Identity Crisis.

[Kster95]

I think Identity Crisis is such a good story. You don't even need to know a lot of DC lore to understand what is going on or to find the story interesting. I think its a story regular readers can really like.

Has a lot of dark elements but really humanized the heroes, I think that is important. We see them gather for the funeral, like deaths for heroes are real too. I also love when a bunch of heroes gather for something, its great seeing so many of them in one place.

It has a great mystery story with a very shocking twist. The mystery part I think helps the average reader become interested.

Deathstroke VS JLA: Simply awesome. Really fun fight to read, Ollie gets in a great attack. Deathstroke is really dangerous with intel. It being told from Ollie's point of view was even better.

I hope it gets some sort of adaptation one day whether live action or animation. I know it heavily criticized for the rape but at the end of the day, its a story and a compelling one. I dont think DC should forget it, I think it should be known as a really good story for them.

Sets the stone for Batman creating the OMACs which leads to so much more.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I wholeheartedly agree. Hopefully some day it will at least get an adoptation in one of the animated movies. Boomerang & Papa Drake's death scene is still one of the saddest moments in comics. And I intend that as a high compliment.

 

[Gee]

I also liked Identity Crisis. I know it gets a lot of hate because of what happened to Sue, among other things.

 

[dude stannis]

I really liked it. I think it might've been a little too much. But the character work was spot on.

 

[KevanG]

All in all I liked it but the Deathstroke fight was pretty stupid though. GL and Flash should have been able to take him down in under a second, never mind the rest of them. If you look at the characters abilities then it's pretty obvious that he was severely outclassed power wise to the point where Flash could have had him disarmed in under a second, Zantanna could have magicked his ass or GL could have done pretty much anything and the others could have just sat back and watched. Besides a few other large plot holes it was alright.

 

[Lord]

Rape was used as a gimmick, Deathstroke was exagerated to the point of taking out Flash without having to even move, heroes were turned into villains, Boomerang was inserted unnecessarily, and as much as the writer wanted us to feel sorry for him, he was still a psycho who got what was coming for him, and then there's the reveal about who the murder realy was, and how it contradicts the first issue, from what was shown in the panels, to logic.

I liked it when i first read it, but going back to it, i can't realy defend it. I don't usualy like him, but Linkara actualy did a very decent review on the comic book.

 

[KevanG]

Not to mention Dr Lights new persona after that came out was pretty much Dr Rape as in they made that central to his character and all he ever ****ing talked about.

 

[Cain]

It's the perfect example of something trying too hard to be grimdark regardless of any semblances of logic and proper structure. Like DC trying to keep up with the Joneses. Regardless of decent characterization points here and there a lot of it always felt like sensationalism for sensationalism's sake and for that reason it never really clicked with me. I could see how it would hook people that are new to comic books though.

Brad Meltzer has an issue overall with his comic book writing. He could sometimes be a decent idea guy but always backs it up with faulty executions. It always seems disingenuously like he tries to throw to much at the wall in order to see what stick is what it comes across as (see also: The Tornado's Path) and not an organic form of storytelling.

 

[Arach Knight]

Identity Crisis is a book that is obviously meant to deal with some important comicbook themes that are not always explored to their logical end, including the vulnerability of heroes, the dangers of dual identities, the cconsequence of an eye for an eye, the limits of loyalty etc. Unfortunately, the execution is muddied by the use of sexual violence as a plot device, an implausible matchup between Deathstroke and thr JLA and a subsequent murder that further encorces the "girlfriend in the refridgerator" dynamic that is pervasive throughg the narrative.