Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the series, most of the tie ins, and in general the air of weirdness that accompanied the story itself. However, there was stuff that, as I was reading it, made absolutely no sense whatsoever. But, its a Grant Morrison helmed event so I knew one reading wouldn't suffice and therefore I have gone back to the series, no taken as a whole, and am rereading the main book, Superman Beyond, as well as Submit and Resist.
Okay so I get the Darkside falling through realities causing waves stuff. I get the fractured time, space and reality stuff. I get that the entire multiverse is at stake.
I don't get how Barry is back. I don't quite grasp the bullet being fired backward through time but I'm willing to go with it. I don't get who, what or why this Monitor Vampire shows up (though I still have four issues to read so maybe its explained and on my first read through I just missed it) even though hes the main baddie in Beyond. Wasn't the big bad of FC supposed to be Darkside? Bam! Nope here's a cosmic Vampire god to confuse you! I don't get why Grant structured the sixth issue the way he did. I can go with his hyper style of writing but the sixth issue read like a six year old on a sugar rush had written it. I don't get some of the stuff relating to Batman. I get that the omega beams sent him back in time but not some of the other stuff such as how he put that gun together to begin with.
BUT, I like that I don't get that. I like it that I have to reread a comic to understand everything. That's rewarding after plunking down over a hundred bucks on this event and all its ancillary spin offs. Heck some how I ended up with doubles of every issue so I don't mind one bit that I have to reread it to understand everything. Its like Morrison has crafted the superhero equivalent of 2001 A Space Odyssey. Props to you sir!
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