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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Ultimate vs Marvel comparison to bring you this review of Final Crisis #4.  In a word: “huh?”  After reading this book, all I can do is shake my head and ask “what is happening here?”  A month has passed (I think) since last issue, and the world has fallen to Darkseid.  Except that Darkseid hasn’t done anything, can’t do anything, because he is busy fighting to get himself reborn in Dan Turpin’s body.

The world’s greatest superheroes appear to be trapped in a giant glass bottle in the Hall of Justice, while the world’s OKest heroes (Green Arrow, Black Canary, the Ray, Tattooed Man, the Flash Kids, and Oracle) ignore them and develop battle plans with the other surviving heroes from their six secret bases around the world.

Barry Allen, the original Flash, was reconstituted from some random molecules, or something such, and uses his super kissing power (ala Superman II) to rescue his wife Iris from the anti-life equation.  Superman is off in another dimension still (in Superman Beyond) while also simultaneously visiting  the 30^th Century (in Legion of Three Worlds) and being trapped in the aforementioned giant bottle. 

I just don’t get it.      

Tomorrow: Ultimate Colossus vs the Main Marvel Universe Colossus