From there on out, Morrison’s rapidly intensifying crunch of information and characters starts making the book exciting in its rush forward. Ex-Monitor Nix Uotan is tossed in a room for being immune to Anti-Life, but his drawings of superhero characters remind us that even the worst revisions can be undone, and hope is possible! Two pages later a man solves a puzzle cube and villains’ skin vaporizes!
Wait – now Libra is killing people and commenting on sexual violence toward superheroines. Lex Luthor is pissed! Ok, now we’re in an evil throne room and dudes are spoiling the next issue of Batman and keeling over stone dead! That’s what you get! Shit! Now Darkseid is God! Oh fuck! Frankenstein’s quoting Milton! Wait! Now time is falling apart! The President of the United States has a gun! A hole in the sky at the hanging! Eyes in the night! Everyone on Earth is pumping their fists! Comics are suddenly flying at us and it’s like an evil version of JLA: World War III transforming into Flex Mentallo and a man has a liquid television cloud for a helmet and LIGHTNING FASTENING HIS JACKET!!
Whew! That’s the stuff right there! I mean, I’m probably setting myself up for a fall here, but now I hope this series continues to spasm inward and issue #6 is like some berserk DCU version of Poison River with scene transitions every panel, like random background characters from Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #136 bursting in screaming “THE METABONDS HAVE UNTETHERED” followed by Guy Gardner in a time vortex going “hhn” then a close-up of Batman’s groin halfway across the globe followed by supervillain heads burning; it’ll be so compressed there won’t even be room for dialogue, just selected alphabetic characters, whisking us back to the primal force of phoneme like a word balloon Lettrism, at which point Kamandi initiates the chiselling phase of Darkseid’s face.
—Jog on Final Crisis #5. I lost it at “hhn.”
You really should read the whole review. It’s pretty much everything I’d say about the book and why it’s so good (even though that Green Lantern trial scene was bobbled pretty badly by Carlos Pacheco).
LOL. Awesome. Exactly why I don’t write comic reviews on my site – I just can’t state shit better than the best of you. The art goofs in the trail scene bugged me as well and the misdirected/misconnected word balloons later in the book were an annoyance, too but ce`st le vie.
I will say this about FC #5 though – it was last in my stack to read and as I opened it up, Judas Priest’s “Electric Eye” came on my MP3 player and by golly if that didn’t just sync up so damn well…followed by Sabbath’s “Neon Knights” right as I hit that spread of the Bludhaven onslaught. I wanted to bang my head and thrust up some devil horns like Beavis.
So, yeah, Final Crisis 5. Very Metal. That’s my review.