So how can Jonathan Kent be in this issue? And hey, why does Deathstroke assume that Geo-Force doesn't know his own country's native tongue? Nothing against Brad Meltzer, it's just that this story needed some editing. Another thing, readers know from the Superman comics that Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent talked about the death of Pa Kent, meaning the man must have died soon before Final Crisis began or the two heroes wouldn't have had time for this conversation. Also, Tim Drake and Black Lightning should both still be Justifiers if that's when this issue takes place. It opens up saying that the heroes expect the world to end the next day, which implies this takes place before Darkseid's final defeat in Final Crisis #7 when reality is collapsing, except that Bruce Wayne is seen alive and well in this issue. I've tried and tried and tried to make it fit into a Final Crisis timeline. I've read this comic book three times over, taking notes. And there was the mysterious scientist Metron, who seemed to be a New God yet claimed he was born on neither New Genesis nor Apokolips, that he was something unforeseen which existed before the New Gods and would be here after they were gone. Fighting for the side of light were Highfather, Lightray, Darkseid's son Orion, and others such as Scott Free, who gave up godhood to become the second Earth escape artist called Mr. There was the villainous Darkseid, master of the Omega Force, and his elite troops such as Granny Goodness, the Female Furies, Glorious Godfrey, Kalibak, and the torturer Desaad. By the same time that next year, comic book fans learned of the two cosmic worlds New Genesis and Apokolips and of their inhabitants, the New Gods. Over the next several issues, readers were introduced to Project Cadmus, the D.N.Aliens, and the twisted scientists Mokkari and Simyan who ran the Evil Factory. Forty years ago, Jack Kirby began his now-famous Fourth World saga in the pages of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #133.

Final Crisis by Grant Morrison