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Final Crisis #1

June 9, 2008: Grant Morrison Interview About "Final Crisis" #1

Newsarama.com has an interview with Grant Morrison, the writer of "Final Crisis" regarding the first issue. In the interview, Morrison specifically addresses some of the seeming continuity differences between events in "Death of the New Gods" and "Final Crisis":

    Why didn't Superman recount his experiences from ["Death of the New Gods"]? Because those experiences hadn't been thought up or written when I completed "Final Crisis" #1. If there was only me involved, Orion would have been the first dead New God we saw in a DC comic, starting off the chain of events that we see in "Final Crisis". As it is, the best I can do is suggest that the somewhat contradictory depictions of Orion and Darkseid's last-last-last battle that we witnessed in "Countdown" and ["Death of the New Gods"] recently were apocryphal attempts to describe an indescribable cosmic event.

    To reiterate, hopefully for the last time, when we started work on Final Crisis, J.G. and I had no idea what was going to happen in "Countdown" or "Death Of The New Gods" because neither of those books existed at that point. The "Countdown" writers were later asked to 'seed' material from "Final Crisis" and in some cases, probably due to the pressure of filling the pages of a weekly book, that seeding amounted to entire plotlines veering off in directions I had never envisaged, anticipated or planned for in "Final Crisis".

Read the full interview at Newsarama.com.



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