Maybe I'm being to harsh, but after how great Indentity Crisis was, and how decent Infinite Crisis was, I expected better from Final Crisis.  The slow lack luster story added to the unimpressive art (at least when compared to Identity/Infinite Crisis) has me seriously considering dropping the story.  Heck the only real reason to read the first issue occurrs on the very last page, which for now I'll not mention, but even the way that was handled seemed poor.  What should have been the major point of the first issue was instead given 2-3 panels and rushed over on the last page. 

Sorry DC, but you just keep pushing me farther and farther back into my Marvel territory.  A few years ago I was buying almost as many DC books as Marvels... now I'm down to the Quaterly at best, All Star Batman, and the Amazing Green Lantern book which seems to get better with each arc.

So am I alone in my thoughts, or were others as unimpressed as I was?  All I have to say is that if Barry Allens return in issue #2 is the big moment of this story... I'm dropping the book now.

This is Final Crisis. AS DC says, "DECADES IN THE MAKING". Countdown had a YEAR to set this story up...and what happens.

NOTHING. BORING. COMPLETELY DULL.

Astonishing.

I am a huge DC fan as you all know. But the flaws in this book are massive.

First, Morrison was not the writer for this book. Morrison's style is to jump around and eventually pull everything back together. Sometimes it works. Other times, a linear storytelling approach is preferred. For me, I would have liked more of that linear progression here.

The art is gorgeous except when I saw superman I was wondering how the art could be so off there.  The death here is gratuitous and does nothing for the story. It did not even create suspense that this character was going to die and then allow the reader shock at the death. It was just there. IMO, handled poorly.

Yes, I recognize it is part one of perhaps 7 and the story needs to build slowly...except it doesn't. It had countdown for 52 issues and a spinoff. It had DC Universe 0. This book with all of its hype and legacy should have been a slam bang kick in the face of looming gloom and doom leaving the reader screaming on how they were going to wait for the next 30 days. It didn't.

I will of course stay with this book and hope for the best. I also know that DC will shake up the Universe as a result of what happens here. But candidly, this was dull and boring. The only earht shattering thing here is that this was Universal in scope all right-as a universal dissapointment.

Final Crisis. Big event of the summer?

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This one right?....

I Actually picked up this book.

J'onn J'onnz die, and when, how, who killed Orion.

This was just to much in one issue.  Can someone explain the Boy with the fire part?  Please.  All this is comming from someone who, I thought, was pretty much on top of the DC Universe. 



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