Dan Liebke’s Astonishing Tales

Okay. When last we left the DC Universe, Darkseid had unleashed the Anti-Life Equation, which, like most mathematics, is able to destroy the minds and will of all those who oppose it. Fortunately, there are some superheroes left, fighting the forces of evil with their own combined brand of stoutheartedness and innumeracy. One of them, [...]

This issue opens with the team-up for which everybody has been waiting! Namely, The All-New Question and The All-Original Frankenstein’s Monster. They’ve invaded the Dark Side club and found some kind of dying superheroine. Yawn! Dying superheroines are a dime a dozen - even in these troubled economic times, so instead we cut to Jay [...]

Onto the second issue of Final Crisis, which begins, without a lick of explanation, in Japan. Japan’s greatest superhero (Rising Sun) is laying down all kinds of verbal smack on the young Japanese superheroes who are bringing such shame to their ancestors. He calls them ‘posers’, ‘feckless’ and ‘needlessly obsessed with nightclubs and dance music’. [...]

Table of Contents

#1 - DOA The God Of War
#2 - Ticket To Bludhaven
#3 - Know Evil
#4 - Darkseid Says

Allrightey then. This is Final Crisis, which, according to DC’s lies will be the last Crisis-related crossover up with which we shall ever have to put. Well, let’s just see about that, shall we? (Note: This is a Morrison-penned comic so you know what you’re in for going in, people - lots of cool, crazy [...]

Table of Contents

Issues One To Four
Issues Five To Eight
#9 - War Zone
#10 - Death At The Dawn Of Time
#11 - Aftershock
#12 - Final Crisis

Issue Nine - War Zone
Okey-dokey. Time to crank it up a notch. Luthor and Brainiac have joined forces and summoned all the supervillains from the five remaining Earths to Brainiac’s kickass tentacled [...]

Table of Contents

Issues One To Four
#5 - Worlds In Limbo
#6 - Three Earths, Three Deaths
#7 - Beyond The Silent Night
#8 - A Flash Of The Lightning
Issues Nine To Twelve

Issue Five - Worlds In Limbo
Okay. Who wants to guess how we open issue five? If you guessed we open it with Pariah crying, then you may [...]

Table of Contents

#1 - The Summoning
#2 - Time And Time Again
#3 - Oblivion Upon Us
#4 - And Thus Shall The World Die
Issues Five To Eight
Issues Nine To Twelve

Issue One - The Summoning
Okay, people. Let’s crisis it up! Allow me to set the scene: In 1985, DC Comics looked at the list of titles they were [...]