I wanted this event to be perfect and somehow it has failed to entertain me on any level.

I was operating on the mistaken assumption that Submit would actually depict how Black Lightning got the Metron circuit before giving it to Tattooed Man. Silly me, thinking that anything Final Crisis related would depict the events that actually advance the plot instead of just focusing on a bunch of disjointed vignettes depicting the fallout of said plot-advancing events while the main events of the story all happen off panel.

honestly, I just want to see the Flashes running around kissing everyone.

Thank you…for whatever reason my brain has a problem with “y”s.

And ejulp, the spelling is “sigil.”

I think the Metron circuit will be some representation of genuine love, and the strength found in that bond, Grant will pry reverse engineer the circuit into some kind of sygil (sp?).

Life Equation is just…love I’d assume, genuinely needing and loving someone, its pry how SPOILER…………..
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Dinah will get Ollie back, they seemed to foreshadow that by contrasting their last scene with the Barry’s. Barry cured his wife with a kiss.

I’d go for that. 3X2(9YZ)4A=Life

Now just figure out the variables.

I noticed that too, however I just assumed it was Hippolyta and the John Stewart thing isn’t so bad since issue 4 happens a few weeks after 3 so John is presumably healed.

I remember when the 90s at least had the decency to have the summer crossovers begin and end DURING the summer.

From this we can assume that the speed force=the life equations=the only thing that can counteract anti-life.

Then, the life equation is 3X2(9YZ)4A?

As we saw in this issue, when Barry kissed Iris, she awoke from the anti-life equation.

From this we can assume that the speed force=the life equations=the only thing that can counteract anti-life.

So, I predict that Final Crisis will end with the Flashes running around kissing everyone in the DCU.

No?

Ok, how about Wally just gives everyone in the world a little bit of speed force temporarily so that they can overcome anti-life. That better?

But… this was very good stuff, since, looking back at earlier issues, a LOT of stuff that was vague now makes a lot more sense.

But I don’t think Submit is in any way necessary – it really only goes into one plot point, namely how Tattooed Man got the design imprinted onto him. But beyond that, IC#4′s very efficient from a storytelling perspecive, once again getting a lot of information across in a minimum amount of time and not assuming the reader is unable to fill in the easier gaps.

It seems as though Morrison’s addressing several of the issues I had with the series earlier on, as well – Dinah’s actually behaving a bit more like the leader of the JLA she’s supposed to be, the weird-for-the-sake-of-weird elements are toned down, and it looks as though the good guys are co-ordinated and not running around like morons.

(My only complaint was a minor one – that Wonder Woman wasn’t listed as MIA or Corrupted on the big board. Well, that and the fact that Jon Stewart’s inexplicably on the cover when he never shows up in the issue.)

good day

Final Crisis IS good, by the way.

Final Crisis: Submit though was kind of disappointing. It read and looked like a last minute fill-in, which is odd considering it came out the same day as FC 4.