With this issue, Grant Morrison wraps up his huge, 30 issue spanning, storyline. For those that don't know, we had a beginning issue, a 4 issue mini series for each of the 7 Soldiers, and now this, a wrap-up issue. The ideas and complexity of the stories that Grant writes, is just astounding. To be able to keep all these characters, all these story lines, straight in his head, and then to be able to weave them all together into a common purpose and an ending, is just incredible. But with this issue, what's equally incredible, is J.H.Williams III's artwork. What he does with this book, is just off the hook. We start out with some of his usual stuff, what we got used to seeing on Promethea, which is some pretty great stuff. But, then he switches his style with each of the characters he's doing. We start out with a chapter on how the New Gods fit into this whole scheme, and he takes on a definite Jack Kirby feel to his work. We then move on to a chapter about the Shining Knight, and he has a definite Charles Vess feel. The connecting pages, are all in his original style. The next chapter, about the Guardian, is done in a newspaper style, with pencil drawings. Almost a Jerry Ordway type feel. The chapter on Klarion has a Mindy Newell (?) type feel to it. And the Frankenstein pages, actually feel like Doug Mahnke. I can't really pick who the Mr. Miracle pages remind me of, but the style is definitely different than all the other. Then in the final pages, when all the story lines are congealing together, individual panels have individual styles. It's simply amazing. And to know that he did all the art, cover, and colors in this book, is in itself a feat of heroism. Hope he gets a vacation after this book. By the way, Mr. Miracle is the one who died. Or is he?
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