Final Cri­sis #6 (of 7)

For­get the naysay­ers, Final Cris #6 is great.

No, I’m not going to write para­graph after para­graph defend­ing the book. It’s awe­some, even with one minor problem.*

I didn’t read Bat­man RIP, or it’s fol­lowups, so I can’t com­ment about how it fits in with Final Cri­sis. But I did read Count­down so I can help out if you’re strug­gling with the cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance needed to get through it.

Speak­ing of Bat­man, hav­ing him his one rule to put a god-killing bul­let in Dark­seid, then pay­ing with his life, was one of the best things I’ve read in a long time. Oh, and he’s not really dead, you guys. Read the story again. Hell, just read the Sonny Sumo pages. Not. Dead.

More good things: a Tiger-man on Tiger-man bat­tle, where the Tiger in a tweed jacket and bow tie comes out on top; and a sub­plot about shift­ing the planet’s pop­u­la­tion to a par­al­lel uni­verse to save them; end­ing with a vari­ant of the now clas­sic CoIE Super­man pose. They’ve got me hooked.

*The art. They’re up to around 4 or 5 artists now, so there’s lit­tle con­sis­tency from page to page. I can see why JG Jones was ink­ing his own pen­cil­ings too. Who­ever they’ve got to replace him is just awful.

Green Lantern Corps #32

I don’t under­stand these Faces of Evil tie-ins. Is it sup­posed to be a  show­case of the bad­dest char­ac­ter fea­tured in a book? If it is, then Kryb isn’t it. Sure she’s creepy as hell, but not what I’d call evil. Espe­cially with the rev­e­la­tion that she con­sid­ers the Green Lantern Corps to be a malev­o­lent dan­ger to the well being of the chil­dren she col­lects, and isn’t search­ing for  food.Though I don’t know how that trans­lates into the “abil­ity to instill great fear”.

But that doesn’t really mat­ter as the rest of the issue is pretty damn cool.

There’s Kyle’s clever way of remov­ing Kryb’s mind-control; the grisly death of a red shirt Green Lantern; a new law enacted in the Book of Oa; the res­ig­na­tion of a large con­tin­gent of the Corps, who I’m sure will no doubt pop up as vio­let, blue or some other colour of lantern down the track; and an inter­est­ing, but not unex­pected fate for Kryb.

I really enjoyed the Vio­let Lantern’s ring class­ing Kryb as a ‘heart­breaker’. I liked the way the Vio­let ring com­mu­ni­cated in gen­eral. I’m glad they’re not just a straight up female ver­sion of the Green Lantern Corps, but have their own rules and meth­ods for deal­ing with their ene­mies. Though their recruit­ing process is a lit­tle extreme, espe­cially com­pared to the Blue Lantern’s “extended inter­view” way of recruit­ing to their par­tic­u­lar corps.

Com­plete List:

Booster Gold #16
Final Cri­sis #6 (of 7)
Green Lantern Corps #32
Trin­ity #33

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