Take, for instance, The Mindless Ones. It’s a thoughtful bunch of folks over at that blog, and they often have interesting things to say… but in this case, when a poster like “Amy” can write of FC #7 (emph. mine),

Grant Morrison’s comic, whilst being a big ol’ mess, blah, blah, is just about the most insanely superheroic thing I’ve ever read. Ridiculous, history-defining events occur pretty much every other panel, and that’s what I want to see. Superheroes as metaphor for the impossible…

And as is befitting a comic that aims to capture the throbbing core of superheoism, there’s lots of talk about ‘mythic time’, Argos and heroes cluttering up this two page spread. Here the superpeople aren’t even attempting to sound like *people* per-se…

[The wonderhorn] transcends partisanship and division, nodding to some kind of fundamental ur-religion and source of holiness from which all of our different belief systems, perhaps, sprang…

…and this is part and parcel of explicating why she likes the book so much, well… obviously we’re just operating on totally different wavelengths, with totally different concepts of what’s “cool” or “entertaining.”

Then, and only then, could I re-read Final Crisis and understand what the hell was going on. Turns out it’s actually quite good, it’s a great story, and a fantastic way to tie together everything in the DC Universe in one neat little package.

So I think the real question isn’t really “Was Final Crisis any good?” but “Was Final Crisis told in a way that will just confuse people and keep everyone but the most dedicated nerds from understanding or enjoying it?”

As a story, I think it was a success, but as a method of telling that story, I think it was an abject failure.

Final Crisis, while containing some fun moments, sucked as a whole. Thank you, Mr. Miller, for not feeling you have to praise poorly written drivel just to join the Geek Elite in “getting it”.

For that matter, having given us a link to the post in question, anyone reading this can see for themselves whether or not the characterization was accurate and doesn’t have to take the word of Chris or anyone else.

No, that’s what passes for all the qualifiers that surrounded my praise. What passes for praise are things like :

What makes it work is that the scope is absolutely massive, characters everywhere get to have their triumphant moments (in the “punch the air” stakes, it comes close to matching Captain Britain and MI:13), and it has all the satisfying epic resonance that the likes of Infinite Crisis lacked. The gathering of an entire multiverse’s army of Supermen is exactly the sort of huge ending that this type of story should be doing.

There are ideas and moments that I want to sit here and list, but to say too much would give away things that are a joy to discover as they happen.

Lois Lane’s [narration] drives the story in a truly elegant way

this issue thrilled, entertained and gripped me more than almost any other in-universe superhero title I’ve read in quite some time.

But, y’know, you can say anything by chopping and splicing together someone’s words in an out-of-context way!

(but hey, thanks for reading!)