“I think Darkseid comes to represent all those old, ossified ideas that have lasted way past their time and won’t let go of the future. Lex Luthor is intellectual evil and the Joker is perverse evil and Darkseid, he is just cosmic evil—evil as an unstoppable idea.”
— Grant Morrison.

“Final Crisis is filled with big, final moments. I was trying to do a Jack Kirby apocalypse—to write the big final moments and the final nail in the coffin of the DC Universe was great fun. It was exactly what I wanted to do with the series.”
— Grant Morrison.