>>108273415Pretty much EVERYTHING wrong with Final Crisis is on Dan Didio. From the event having tons of lead-up to it that were based on guesses of what Morrison might be doing on Final Crisis itself, from Final Crisis itself being disjointed as fuck because what was supposed to be a maxi-series was dismembered into a maxi and several one-shots and a mini.
Morrison told Didio that he wanted to Final Crisis like he did Seven Soldiers of Victory. A closed maxi-series. He had also warned Didio when he jumped ship to DC that he would only deliver his scripts when ready and that he would never do any rewrites. You either approve his shit during the beginning, knowing full well what you're going to get, or you don't approve it at all. Didio said OK.
But then Countdown began to... well, it was a mess, and he felt that he could turn Countdown around by turning it into a lead-up to Final Crisis. Since he knew Morrison wouldn't divulge shit other than what he showed during his pitch, Didio based EVERY-FUCKING-THING from what he remembered from the pitch and random guesses from himself and editors. And Countdown wasn't enough. So he came up with Death of the New Gods and several other minis and one-shots. Nothing made sense.
When Morrison finally delivered Final Crisis, Didio thought he could make more mini if he transformed this single maxi-series into minis, ones-shots, and so on. So he hacked the comic to pieces. This is why Final Crisis, Superman Beyond, and so on feel so empty, rushed, and bloated here and there. He also created more minis and one-shots to serve as tie-ins.
It was a shitshow.