Final Crisis #3 - DC

This is an incredible series. Grant Morrison is really doing a great job of weaving a whole lot of the DC Universe into this series and it's required addendums. I'm just kidding. They aren't really required, but . . if you're reading this series, you'll definitely want to pick them up. They're all fantastic and you won't be disappointed. A few things that came to my attention this issue. First of all we see that Frankenstein is working for SHADE, and Father Time. Back in the Seven Soldiers storyline, that Grant also wrote, we got a mini-series with Frankenstein in it, but we haven't seen him since. We also see the return of Mister Miracle, the Shilo Norman character, that we also haven't seen since Seven Soldiers. It appears that all of the Apocalypse characters are actually here on Earth . . in human form . . as evidenced with the Dark Side Club. So, if the evil characters are here, couldn't the New Genesis characters be here also? This Super Young Team that Shilo hooks up with in Japan, they kind of remind me of the Forever People . . you know, that young gang from, I think, Supertown? So then I have to think, if they are here in some form . . Lightray, Metron, Orion and whomever else . . how come we haven't seen them yet? Amnesia maybe, from their traumatic endings . . or metamorphosis'? Anyways, Superman is taken out of this reality by someone claiming to be able to save Lois. That storyline will be leading directly into the Superman: Beyond - 3D series. Some of the old-time heroes have decided to take a cue from President Roosevelt and enact Article X . . . the draft for Super-heroes. Wonder Woman has been attacked in Bludhaven by . . . Mary Marvel? . . and transformed into a Justifier. Whatever that is. Barry Allen is trying to figure out why he's been brought back, if all he could do was watch Orion get shot . . unable to get there fast enough. And . . . the Anti-Life equation has been sent out over the Internet in E-Mail form. In order to stop it . . Oracle will have to . . . "Kill the Net!" It's amazing to me how Grant comes up with all of this stuff, but . . I also have to give tremendous credit to JG Jones for being able to visualize it all . . . and to keep up with him. This is a fantastic series. It gets better with every issue, and I can't believe how well orchestrated all of the various spin-off mini-series are. They're not just some story that happens to be related to some part of the series . . they are intricately connect, and are basically direct extensions of the book. Fan-frikkin-tastic! I don't know what else to say.