Final Crisis

DC




Writer/Scripts    Grant Morrison
Artist    J. G. Jones , Marco Rudy
Penciller    Carlos Pacheco, Doug Mahnke
Inker    Jesus Merino , Christian Alamy ,Tom Nguyen ,Drew Gerasi ,Norm Rapmund ,Rodney Ramos
Walden Wong , Doug Mahnke
Letterer    Rob Leigh , Travis Lanham , Rob Clark
Colorist    Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis , Tony Aviña



I started this book 3 times before finally using a bookmark and tracking where I was. We start the book with Metron giving Cro-Mangon man fire before vaulting forwards to today. In the present a hero collapses in a smoking pile. Orion has been murdered and Green Lantern has to find out who the killer is.

After this start I was expecting a detailed murder investigation type book but I should have probably read Crisis on Infinite Earths story first to get an idea of what to expect in one of these multi-verse type stories. Basically as each sub-plot unfolds we are led into a series of realities, time-lines, Universes and alternate takes on the DC characters. 

Lots of plots and lots of focus points made this a hard story to follow for me. Plus I always had the sense that the multi-verse story line meant that who ever was killed would simply be resurrected at the end of the story.

There are some high points and the art is always beautiful but overall I never really connected with this story.