Final Crisis #3 is fucking awesome. Frankenstein, the Flashes, the draft, the Anti-Life Equation, Shilo Norman, Sonny Sumo, and the Super Young Team...
...well, after all that the ending seems a little flaccid. But the last-page shot of [spoiler]the new Female Furies[/spoiler] is pretty sweet.
I'm curious whether this will win over the doubters. I feel like the story's starting to stand on its own, but I also feel like people who haven't read Seven Soldiers or Fourth World are going to be left wondering who the hell all these characters are who keep showing up for two pages without explanation and then disappearing.
I know who Sonny Sumo is. I know his significance to this story. I know he knows the Anti-Life Equation (or used to; it seems like he's forgotten his role in The Forever People. And it bears noting that Mister Miracle also knew the Equation -- though that was Scott Free, not Shilo Norman, and it was in the 1990's Orion series, which Morrison may be ignoring). The majority of the readership probably doesn't know any of that. And again, that last page is going to be a whole lot less impressive to anyone who doesn't know [spoiler]who the Female Furies are[/spoiler], especially inasmuch as the "scary Wonder Woman" image is on the friggin' cover.
...Curious as to whether Orion's hair color is a mistake or a clue. (Was going to say something similar about Robin and Nightwing's disappearing, reappearing masks in Trinity #10, but forgot.) And I haven't been reading Outsiders -- is the new Aquaman actually capable of surviving on land now, or is that a continuity error?
Anyway. Nitpicking aside, as far as I'm concerned it's Morrison at his best.