather pointless.

So...we will be seeing a full review of this someday?? please?

According to his review of Cable #1 (or was it Superman vs. Terminator?), in about 30 years.

Batman's.....in a cave somewhere. I suppose that's suppose to come off as ironic, but really its just stupid.

Can you hear it? The noise... The constant beating... The sound of drums...

Is that a really random Doctor Who reference, SpAM_Can?

Seriously, though, this comic looks strange..
Nice 5 Panel video. I love how it's all dramatic and then.. Well, not. xD

That last "panel" is almost zen-like

The only tie-ins I had read to this story was Rage of the Red Lanterns, Batman #682-683, and Rogues Revenge. As great as those stories were, they didn't help me piece together what was going on in the main story.

what is that catchy tune?

I already commented on your blog but I have to say Grant Morrison really needs someone to talk him down from time to time (and possibly an intervention). He's written some good stuff, but damn do you have to wrack your brain at times to figure out what the missing pieces are.

-have a good day Linkara,
bojak90

"The Master Vainglorious" from Doctor Who. ^_^

You have a thing for using Murry Gold music in your reviews, and it works realy quite well. Personally I prefer to us Star Trek TNG's Best of Both worlds for a cliff hanger.
I digress, a great CI5P. You preach what we must not read!

Yeahhhh... I read that twice and still wasn't really sure wtf. I mean, I understood everything that happened, but I really don't have a clue as to WHY.

WHY DC, WHY?

I keep thinking, after reading about it and now watching this 5-panel that all of Final Crisis would make sense in context. But you know... I'm sure it doesn't.

The problem is that you don't have to just read it in context, you have to REALLY read it in context. Grant Morrison has themes in it that are incredibly subtle and every piece of dialogue is significant in some fashion, but in the end there's that kind of subtlety we see in, say, Watchmen that can be read into while still enjoying the story, whereas with Final Crisis you need to be analyze everything far too much in order to actually get what he's trying to say with it, and the story suffers for it.

You know, till today I don`t know what to say about it.
I mean, Darkseid was on his best and a lot of villains I thought were good. Heck, I thought Libra was a good villain and if they had him brought up a few times before, he could have been a hell of a villain there. But ion the end, he just became another henchmen and I thought this was shit.
The first four issues were good in my opinion, but... after them you knew that you have to read more then seven different tie ins and series to understand everything, especially the Batman part.
Grant Morrison is in my opinion one of the "greatest" storywriters for Superhero comics, even when he did screw up once Magneto. I mean alone his ideas for JLA during the nineties were incredible. Heck, I still have the volumes of this time and honestly, I did throw away/sold most of my comics from this time two years ago.
But the second half of Final crisis is jst... you don`t understand it, if you don`t know some of the weirdest DC things of the seventies, as well as what was going on in the different tie ins.

Also I have to say, there were three main things I really couldn`t stand, just because they were to much:

1. the title: Final crisis
honestly, why calling a event Final Crisis, if it turns out to be just another invasion by Darkseid. I`m sorry to say it like this, but after Infinity Crisis and all the things that came up during Countdown etc. I was just so sarcastic that I said "Yeah final crisis. Wht comes next xear, version 2.0? Because let us all be honest, there will never be a FINAL crisis. I mean yeah, this event ended with Darkseids death and so on, but really, does anybody believe he will stay death? we all thought, we would never again read something about Antimonitor and he came back. To be dead in DC means nothing, we all know this for a matter of facts. And just because of that, just because I know someday someone will be stupid enough to activate the miracle machine and bring him back, I can`t see that this event comic did anything! Which is considering the title just sad. I like the DC cosmos, even if I make jokes about it, but if I would say Final crisis, I would at last really destroy the multiverse so that it can be final.

Barry Allen coming back from the death.
... really? I mean, he did a good job in this event, but... why? I mean, he is the incernation of heroic sacrifice, even before Superman. why making his death worthless by this? And heck, how does he even come back? Did he just run through a plothole?

Batman killed by Darkseid.
Batmna killed/thrown into another dimension/whatever. I mean, there are no words for that. And Batman shooting Darkseid? I know that Batman is a BATass (sorry for that pun)and he did in another story threaten Darkseid. But this? I am sorry, I can`t imagine that Batman even in his final moment would shoot someone. I mean killing Darkseid, okay. But killing him by shooting?
The other thing, let us be honest, they will bring him back. Who wants a new Batman? No one. Even if Tim Drake/Dick Grayson/whoever takes the cape, we all associate Bruce Wayne with Batman, not this guys. and hey, this idea isn`t even originl. The same thing happened with Superman years ago and we all know how that ended.

Well, what to say about Final crisis:
I think, there were some really great ideas, the plot was in the beginning dark and thrilling. But in the end, you just ask yourself really "did I miss some pages" as well as "Oh come on, that shall be a Final Crisis?". so, the result?
In my opinion Grant Morrison did better with other works from him than with Finl crisis.

Good review Linkara and nice to hear the master`s theme during this thing.
It`s always nice to see, that there are other Doctor Who fans on this side.

Ha! Good stuff.

Seriously they wanna complain that THEY'RE inconsequential they should try being in Naruto Shippuden

They'll be lucky if they get a page and a line of dialogue ...ha ha

Machine: 1,966,782,021,456th joke that Naruto sucks now*

*Punches the machine into orbit*

Agreed. Final Crisis was just.... weird. It's wasn't necessarily bad.... okay, maybe a little, but not so much as just plain confusing.

Have yet to read Final Crisis. Identity Crisis, I did read. It was pretty weird, too. That'd be an awesome 5 Panels. Great story, great concept, but that ending was a definite WTF-slap in the face. It's like DC handed various people completely separate projects and said "just make up anything, we'll put it all together somehow." The Atom's exwife... "Tiny Woman. My God"

We have various ideas and will put them somehow together... somehow I think that DC really does work like this for a longer time. I mean, Infinite crisis was in fact a good build up. I read the diffferent tie ins to it and the main story and that wasn`t bad.
But other stuff....

Amazon Attack, Countdown, World war III, Final Crisis, Identity Crisis... many ideas, but how they made them was just stupid.

Oh man...Final Crisis. Its like that girl you meet that looks nice until you hear her laugh. At first its cool but then.......you want to run away.

review that comic please

I looked up Final Crisis on wikipedia, and I couldn't even follow the article. Then I made the insane choice of clicking on the DC Multiverse article. Holy shit! No wonder I never got into comics. That's just too damn much to remember.

Well, the Multiverse WAS gone after Crisis on Infinite Earths. And you don't actually need to follow every dimension to know how it all works.

Yeah but still the multiverse is back now.
And even if Superboy Prime destroyed at last two earths and a third is now contaminated with some sort of Virus not even the Umbrella Corporation could come up, there are stil enough things about it no one will ever understand. Or the timeline.
Sorry, but i whcih timezones did Wally West already live?

His name is pronounced darkside? I always thought it was darkseed

Original he was called Darkseid, but after getting the anti life equatation (by the way I am developing something called Anti comic equatation if someone would be interested in elping me with the last parameters I would be glad)

he called himself Darkside, god of all evil and so on. Seriously, Darkseid has some issues.

This why I not a big comic book fan.

I walk into a comic book store once a month flip throw them and grab to ones with artwork that I like.

Well done.

Oh, Barry. Why did you have to come back?

Final Crisis gave me a fucking headache, I don't know how many times I thought I'd not only skipped pages, but whole issues, only to realize I hadn't.

Morrison kind of lost his mind while writing this, I think.

A creative blend of dramatic music and a terrible comic. Another solid addition to the 5 second panel series.
Seriously.

Personally I just pretended that everything involving the Fourth World not done by Kirby is fanfiction. (Hugs Fourth World Omnibus.)

Final Crisis makes perfect sense if you read the tie-ins

For some reason when I play this I only get a advertisement and when it's finished the video ends. Why?

Oh it's fixed. COol vide Linkara. And I agree this story is confusing. But the music in this video is awesome.

Always wondered, throwing someones ashes into a rocket and shooting it at a primordial planet, and then ressurected as a half naked guy living in a cave.. didn't they do that in Star Trek 3

Linkara you are simply awesome!