Brians Superman Post

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Having just read Final Crisis, I can say with confidence that the trailer was made by people who have skimmed through the comic, seen a couple of impressive images and tried to cobble together a context for them. Probably with the mission statement of getting the heroes dead.

Some highlights:
*A mysterious dude called Libra kills the Martian Manhunter with a spear of fire while Luthor watches. You can see how they took the dynamics and perspectives of the scene and replaced the characters with more familiar ones.
*Superman at one point possesses a Superman robot some ten million light years tall and made of dark, gritty materials that looks suspiciously like the Superman of the trailer.
*Superman returns to Earth from a mysterious exile, scorching everything in desperate rage as he learns Batman just died.

The trailer just makes all this seem furiously wrong by putting it in the wrong context, lacking about 400 pages of plot. I mention this just in case anyone thinks it's an awful grimdark sort of book. It runs on one fifth humor, three fifths trademark Grant Morrison brainbending fun, seven fifths pure awesome, and there is a miracle machine. It makes all your dreams come true. And Superman uses it.