Final Crisis Vol 1 1

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"D. O. A.: The GOD of WAR!"

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Final Crisis Vol 1 #1
July, 2008

Executive Editor

Dan DiDio

Cover Artists

J.G. Jones

Writers

Grant Morrison

Pencilers

J.G. Jones

Inkers

J.G. Jones

Colourists

Alex Sinclair

Letterers

Rob Leigh

Editors

Eddie Berganza, Adam Schlagman

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Synopsis for "D. O. A.: The GOD of WAR!"

In the dawn of humanity, Anthro is visited by Metron, who gives him "knowledge" and departs. Later that night, as Neandethal raiders attack his tribe, they are forced back by Anthro, who sets a brushfire to stop them.

In the present, Dan Turpin is patrolling the Metropolis docks as part of an investigation into some missing kids. His investigation takes a turn when he finds Orion of the New Gods, dying in a garbage skip. Upon claiming "They did not die!" and urging Turpin to "fight", he dies. Upon his death, the skies of the world turn red, signalling the beginning of something. In Detroit, John Stewart leaves his day job in response to a crime, a "1011 in progress".

Dan Turpin cannot face the death of a god, so he goes to meet the Question on a bridge. She tells him about the 'Dark Side Club', and asks him to be careful before departing: some force is kidnapping metahuman children.

At the docks, Hal Jordan and John Stewart have arived. Hal overslept, but is shocked to discover a 1011 - deicide. They split up to alert the Guardians of the Universe and the Justice League. The Guardians respond by sending a Special Operations Alpha Lantern unit to seal off the crime scene - Earth itself. The Justice League respond by putting themselves at Condition Amber.

In a junkyard, a new superteam called the League of Titans - Empress, Sparx, and Más y Menos - are tracking an artifact, when they are attacked by Doctor Light and Mirror Master. No other heroes are available to help, because they are breaking up a super-villain protest march in Metropolis. The artifact is revealed as Metron's Mobius Chair, which is wanted by Libra for mysterious reasons.

Meanwhile, the Injustice League high council is arguing against a takeover by Libra, the mysterious new leader of the Secret Society of Super-Villains. To prove his skill, he brings in the captive Martian Manhunter and sents him on fire.

Dan Turpin is brought to the Dark Side Club, where he is introduced to Boss Dark Side. Turpin accuses him of involvement with the missing kids, and Dark Side subdues him. He introduces the kids - now converted, through the Anti-Life Equation, into glowing-eyed mindless slaves.

Outside existence, the Multiversal Monitors are engaged in a trial. Nix Uotan, Monitor of Earth-51, stands accused of negligence harmful to the Orrery of Worlds, and is sentenced to a human existence on New Earth - much to the sadness of his love, Weeja Dell. While crying, she considers that the once-faceless and -nameless Monitors have become very like the transient lifeforms they monitor. However, Solomon intends to use Nix Uotan's punishment to further his own plans.

During a sunset, Anthro is drawing a strange symbol on the ground with a burnt stick. Suddenly he sees the ruins of New York, where Kamandi shouts that Metron gave him "a weapon against the gods". Blinking, Anthro is back in his own time. In a daze, he draws Metron's facial markings on his own face.

A young student with Nix Uotan's haircut is waking up from oversleeping. He thinks he will be in trouble. However, he then hears the news - someone has murdered the Martian Manhunter...

Notes

• DC Comics' Solicitation: Witness the historic start of the final chapter in the Crisis trilogy that could only spring from the mind of Grant Morrison — Final Crisis, featuring stunning art by J.G. Jones (52 Covers)! Worlds will live and heroes will die in this epic tale spanning the beginning and end of the DC Universe! The entire Multiverse is threatened as the mysterious Libra assembles an army of the DCU's most terrifying super villains. But what is the ultimate plan, and who will live to find out?

Trivia

• The mobile phone the Human Flame is using is made by a company called 'Damrung'. In addition to echoing 'Samsung', this also suggests the title "Götterdämmerung."
• According to an interview given at the Wonderworld Philadelphia Convention, the caveman with the belt of skulls, from the fourth page, is a previous version of Vandal Savage.

• John Stewart does not appear to recognize Orion even though the two met during the Cosmic Odyssey limited series.

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Event Synopsis: D. O. A.: The GOD of WAR! There was a war in heaven, and Evil won. A mysterious and long forgotten supervillain named "Libra" has returned to Earth, and is assembling a new Secret Society of Super-Villains for unclear purposes. He has promised an "end to the age of superheroes," and to every villain who helps him their heart's desire. When asked what his team is for, Libra ambiguously responds "Anything you want. Anything at all." The full extent of his capabilities are unclear, but he has already slain the Martian Manhunter, at the behest of one of his line-up's villains, The Human Flame. Libra claims to be serving a higher power, although exactly what is unclear. In Blüdhaven, Dan Turpin meets a new crimelord, "Boss Dark Side," who appears to be a human reincarnation of Darkseid himself. "Dark Side" has been abducting metahuman children, and giving them to "Granny," brainwashing them into evil creatures beyond the point of redemption; he has been teaching them how to use the Anti-Life Equation. Darkseid tells Turpin that there was a war in heaven, and that he won. The "future belongs to Dark Side now." Meanwhile, the Monitors have been growing increasingly different as their realities do. Whereas once they were 52 identical beings, now time has entered their world after their interactions with mortals, and they are aging, and falling in love, and becoming capable of betrayal. For what have been deemed his failures in the Multiverse, Monitor Nix Uotan is given the harshest punishment for a monitor. He is stripped of his powers, and sentenced to a life of mortality on Earth as a human. Ticket to Blüdhaven In Tokyo, Sonny Sumo agrees to team up with Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman) and the Super Young Team in response to the news that the New Gods of Apokolips have come to Earth. However, the evil Gods have already prepared their base; in the atomic ruins of Blüdhaven, where they have trapped hundreds of people to transform into slaves, among them Batman. The gods can only act in the world through human agents - grim news for Dan Turpin, who has been selected as a host by Darkseid. The Secret Society has expanded with the news that they killed the Martian Manhunter. Lex Luthor does not approve of Libra or his policies, but Vandal Savage has sided with Libra. The Human Flame is about to discover the price of his request to kill the Martian Manhunter, while the Society targets its next victim - the Daily Planet, workplace of Clark Kent, which is destroyed by a bomb set by Clayface. The investigation of Orion's murder continues to drag on, through several disturbances: the assault on John Stewart at the crime scene, the double-cross of Alpha Lantern Investigator Kraken, the sublimation of Orion's corpse back to the Source, and the discovery of a good candiate for murder weapon - a bullet made of Radion, a substance fatal to New Gods - in undisturbed fifty-year-old soil. Batman's only theory, before being kidnapped, was that the bullet was fired backwards through time itself. Nix Uotan has adjusted to his newfound humanity, searching for his Monitor's "word of command" while sketching the images of otherworldly superhumans which he gets occasionally gets. In Central City, the Flashes have tracked a small earthquake to the site of the Martian Manhunter's murder. Searching the crimescene, they find a Crime Bible, specks of Martian blood, and a replica of Metron's Möbius Chair. The replica chair suddenly the focus of a Boom Tube which, out of which comes the Radion bullet, chased by the long-dead Barry Allen and the mysterious Black Racer of the Fourth World. Know Evil SHADE hits the Dark Side Club, finding Boss Dark Side's corpse. Command-D Bunker is taken over by a crimelord. Question encounters a falling woman called Uberfraulein, who dies saying "the sky is bleeding". Jay Garrick tells his wife of Barry Allen's return. Libra enslaves the Human Flame with the Anti-Life Equation. Clark Kent keeps Lois alive and Zillo Valla offers him the chance to save her. The Alpha Lanterns arrest Hal Jordan, while a protective shield around the Earth means nothing can get in or out until the Alpha Lanterns come back. Wonder Woman believes the events are the work of the New Gods. Alan Scott invokes Article X, which allows for the drafting of superheroes. Wonder Woman investigates Command-D. Mary Marvel appears and infects Wonder Woman with a plague from Darkseid. In the bunker, Mokkari spreads the Anti-Life Equation via email to the entire planet. The Flashes have run a month into the future. Barry remarks that it was impossible to save Orion, and he doesn't know why he was brough back. Then he looks up - the sky is red, and Wonder Woman is leading a group of murderous superwomen to kill both Flashes... Submit Followed by synopsis of issue Darkseid Says Followed by synopsis of issue Final Crisis Vol 1 5 Insert comic cover image (left) sized at 150px Followed by synopsis of issue Final Crisis Vol 1 6 Insert comic cover image (left) sized at 150px Followed by synopsis of issue Final Crisis Vol 1 7 Insert comic cover image (left) sized at 150px Followed by synopsis of issue

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