One of darkest and best DC comics I've ever read.The death of an hero's wife.The death of ideals.The death of a dream.This and much more in this amazing murder mistery tale, and the ending is going to shock you for good. Twice.Never read about Elongated Man before buying this hardback in a comics-buying-rampage at a convention here in Rome last month, but in a few pages the author made me love poor Ralph and Sue (ok, she was another DC "woman in refrigerator" plot-device like Kyle Rayner/Green L...

This book came highly recommended (thanks, Rachel), and now I can see why!What has always been a key feature of the Supers, particularly of the DC Comics variety? Maintaining those pesky secret identities, of course! so when the wife of a long-serving Justice Leaguer is found murdered, our heroes go into overdrive wondering whose loved one might be next to be targeted.Brad Meltzer also writes those wordy things called, em, novels so the scripting could have suffered from being overly wordy, but

Bullet Review:Very decent. I saw in a friend's review that it felt a lot like Watchmen, and I concur. For whatever reason, all the elements worked for me; in particular, I grew really fond of Green Arrow/Ollie. It's also overdramatic and pretentious as hell, but there's worse out there.

"I chose this life. I know what I'm doing.And on any given day, I could stop doing it.Today, however, isn't that day.And tomorrow won't be either." - Bruce Wayne aka BatmanThe DC universe has seen it's fair share of world changing crises: big cosmic threats that will affect the universe forever. But Identity Crisis is different because although it does have major consequences for the comic universe, it isn't a cosmic event in the slightest, but an event that's much more personal than

Law and Order: Justice LeagueSo, this has a wonderful start. Like an extremely memorable start because it reminds me of the start of a good one shot crime thriller. It pulled me in, used a narrative that was compelling and it set up an interesting plot. Unfortunately, it kind of went downhill for me once we really got into Dr. Light's possible motives.I'll get into a bit of why I hate sexual assault as a plot device further in because I told myself not to let that affect my rating. So,The Good:-...

You just know when the first page is literally everyone crying that you made a terrible decision. Luckily however it is a really good read and worth the emotional trauma and you totally get pulled into the story straight away. It's pretty much packed with a shit ton of characters as they try to figure out who is targeting their relatives. I could have done with a little more Aquaman because i felt like everyone else got a say and had their little 'it's my turn to play detective now' but Arthur a...

Do you remember 2015's Viral image that broke the Internet?*Blue and Black for me*Identity crisis is the graphic novel equivalent of THE dress. I went through rating & reviews of my GR friends and there was scarcely any 3-star review! It's either five or four (Majority, like Blue and Black) and then straight to one or two!Well, that's odd! Premise Remember Elongated man (AKA Ralph Dibny) of Justice League? No? Well, neither do anyone. Let's just say he is revised and reintroduced in Identity

Solid story and a personal favorite! I bought this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able to make a better overall review.This TPB edition collects "Identity Crisis" #1-7.Creative Team:Writer: Brad MeltzerIllustrator: Rags MoralesCovers: Michael Turner HOW FAR YOU'LL GO TO PROTECT YOUR SECRETS? Superheroes (at least many of them) depend of the privacy of their secret identities, but some time to time, it's unavoidable that some supervillain would find out

This is one of my favorites, and (to me) it still holds up after multiple re-readings.Word of warning: People seem to either love it or hate it.Obviously, I'm in the Love It! section, but that doesn't necessarily mean you will. How many of you out there know who Elongated Man is? Better yet, of those of you who know, how many of you care what happens to him? Thought so. Well, if you read Identity Crisis, you will find yourself caring not only about him but his wife, Sue, as well. As it turns out...

"I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. On any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be, either." -- the thoughts of Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. BatmanComic book writer Gerry Conway (who has worked for both DC and Marvel, and on such notable characters including Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Punisher) was quoted in a 2020 online interview that often the intended target audience age for the standard comic book stories roughly falls between nine to...

Elongated Man's wife is murdered and the search for her killer opens up a whole can of worms involving super-villains having their memories erased.The best comics are the ones that are about something. Starman is about stepping into your father's shoes. Sandman is about stories. The Watchmen is about how power corrupts. This one is a mystery that raises a lot of ethical questions. Meltzer's writing is really good and Rags Morales's art is the perfect fit. Having Green Arrow being one of the main...

This book just sucked the life and joy out of me while i was reading it... i like dark but that's halloween dark... the fun stuff... but this comic book was just not that dark but a drag. Did they try to make a more realistic story ? may be this was the goal... ? as far as realistic goes, all the realist writers put great amount of humor in their books 'cause life has humor in it and they don't want you to feel terrible when you read their book... but this book had no humor... it was straight ou...

The event that changed the DC universe for years. Yes, it is a murder mystery. Longtime Justice League member Elongated Man's wife, Sue, is brutally murdered setting off a chain of revelations that just keep coming. It becomes the impetus for all the events leading up to Infinite Crisis, while shattering the Justice League. Meltzer does such a fine job of keeping the tension high while rolling out gut punch after gut punch. Rags Morales gives the book a bit of a retro feel with his character mod...