As good as 'Blackest Night' is turning out to be FC was the antithesis...pure crap. DC is finally redeeming itself, however.
But in the spirit of how bad FC is, I invite you all to create your own bad ending to a comics storyline (Marvel/DC/Image/uh, other??). I'll go first, in creating an ending that would rival FC in sheer idiocy.
*ahem*
Infinity Gauntlet
It is a bleak time for the superheroes of earth, sent on a suicide mission to defeat Thanos and his 'Infinity Gauntlet'.
The heroes are being slaughtered left and right by Thano's omnipotent glove. All hope seems lost...
Then, suddenly the Punisher shows up, mystically summoned by Dr. Strange. The Punisher targets his laser-sighted Baretta on Thanos' wrinkly-purple forehead and lets a bullet tear into Thano's skull. The mad titan keels over dead.
Adam Warlock dashes out of the crowd, grabbing the IG off of Thanos limp body, yelling 'Yoink!' as he does it. He disappears into the ether (setting up Warlock and the Infinity Watch).
The Ewok song 'Yub-Yub' from ROTJ plays in the background as all the assembled heroes begin line dancing. Hulk and Drax begin doing the 'Boot-Scootin' Boogie'.
As Punisher gazes into the heavens on Thano's platform he sees Mistress Death, Eternity and LT gazing approvingly down at him (like Ben Annakin and Yoda in ROTJ...
Honestly, after all the "The Day Evil Won" hype leading up to it, I would have just been happy with, ya know, evil actually winning. Like Thanos: The End where he literally destroys everything. It's been shown that even after such an occurrence, it's possible to bring everything back. Morrison really could've delved into the philosophical aspects of Darkseid's total dominion, and the nature of the ALE itself.
Instead, we got a confusing story, which still managed to be trite in its "heroes save the day" nature.
FC ends with the use of the martian Life Equation to take down the ALE,and an epic battle with Libra's society and the ressurected new gods at the end of the universe that still ends with J'onn dying,only by throwing himself and Darkseid into the source, in a shout-out to DC one-million.
Mandrakk would then get his own event at a later date,where he actually appears in the main event for more then 20 panels.
I hate false promises too, but FC was easily one of the best written and intelligent big event crossovers in comics.
Evil won partially, but comic fans are not yet ready for a radical reshuffling of there favorite fictional universes. Imagine how most DC fans would have taken the idea of fugitive super heroes issue after issue for the next year or more?
Did DC fans honestly want to read about several story arcs of the Lanterns, Supermen et al running and hiding in the shadows for months or years trying to avoid the ALE?
I personally wouldn't have minded a story like this, it would be an interesting take but there are plenty Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Lantern fans that wouldn't appreciate it.
It wouldn't sit well with many comic fans to see their favorite fictional universes to go through such a huge and long-term (relatively speaking) change.
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I disagree completely with the thread starter. Final crisis is superior event to blackest night in every way.
Blackest night is safe pedestrian comics and has yet to reach the highs sinestro corps did. To be honest I've enjoyed the tie ins much more than the event itself.
Not to say it isn't good, it's just not wowed me.
Also for those that hate final crisis, good god just accept that other people did like it and a good number of people had no trouble understanding it. They're not lying they just like different kinds of comics to you.
I think people can accept that. But that's not the point. Did I understand FC? Yes. Did I think that it was an unnecessarily disjointed plot that ultimately only undermined Morrison's own efforts, which are commendable but also self defeatist? Yes, yes I did.
I quite enjoyed his channel surfing approach it succeeded for me. It's perfectly fine disliking it for the different narative style that was used in the story but there is a lot of irrational hatred for the book. Like the phrase 'Morrison apologist' which is a popular argument that claims anyone who claims to like it lying to protect Morrison
Look at the venom in the first post. In an industry where Loeb is still allow to write his revenge fics and be paid for them, final crisis is the story that makes him angry?
Besides it included Superman Beyond. Which was so good the main mini could of consisted of photo's of morrison taking drugs while dressed as various super heroes and I would of still hailed it as a success solely due to Superman beyond.
And for those that found Final crisis disjointed and confusing try flex mentallo.
honestly, the ending to FC would have been MUCH better [imo] had there been one or two more issues to better, and more thoroughly, explain what exactly was happening - instead of leaving it up to the readers to piece things together.
i mean jebus christ, grundy even got 7 issues in his mini. ..... hell, tangent superman got 12 issues..... yet you mean to tell me DC couldn't spare a few more issues for their supposed "biggest event " at that time? please.
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Even Ma-liefeld-gog is getting his own miniseries, and they couldn't afford to give Final Crisis another issue? Countdown was like 50 issues of torture and being pissed on, and they can't extend Final Crisis one issue?
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Sep 8th, 2009 11:00 PM
..... hell, tangent superman got 12 issues..... yet you mean to tell me DC couldn't spare a few more issues for their supposed "biggest event " at that time? please. 
