Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

The penultimate issue and things ain’t looking good. We start with Brainiac Five showing Superman (who is apparently lazing around in the future, while everybody else is doing hard yards in the present) the ‘Ultimate Weapon’ (some kind of kickass digital nunchuuk, presumably). Supes isn’t really paying attention, so B5 slaps some sense into him [...]

Onto the fifth issue (or ‘issue five’ as the traditionalists will insist upon calling it). We open with Hal Jordan on trial for killing a god. His accuser, an Alpha Lantern possessed by the evil Granny Goodness, puts forth her evidence: “You have a scar on your head and you can’t remember whether or not [...]

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
#5 – Into Oblivion
#6 – How To Murder The Earth
#7 – New Heaven, New Earth

Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis. Love it or loathe it, you’ve certainly got to choose one of those options, if the comics blogosphere is [...]

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 [...]