I'll gladly fill you in on what's unclear to you.

As with every "major crisis" the world will go back to normal with a some minor changes and maybe a couple big ones (a la Connor's death in IC). Maybe I just long for the days when a Crisis was 12 issues long and the bad guy ended up being a giant fireball that Superman could kill by punching...

I think the series is underwhelming because it demands twelve issues, at JLA: Heaven's Ladder proportions to make it work. As it is, I feel like there's stuff going on offpage, and I don't mean the various tie-in books that I can pick up for a buck each at comic conventions.

Who is that on the last page? I kept thinking that I recognized the pattern on the jacket, and now I know: it's Secret from Young Justice. Seriously, it that Metron? Black Racer? Orion?

I bloody well can't.

As to the OMAC stuff - fine question, but I think that's one of the things we'll have to see the next couple of issues to know if that was just dropped or if it is being worked in a different way (like, as someone mentioned, as perhaps sleeper agents by Terrific).

I'm ASSUMING - although not positive - that it happened in the gap between #s 3 and 4. Terrific's unleashed the OMAC army, but he hasn't used them yet. Presumably they'll be used along with the Biomacs (heh, great name there) once the castle shields fall.

(Just checked - there's timestamps throughout the book that place it in the month between 3 and 4. So either the OMACs didn't work... or Mr. Terrific did something very smart like hiding them amidst all the slaves of Darkseid, ready to be activated at the last second. That'd be one hell of a finish.).

And re: the collected edition issue, Infinite Crisis was possibly even worse than that, as all the follow-up specials from the four miniseries were basically bridges between individual issues.

My favorite bit was watching the Green Lanterns do a free fall into Earth.

I do have a qualm. The fact that most of the New Gods haven't revealed their true forms or those awesome designs we saw in the Preview a while back is a little frustrating. It's cool Desaad and Granny Goodness are hiding in these other characters but it's been 5 issues and it looks like it's only just now going to happen.

I'm hoping Morrison gets a 5th World or New Gods book after this but who knows.

You probably meant to use that other misused word, "continuity," instead.

Snark aside, I think it's pretty clear that like RIP, FC will make more (or some) sense after it's concluded and collected, including the spin-offs (if there's more than one issue, calling 'em one-shots is a misnomer, btw.)

Yeah, picky, picky, picky. But I'm just as self-critical, so there.

Who *was* that furry guy, by the way?

Complaints on the internet are never proportionate to the issue being complained about.

It has to be a bombastic celebration of human individuality personified in a man's desire to dress up in gaudy colors and punch someone named Captain Cold in the face.

Script-wise, this is really strong stuff and it feels like the culmination of Morrison's capital "S" superhero story. It seems to grow out of Seven Soldiers both in terms of themes (legacies and the evolution of heroes; roles of the creator on creation and vice versa) and technique (the pointillism Brian talks about above or the much decried non-ending to "R.I.P"), while still giving us some funnybook "F#@$ Yeah" moments.

This is going to read really well as a whole, I think - as is usually the case with the God of All Comics. My big question is whether DC is going to have the cahones to stick with the Fifth World (how and whatever that ends up being, but damn isn't the new monitor design SWEET, as are Super Young Team as the new Forever People) as their in-continuity status quo...

I also thought that Revelations was really good this week. I think DC editorial deserves some credit for coming up with (or following through on Morrison's) story-driven means of removing big players from the board for FC. If the Crime Bible stuff was always intended to play out and tie into FC this way...extra kudos to Rucka, Morrison and the rest of team 52.