Countdown to Final Crisis #1 & The Death of the New Gods #8 - FINALLY!

The mess that is "Countdown to Final Crisis" and "The Death of the New Gods" is over. For those of you reading "The Death of the New Gods", after this final issue you should bounce over to "Countdown to Final Crisis" #2 to read the final chapter of that story. You would think that a title called "The Death of the New Gods" would end with...say...the death of one of the biggest New Gods.
"Countdown" reads like an epilogue wrapping up stories that I just didn't care about. In the end, this was a dismal failure - maybe not is sales but certainly in story telling.

Skip both when they come out in TPB...neither are good or required reading.