The solicits for Final Crisis in October really sound promising. We’ve got a whole bunch of one-shots that month, as well as issue 5 out of the 7 issue miniseries. For anyone worrying about the pace of the story, there can’t be much doubt now that its building up to something huge. With the Earth still basically screwed with only 2 issues to go, it really is sounding like an epic storyline.

I’m unsure about most of the one-shots though. The fact that its only a one-off probably raises the chances I’ll buy Submit and Resist. Revelations I’ll probably try and see what I think. I loved Gotham Central, so the Question and Spectre storylines intrigue me, but Batwoman is a character that I just can’t bring myself to care about. She does provide a good cover for issue 3 though.

It’ll be interesting to see how much these tie-ins actually play into the main narrative. Submit and Resist certainly sound like they’ll fill in some details, but a lot of the others sound like they’re more out on the periphery. Of course, the danger of integrating them closely to the main series means you could end up with another Infinite Crisis. I re-read that series again recently, and without reading the tie-ins along side it, a lot of it really doesn’t hang together. Stuff just seems to happen in panels with no real explanation, and that’s the balancing act with these events. I think its partly why Sinestro Corps worked so well. By not crossing over with everything going, this wasn’t really an issue and kept the story tighter.

Still, meandering thoughts about tie ins aside it really does sound like its all hit the fan in issue 5, and I can’t wait.   Granted we’re only two issues in (currently), but I’m already loving this storyline.

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