On May 28th, the final arch in a two-decade trilogy is set to begin with Final Crisis #1.   Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and what could be the Flash will go toe to toe with the biggest crisis ever to hit the DCU as the nefarious Libra amasses an army of villains to exploit the negative downturns the DCU heroes have experienced in the last couple of years.

Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman) and J.G. Jones (52) are set to revolutionize the universe with their Final Crisis, but to some this is just another event.  Do you think this is going to be the big deal that DC keeps saying it is?  Is it really going to be the end of a trilogy, where everything gets wrapped up from a story started 20 years ago?

Either way, we have an exclusive look at 5 pages from Final Crisis #1: DOA: The God of War, plus a sketch layout of the evolution of Darkseid by J.G. Jones right here:

Click through the jump to see pages 3,4 and 5 of this Final Crisis #1 preview!

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Storyline: Amazons Attack! (part 6 of 6)
Date: August 29, 2007
Price: $2.99 US / $3.65 CAN
Writer: Will Pfeifer
Artist: Pete Woods

Synopsis: It’s all-out carnage and mayhem as all factions in the war fight the final battle! Wonder Woman takes on Hippolyta in a duel that can have only one outcome; the true reasons behind the war are discovered; and the gods make their presence known in a terrible way! Change is afoot in the DCU, and some big changes are about to happen here!

Opinion: I’ve never been happy with IGN’s comic reviews, and this is one of the reasons why: Needlessly harsh reviews. Okay, so Amazons Attacks wasn’t Infinite Crisis. But you know what? It was enjoyable. It had a few skips along the way, but once it got going, it was good. This issue manages to tie things up really well and doesn’t end anti-climatically. Plus, it answers the question of just why Athena seemed strange recently. And why is that?

I can’t tell you. It’d be a massive, massive spoiler. Needless to say, it was a surprise. Major twist, that caught me so off guard, I went ‘huh?’, then laughed histerically at the sheer surprise of it. It’s a good surprise and explans a lot. And I’ll say this, it involves a villian Wonder Woman has had history with before, but not one you’d suspect off the top of your head…generally.

All in all, this issue does two things. 1. It sets up a lot of stuff for a lot of places, some for Wonder Woman, some for Countdown. 2. It proves that a Summer event CAN come out and be done…IN SUMMER. It didn’t get delayed for a year, and it’s actually DONE (unlike Civil War), so it at least has that going for it. I liked it, and while it’s not a ‘need to get’, it’s certainly not a bad thing if you have little extra cash to invest.

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