Final Crisis - Revelations #3 - DC

Wow! That was a powerful book. Although I'm thinking I need to go back and reread the Crime Bible mini-series . . the Five Lessons of Blood. That's where this whole thing with the Order of the Stone and Wrack is explained. Renee, the Question, established herself as the leader of the Order. Or I guess I should say the prophecies in the Crime Bible did. Anyways, although not a position she coveted, she did decide to use it to try to keep the Order in check. Or at least the best she could. In doing so, she tried to keep the Order from using the Spear of Destiny. She knew that it was the instrument to establish Cain's return. However, not knowing her motives, the Spectre came after her for the crime's of the Order. "If a fish stinks . . it stinks at the head." Which is how she lost the Spear, and the order used it to fulfill the prophecy. Now, all of this is happening as Darkseid's anti-life equation is spreading across the globe. So, I'm thinking, as the gods of Apokolips are hiding in human form, that so to is the Fourth World's religion hiding in the prophecies of this Earthly book . . the Crime Bible. We don't see all of the pieces yet, but . . it's definitely all connected. Just as a think that the Spectre and Radiant cannot separately affect the victims, or participants of the anti-life equation . . I'm thinking that they're going to have to relinquish their individualism, for the greater good, and become one cosmic entity in order to affect the outcome of this little drama. I don't think it's coincidental that Radiant has come forth right at this time when the world, and the Spectre, need her the most. It's a yin/yang thing . . vengeance/mercy . . male/female . . white/black . . all the clues are there. Now Cain, I think, is just the catalyst that's going to force them to make this ultimate decision. He's the ultimate evil that they have to come together to fight. I also think that Renee is going to play a much larger role in all of this than she realizes. Hers is a destiny that's been written in the Crime Bible . . it's nowhere near done yet. Now, all of that being said . . Greg Rucka has obviously done an incredible job writing this book. He knows whereof he speaks as he also wrote the Crime Bible books. And Philip Tan's artwork is incredible. I mean just look at that cover. I love the way all of these mini-series are filling in the holes in the Final Crisis book. It allows the story to be so much more broader than if it was being told in one series of books. The depth and scope of this story is so all encompassing of the DC Universe that the intricacy would've been lost trying to shove everything in to a single congruent story-line. I think it's a brilliant piece of work by architect Grant Morrison. And . . we're barely half-way through it. We've got so much ahead of us yet.