Final Crisis: A Second Look
Jun. 2nd, 2008 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bewareofgeekI need to apologize to Grant Morrison & JG Jones. Thanks to a poster on Barbelith, I've worked out why Final Crisis appears to be such a mess, and it quite simply isn't Grant (or JG)'s fault.
Sorry, guys.
Two months ago, Grant gave an interview to Comic Foundry magazine, wherein he stated the following:
You’ve done several big event books for DC. What’s the hardest part about writing them?
Trying not to disturb continuity too much, particularly in cases where said continuity is best described as a car wreck. Back in 2006, I requested a moratorium on the New Gods so that I could build up some foreboding and create anticipation for their return in a new form … instead, the characters were passed around like hepatitis B to practically every writer at DC to toy with as they pleased, which, to be honest, makes it very difficult for me to reintroduce them with any sense of novelty, mystery or grandeur. So in cases like this, where fellow creators have overlooked my carefully established additions to DC continuity or ignored my pleas to hold certain characters in reserve, my intention is to follow the through-line I’ve established in my own work so that there’s at least some long-term consistency.
And that says it all, really. The script for this issue (parts of which have shown up online) was written two years ago. DC had plenty of time to make things work, and they simply dropped the ball.
You’ve done several big event books for DC. What’s the hardest part about writing them?
Trying not to disturb continuity too much, particularly in cases where said continuity is best described as a car wreck. Back in 2006, I requested a moratorium on the New Gods so that I could build up some foreboding and create anticipation for their return in a new form … instead, the characters were passed around like hepatitis B to practically every writer at DC to toy with as they pleased, which, to be honest, makes it very difficult for me to reintroduce them with any sense of novelty, mystery or grandeur. So in cases like this, where fellow creators have overlooked my carefully established additions to DC continuity or ignored my pleas to hold certain characters in reserve, my intention is to follow the through-line I’ve established in my own work so that there’s at least some long-term consistency.
And that says it all, really. The script for this issue (parts of which have shown up online) was written two years ago. DC had plenty of time to make things work, and they simply dropped the ball.
Sorry, guys.
