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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Final Crisis</title>
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		<title>Blackest Night #1: sometimes hype is merited</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/blackest-night-1-sometimes-hype-is-merited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday saw the release of the first issue of this summer&#8217;s big &#8220;event&#8221; from DC Comics, Blackest Night, after approximately 93 years of heavy advance promotion. For ages now writer Geoff Johns has carefully dropped clues and bits of foreshadowing in his other titles, most prominently Green Lantern, while DC grand poobah Dan Didio dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash: Rebirth—nothing to run around over</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/flash-rebirth%e2%80%94nothing-to-run-around-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1186</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Barry Allen, the original Silver Age Flash, returned from the dead in the pages of Final Crisis. The &#8220;how&#8221; and &#8220;why&#8221; of it weren&#8217;t really explained. But DC Comics&#8217; editorial poobah Dan DiDio has written that it was his plan since he came to the company to bring Barry back, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bits &#8216;n&#8217; pieces!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/bits-n-pieces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been far longer than I intended since my last post. Sometimes time just runs away from you. So let me just toss off a few ideas that have crossed my mind in recent days, and get caught up&#8230;
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First off:  the wrangling in Washington over the new &#8220;economic stimulus package&#8221; has been interesting to watch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The final issue of Final Crisis, finally</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/the-final-issue-of-final-crisis-finally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What.
The fuck.
Was that?
Seriously. Final Crisis #7 was every bit as crashingly disappointing as I feared it would be, and more so. Grant Morrison&#8217;s reach clearly far, far exceeded his grasp.
It certainly did exemplify a writing style he earlier described (warned? threatened?) as &#8220;channel-zapping,&#8221; though, and gods willing no one will ever be tempted to try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Crisis #6: more of the same</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/final-crisis-6-more-of-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=911</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My single overwhelming impression of this issue:
Wow, that was crap.
Again.
I kind of enjoyed issue #5, enough to be hoping for an upward trend as this story neared the home stretch. Apparently that was too much to hope for, though. (Which perhaps shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise, given the book&#8217;s multifarious agenda to be simultaneously a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman #683: More on Morrison</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/01/batman-683-more-on-morrison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, it came out over the holidays, but I&#8217;m just getting to writing about it now.
This issue and the previous one have to fill a number of slots:  they make up &#8220;What The Butler Saw,&#8221; Grant Morrison&#8217;s installment of the &#8220;Last Rites&#8221; short tales closing out the current era of the Bat-titles; they&#8217;re Morrison&#8217;s coda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Crisis #5:  picking up the pace</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/final-crisis-5-picking-up-the-pace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=743</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The first six pages of Final Crisis #5 were the highlight of the series so far for me. They take us to Oa, following up on the status of Green Lantern Hal Jordan (not seen since issue #3 back in August). Unlike the brief, hit-and-run scenes that have characterized so much of this series to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman #682: Morrison’s Last Writes?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/batman-682-morrison%e2%80%99s-last-writes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of Grant Morrison&#8217;s dramatically anticlimactic ending of &#8220;Batman R.I.P.&#8221; comes Batman #682, the first of two parts of &#8220;Last Rites,&#8221; Grant&#8217;s coda to his current run on the title.
In a drastic change of pace from what has come before, this issue basically offers a retrospective, a recap of (the first half [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, what exactly is going on with the DC Universe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/so-what-exactly-is-going-on-with-the-dc-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=631</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Looking in from the outside, it seems like there&#8217;s lots of second-guessing and retrenching going on at the number two comics company. With Final Crisis in its home stretch and major goings-on in the Superman and Batman titles, several long-term storylines are up in the air right now, and readers are left wondering whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legion of Three Worlds #2</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/legion-of-three-worlds-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is what a really epic-scale super-hero comic book looks like.   
(Yeah, I know it came out two weeks ago, but I&#8217;m running a little behind. There&#8217;s been a lot of politics happening lately. So sue me.)
Notwithstanding the official title and cover dress, this story really bears no meaningful connection to Final [...]]]></description>
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