Justice League: Darkseid War started out ok, the focus on WW was weird since I don't read her book but fine. It really reminded me of Final Crisis which can be good or bad...
That's what it is...it feels like Johns doing the ultimate battle with Darkseid part of Final Crisis. I couldn't put my finger on it.
Speaking of Morrison, I wonder why DC bothered to do The Multiversity and Convergence at basically the same time. Why "map" the Multiverse if you're just going to shatter the concept completely and allow all your books to supposedly go wherever they want. Although technically they will probably "fit" into one of those worlds.
And this was really just an extensively dumb way to end and then reboot the Earth 2 series. I'll have to look at Batman Beyond to see if Futures End's plotline is actually going to go anywhere. I really liked the start of that...and Earth 2...before they went all silly. I can't imagine the readership on Earth 2 was large enough to make them the central characters in Convergence, but maybe it was?
Also, just to comment on confusion you had above I think the primary difference is that Infinite Crisis created a new multiverse, but everything that got wiped out with Crisis was still wiped out unless otherwise noted or changed by Zero Hour/Infinite Crisis/Flashpoint/Bloodlines/Secret Origins/Armaggedon 2001/Hawkworld/Justice League Cry for Justice/etc. What they've done with Convergence is say not only is there a multiverse but all that pre-Crisis stuff never got wiped out in the first place so it's all usable again. (Even though Morrison and others were using it anyway, now they don't need to come up with explanations for it.)
Trinity War/Forever Evil was still the dumbest part of the New 52 imo, felt like it had no plan or point even if it did bring back the Anti-Monitor. (Which means Crisis did happen? Or hadn't in the first place and Convergence explains why? Wait...he came back before multiple times, are there still a bunch of Monitors who don't seem to care about him? Or just Nix Uotan? Or is he just the Monitor of this multiverse since there's multiple multiverses according to The Multiversity.)
The Wonder Woman focus is mostly explained in Divergence, but there's been a running plot in WW about her ignoring/harming her sisters to the benefit of the "world of men." Also, she's now the God of War if that hasn't been mentioned anywhere else and there's a whole bunch of responsibilities with that too she's failing to accept, mainly the whole slaughtering people through war thing. Then there's her internship at the fashion magazine plus wacky dates with the reporter from the Daily Planet.
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Also, Donna Troy is back and trying to usurp her throne.
The thing I liked about Infinite Crisis, wasn't it, as much as the events on either side of it, OMAC Project, Day of Vengeance, 52, Shadowpact, Checkmate, Secret Six, etc. those felt like "big deal" status changing events more than Infinite Crisis itself. Batman's increasing paranoia, Wonder Woman killing, the major changes to how magic worked, the "human" response to the superpowered, the acknowledgement of the need of black ops heroes and not just the Suicide Squad, Black Adam seizing control of a country and personally going to "war" with everybody because why not.
If the Death of the Fourth World/Multiverse hadn't been so poorly handled, Countdown so absolutely terrible, and Blackest Night/Flashpoint so immediately in the wake, Final Crisis would have been maybe a more definitive DC event with The Bleed, The Legion and New Gods so tied in along with Superman and Batman. Should have just expanded Final Crisis by five issues and let Morrison handle the Death of the New Gods/Multiverses to start it. He did more with less than Countdown had done with its attempt at a "big deal" killing off of the different Earths. And it would have kept things tighter.
I guess it's rather amusing that the main analogy of Final Crisis is what DC editorial is now accepting. Convergence's two issues of plot stretched over nine issues with 80% of it hastily explained at the end after [meaningless crap] occurs throughout most of it retroactively made me appreciate Morrison's way of destroying and recreating the Multiverse a lot more. And also bookend plot of The Multiversity. Which now seems like Morrison trying to wrap up his "DC arc" that goes back to Animal Man (or at least Seven Soldiers...he says it only goes back to his return to DC after Marvel, but a lot of the same stuff is all over Doom Patrol and JLA...and Flex Mentallo...and The Filth) before bailing out. (I don't think he's got anything further planned for DC except Wonder Woman Earth One? I know he's got a number of other stuff like the Nameless and Annihilator coming out though and he wanted to focus on creator-owned stuff more.)
Disclosure: OMAC Project was what got me back into DC's mainline comics after I had drifted off following No Man's Land, I thought it and the mid-point of Final Crisis are some of the bigger "high stakes" moments in modern D.C. where I actually felt like a point of no return had been crossed. In Final Crisis it literally was, OMAC left a whole bunch of plot strands danging throughout Checkmate and 52 and into Final Crisis until Rucka left DC and Johns wiped most everything else in DC out with his 500 Green Lantern titles and crossovers and his incoherent after the beginning (kinda like...GL) Flash garbage*.
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Yeah, yeah, I read all of it and some of it is really good...emphasis on some.
