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Geoff Johns talks Final Crisis: Revelation
NRAMA: OK, next in DC Universe #0 is a teaser for Final Crisis: Revelations. Can you talk about that preview story?
GJ: It’s Revelation with no “s,” isn’t it?
NRAMA: Well, no “s” is the way we were told by Greg Rucka for the interviews we did with him and artist Philip Tan. But the advertisement in DC Universe #0 says Revelations with an “s.” Even Greg has it two different ways on his blog. So it’s a little confusing. Can you clarify it?
GJ: I know that’s a common mistake we’ve all made, but the proper way is no “s.” That’s Greg’s book. I can say that I’ve read the first two scripts, and it’s my favorite thing I’ve ever read by Greg. And that includes the Question/Renee Montoya banter.
But I will talk a little about the Spectre, because this is something we’ve discussed a lot. If you look at the Spectre throughout history, he focuses in on those who deserve swift and sometimes cruel punishment and he’d enact it in often violent and bizarre ways. But when the chips were down and when everything would hit the fan, the Spectre would rise up and he’d act as this huge force of good. And in this issue, we talk about how this new host for the Spectre has yet to do that. Detective Cris Allen has yet to understand his role. Right now, his role is to enact vengeance, an eye for an eye. In that page, we see he won’t look up in the sky. He doesn’t realize his role is much bigger.
NRAMA: He’s bigger than just gravediggers and small-time murderers.
GJ: He should be. We see Corrigan arm-wrestling the Anti-Monitor for all of creation and then Cris Allen turning a killer into maggots from the inside out.
NRAMA: I know you can’t talk about the narration, but it talks about prayer.
GJ: Yeah.
NRAMA: And obviously, since Revelation focuses on God’s spirit of vengeance, it will have religious overtones?
GJ: Again, I don’t want to talk too much about Greg’s book, just what was in DC Universe #0.
NRAMA: But that religious context continues into the next segment, where Final Crisis has that same feeling, doesn’t it?
GJ: There’s a Biblical sense to it all. Grant created the Crime Bible, and Greg really built upon it. There’s a lot more to the Crime Bible and the religious tone. Libra’s more like an evangelist. Grant’s got him playing like an evangelist. There’s a reason for it.
NRAMA: He’s almost like a prophet, foretelling the coming of the New Gods.
GJ: Yeah, a prophet. And you just see a touch of him there.
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