It all starts with Anthro (the first hero of the history of the DC Universe) which is facing Metron of the New Gods. This introductory scene is a tribute which is not free at the beginning of the film "2001, A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick. Then Dan Turpin (another creation of Jack Kirby Orion is dying in a garbage pile made of plastic pistols. Then the green land lanterns receive alert code 1011 (= deicide.) Then Doctor Light and Mirror Master recover the chair Mobius Metron. Then Martian Mahunter suavagement is executed by Libra before an assembly of supercriminels which Lex Luthor in green and purple armor. Then Monitors banish Nix for his mistake Uotan land management of which had been entrusted to him. From there The reader discovers that the fourth age of the New Gods are gone, the universe witnessed the reincarnation of the New Gods in the fifth age, and that the balance between New Genesis and Apokolips is broken. Darkseid won, he is left just reincarnate completely. At the same time, the universe themselves are losing their consistency for an unknown reason.
When Grant Morrison proposed in Dan Didio (chief editor of DC Comics), it sets many goals. First objective: this crossover should be even more impressive than the previous. And indeed this story evokes Crisis on Infinite Earths with parallel land and Monitors, and Infinite Crisis. There is even more of DC characters in previous crossover, until Captain Carrot and his Zoo team. The threat is as comprehensive as before, it is even more absolute double. Second objective: the reader must find events that change the DC Universe (2 hero death, changing the status quo of the New Gods, the introduction of new characters ...). Third objective: the crossover has to vibrate the heartstrings of diehard fans. This is achieved beyond the wildest expectations: all fans have complained that the characters and the situations referenced are too difficult to find.
But Grant Morrison did not stop there. He also hoped that this story is a summary of all past and current comics, and it serves as testimony to the importance of this medium, and more specifically still testimony to the importance of superhero comics. And it also achieved this brilliantly and spectacularly with episodes of Superman Beyond. I remain overwhelmed and confused by this admiration sincere and honest declaration of love in the form of comics with superheroes, and that mastery of the medium that is the cartoon with a masterful use of its visual part.
The 2 main illustrators (JG Jones and Doug Mahnke) manage to be imaged all the innumerable elements of Grant Morrison script with designs that characters remain readable despite the density and visual information to cram.
Final Crisis is not a deconstruction of the superhero, but a true story of superheroes who meet all codes, while including a poignant comment on their nature. Morrison pays tribute to Superman (the first Super Hero) by giving it the mission of saving the reality (with its versions of other land). It puts the creative power of Jack Kirby in prmeier à © Plan (New Gods, Dan Turpin, Sonny Sumon, Kamandi ...). And he tells a gripping story in which evil triumphed (Darkseid is putting in place his reign), a crime was committed (and the survey is difficult) and unbridled imagination is in power (the book which contains all the books, a crime committed through time, internet as a way of disseminating anti-life equation, Clark Kent that helps the heart to beat ... Lois).
To better understand this complex story, the following readings may help: Seven Soldiers of Victory vol.3 and Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus 1.
