After weeks of waiting, Final Crisis #4 is only two days away. I meant to post this last month, but pushed it off to look up some numbers, and never got around to it. So, before it gets Jossed, here’s how I would open the post-skip-month Final Crisis based on what we saw at the end of issue #3.
(Spoilers for Final Crisis #1-3. I haven’t read Final Crisis: Revelations, so this may contradict or retread a bit.)
Page 1.
Caption: One Month Ago.
People sitting at desktop and laptop computers, holding PDAs and smartphones.
Captions: 3 Billion People have access to the 24/7 world of the Internet. 2.5 billion use email. Within the first 6 hours, 1 billion fell to the Anti-Life Equation.
Show TV news playing in an empty room.
Anchor: “We have lost contact with Europe, Africa, and central Asia. Computer security experts suspect…”
Show people holding cell phones, blank eyes. Word balloons with tiny, illegible text showing sound leaking from the phones.
Captions: The average person in a first-world nation has 30 numbers stored in their cell phone. In the next 6 hours, the infection spread through sound.
Page 2.
More people with blank eyes, staring at TVs and radios. TV shows Glorious Godfrey.
Godfrey: (fragment of ALE)
Captions: Television and radio reach 4 billion people. In the next 6 hours, another billion fell.
Show panels of zombie-like people moving in on an isolated farmhouse, a Saharan-style hut, a shack on a beach, a mountain cabin.
Captions: The 3 billion spread the word of Dark Side to their neighbors who were less…connected.
Pages 3-4 (unfortunately, need an ad in there to get a double-page spread):
Full splash page of dismal ruins of city, throngs of ALE zombies. In the foreground, the Flashes on the left and the new Female Furies on the right. Essentially a widescreen view of what we saw at the end of #3.
Caption: Today.
(Yes, I made the numbers up. And again, I haven’t read Final Crisis: Revelations, so it may contradict published canon already.)