Final Crisis: Superman Beyond - 3D #1 - DC

In the last issue of Final Crisis . . issue #3 . . . a woman shows up in Lois' hospital room claiming that she knows Clark is Superman, and that she can save Lois. Basically she's frozen time on our world, and asks that Superman comes with her to try to help her save the multiverse. This is the story of what happens in the space of nanoseconds there. She has to illuminate Superman as to how the multiverse works. She explains to him about the bleed and how it keeps the various universe's separate, but can also be used to heal his wife. However, her, and her people, are the only one capable of touching or bottling it. I'm thinking that she's a Monitor. There's really nothing to suggest that . . other than maybe a little bit with her looks . . but that's what I'm thinking. It's actually a little hard to get the comprehension of what's going on in this issue because Grant Morrison has really thrown a lot of ideas in to this one. Throughout the whole issue it feels like there's so much stuff coming at us that it's hard to keep it all straight, let alone figuring out how it all works and is related to one another. There's a whole lot of fantastic ideas going on in here. So anyways, I guess, Superman has to figure out how to save the multiverse and thereby save Lois. But it hasn't really been explained to him what it is he has to do. It really feels like he's just kind of 'winging it'. However, the one thing I do understand is that we start to get a little of the history of the Monitors. We find out a little this issue about the first one . . the unknowable Monitor. Basically it was his intervention that caused the universe to split. Or, I guess, the original split. Because obviously it split more after that. Doug Mahnke does the art on this issue and it really is fantastic. After the next issue comes out, I'll probably have to go back and read this one, because, like I said, I really don't know how this one all fits together. I'm sure the next issue will help to illuminate that. By the way . . the 3-D effects were also incredible.