Isaac’s Book
Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds #3
Written by Geoff Johns
Art by George Perez
DC Comics, 2009
Have you bought this book yet? No? Listen, if you’re at all a fan of DC comics, don’t even read the rest of this. Just go buy it.
Are they gone? Okay, now that it’s just me and you Marvel zombies (I guess there are non-comic fans that are reading this too), let me be honest with you. You guys shouldn’t buy it. You wouldn’t understand it at all; half the book is a gigantic fight scene which, although extremely cool-looking, even has me scratching my head at times about who’s who and which side has the good guys on it. Some kind of roll call would certainly help us out here, but I don’t expect miracles. If we had a roll call on all the characters from three different universes of Legions of Superheroes, it would probably waste five pages — at least.
Brainiac 5 (there are three Brainiac 5s in this book, but you don’t care which one I’m talking about, do you?) even relates to us an adventure where the three legions teamed up on a previous occasion, which everyone forgot about due to time-space anomalies, but I’m pretty sure that was an adventure that never really happened.
I know these are some pretty confusing paragraphs I’m throwing your way, but that’s just how it goes.
Ah, the DC gang has returned from the comic store with copies of their very own. Yes, George Perez’s art is amazing; it really isn’t a Crisis if he isn’t doing the art (a fact the Final Crisis main book will be acknowledging soon, no doubt). Yes, having Brainiac 5 talk about an adventure that hadn’t really happened is an excellent wink to how continuities change after these big Crisis events — and now that you mention it, the two other Brainiac 5’s bickering dialogue IS a clever pantomime of the different reactions the comics community will have over this issue. “Completely illogical.” That’s pretty funny, but maybe you had to be there.
It’s that kind of subtle commentary on the relationship between readers and story characters that have always been a staple of these Crisis events. Morrison was doing okay with that concept over in Final Crisis until he went overboard and crammed that relationship down our throats. Subtle is the operative word here.
I can’t even imagine how amazing this story is going to be when they have finished all five issues. There are so many reasons why this is the true successor to Crisis on Infinite Earths, and I’m confident that this will be even more true when the next issues come out.
You guys totally owe me for not spoiling the HUGE thing that happens at the end of this issue. I know, I know; I’m a real hero.
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