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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Yes, that is my daughter with Michael Turner.  He was the greatest.

Hey there! Is that you, Bill with a slightly modified but similar name?

Some times you just gotta love Wikipedia. I looked up Kamandi. Check this out: I am not sure it will answer all your questions or even any of them but hey, I think you will find it interesting. Also, note that I bolded Morrison's quote. Doesn't bode well for the DC Universe, does it?

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When the 12-issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths unified all of the future timelines in the DC multiverse, Kamandi's timeline was rewritten. In the revised timeline, the boy who would have become Kamandi is the grandson of Buddy Blank, and is left in a shelter until he is rescued and renamed Tommy Tomorrow - the name of a character that predates Kamandi by twenty-five years. As a tribute to Kamandi the boy is found in "Command D", which is the name of the bunker that gave Kamandi his name in issue #1.

 Other versions

The miniseries, Kamandi: At Earth's End was issued in 1993, but had little relation to the Kirby comic except by name. This series was followed up by Superman: At Earth's End.

A tribute was paid to Kamandi in the 1998 Superboy series when Superboy appeared in a Kamandi-like world.

In the third story arc of the Superman/Batman series, which showed the heroes travelling through time, they met or fought with, variously, Sgt. Rock, Jonah Hex, Darkseid, and Kamandi.

The Savage Dragon story arc "This Savage World" (from #76-81) was directly inspired by, and a tribute to, Kamandi.

Kamandi appears in Justice League Adventures #30 aided by the Flash.

Revival

In the aftermath of the Infinite Crisis, a bunker named Command D has been built under the ruins of the city of Blüdhaven. ^[5]

In early 2007, DC Nation house ads showed a partial picture of Darkseid and mention a "Great Disaster". Additional DC promotional art for the series Countdown show the Statue of Liberty in ruins, similar to Kamandi #1. (Although later, Dan DiDio revealed that the Statue's appearance in that teaser ad was a reference to the Sinestro Corps War.) Throughout 2007, DC Comics contained continual references to a coming Great Disaster. In Countdown #31, Buddy Blank and his unnamed blonde grandson are introduced into the storyline. As of Countdown #6, The Great Disaster is in its early stages on Earth-51 due to the outbreak of a virus, which is causing humans to develop animal like features, and animals to develop humanoid features. In Countdown #5, the virus claims Buddy Blank's daughter, but his grandson is safe. Una, an alternate Earth's version of the Legion of Super Heroes Triplicate Girl, gives him her Legion flight ring, which he uses to safely get him to Cadmus's "Command D" facility, which was used to control Brother Eye, and has the defenses necessary to protect them from the virus's victims. As he settles in, he hopes that his grandson can forgive him for making him "The last boy on Earth."

Comments from Grant Morrison at 2007's San Diego Comic Con indicate that Kamandi The Last Boy will appear on the last issue's last page of DC's upcoming event Final Crisis, mirroring the appearance of Anthro The First Boy on the first page of the first issue.

In Countdown: Arena #2, an ape Starman from Earth-17 mentions he is attempting to form a truce between the forces of Kamandi and Ben Boxer, indicating a second variant Kamandi Earth, unalike Earth-51.

 Final Crisis

As of issue one of Final Crisis, Kamandi has appeared once, near the end of the issue, in what seems to be a vision or time distortion, where he briefly meets Anthro. He is seen standing in front of the ruined Statue of Liberty, and is asking Anthro for some weapon that he believes Metron gave the cave boy.

So, Darkseid is now some big black guy, who is like some mafia lord, named Dark Side!?! And Granny Goodness is now dressed in a hoodie and wearing a backwards ballcap (Teen Titans #59)!?! OK..... where did this start? Now DC's got some Final Crisis tie in in other titles called the Dark Side Club, where they're kidnapping Wally's kids, some of the younger crew from the Doom Patrol, and the Teen Titans, and brain-washing them!?!....

...my head hurts...

I hope this picks up, soon. I get the fact that they keep calling the universe our heroes are in "New Earth" (hence New Genesis.) So, what will be Apokolips?

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  Yes it me. New name.  Hope is all well.  Thank you very much for that explanation.  Didn't even think of Wiki.  However,even after reading that (and I do thank you) I am still confused.  I also had to get a laugh out of the name "DARK SIDE".  Lord I thought Darth Vader was in the house.

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USCG - Must always go out, but doesn't have to return.

Yes, that is my daughter with Michael Turner.  He was the greatest.