After a two-month gap (partially planned, but also including an extra three-week delay), DC released issue #4 of Final Crisis this week.
And… I can’t really say that it was worth the wait.
Here’s what happens in this issue: with Earth infected by the Anti-Life Equation, the heroes try to rally their forces against those who have been possessed. Meanwhile, Darkseid finishes reincarnating in the body of Dan Turpin.
And, umm… that’s it, really.
We get nothing new about the errant Monitor (the only plot thread that even remotely ties this in to previous Crises). We get nothing about Libra and his army of villains. Nothing about goings-on on Oa. We do get more non sequitur dialogue (the sequence between Green Arrow and the Ray, for example). We’re given the puzzling factoid that about a billion people planetwide were taken over by the ALE… which sounds large but is actually only about 15% of Earth’s population, making it odd that they seem to have a zombie-movie-like numerical advantage in all the crowd scenes. And through it all, every page practically screams at me, “none of this is going to matter to the DCU at large. There is no possible way this story can end except by pressing a giant reset button.”
(Except for the return of Barry Allen, of course. Which is itself a terrible idea: Barry had one of the best deaths in comics history, by far the most memorable moment of his heroic career, and anything flowing from his return can only undermine that moment and seem anticlimactic by comparison.)
Tags: Darkseid, DC Comics, Final Crisis, Grant Morrison, Green Arrow, super-heroes
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