That cover really doesn’t work as a thumbnail, does it?

Well, this week heralds the release of the second part of DC’s big summer event.  Of course, the way things are going, the main DC summer event is all the controversy surrounding this book and specifically the mis-handling of its build up.   However its well established now that Countdown sucked, so there’s little point going over it again.

Instead, to Final Crisis #2.  Final Crisis has been taking a bit of a kicking, due to its “slow burn” approach, versus Secret Invasion’s all-out summer grandslam spectacular with helicarriers falling from the sky.  However, when all’s said and done, based on the issues so far, and with no disrespect to the great job Bendis is doing on SI, I do think Final Crisis is going to be the better read.

Both first issues just ooze mystery and foreboding.  With this issue picking up Dan Turpin’s investigation into the missing children, which leads him to some horrific discoveries, and also the JLA and Green Lanterns’ investigation into Orion’s murder, which leads to pretty much the same horrific discovery, but also features Hal being framed for the murder, and some great craziness as to the nature of the murder weapon (which is honestly something that you’d only find in a Morrison book).

Its a real shame that this book is being overshadowed by the controversy surrounding it.  It promises to be something much deeper in scope than the big, Hollywood blockbuster style approaches of recent summer events, and the writing and art are both outstanding.   Sadly, at least when it comes to online forums, it seems that readers would rather go straight for the falling helicarriers, which is a great pity as I wasn’t even a fan of the fourth world stuff, and I can tell Grant Morrison’s doing something pretty special here.

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