Well, this Grant Morrison quote at Newsarama sure explains some of the disjointedness of Final Crisis #7:
I choose to leave out boring, as I saw it, connective tissue we didn’t really need for this story to work. I choose to leave out long-winded caption-heavy explanations that bring readers ‘up to speed’, even as they send them to sleep. And we left out the line-wide crossover tie-ins that have every detail of backstory spelled out laboriously by writers desperate to get back to their own plotlines. Otherwise, the whole thing is there on the page in word or picture form…and when interestingly-shaped story spaces can be opened out to make room for enthusiastic speculation and debate that adds to the fun. Looking up characters you thought were simply generic cavemen or monsters and finding they have histories you can explore and adventures you can read adds another interactive layer that takes you deeper into the mysteries and complexities of the DC virtual reality.
That at least sheds some light on what Morrison is trying to achieve in his writing and honestly, his JLA run from years ago kind of goes to great length sometimes to be clear and understandable. Now he’s trying to cram as much as he can into 7 issues while leaving out “caption-heavy explanations that bring readers ‘up to speed.’”
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