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Identity Crisis (DC Comics) |  | Author: Brad Meltzer
Creators: Rags Morales, Joss Whedon, Michael Bair
Publisher: DC Comics
Category: Book
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Rating:  87 reviews
Sales Rank: 23581
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1401204589
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.50973
EAN: 9781401204587
ASIN: 1401204589
Publication Date: August 16, 2006
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Product Description
The most talked-about and successful DC Comics miniseries of 2004 is now available in a stunning hardcover volume!New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer delivers an all-too-human look into the lives of super-heroes and the terrible price they pay for doing good.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 87
 A good comic, but a great story September 20, 2005
riding shotgun (Washington, D.C.)
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
This story single-handedly led me to pay attention to DC's mainstream superhero fare after years of, justifiably, considering the publisher to be the stumbling dinosaur of the Marvel/DC dichotomy. Who cares about continuity when you've got a story this compelling that makes even the most dust-choked DC relics seem new and fresh and gives modern purpose to the most anachronistic of characters.
It's too early to say whether this represents a serious turning point for the publisher, but for seven edge-of-your-seat issues, Meltzer and Morales fleshed out a tale as entertaining and relevant as anything DC has ever produced.
Absolutely Terrific: Confessions of a Former DC Addict November 11, 2006
N. Bilmes (Vernon, CT United States)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I used to be a DC comic addict, and in the mid-'80s spent more than I should have buying issue after issue of all that DC and First Comics could put out. As I got older, I stopped buying the mags (I was spending my money on dates, then marriage, now kids...) and lost touch with the genre. But sometimes, while browsing in a book store, my legs would take me to the graphic novel section. My eyes would scan the titles, and from time-to-time I'd let temptation get the better of me. The Ultimate Spider-Man for instance,and the new JLA comics in particular caught my eye.
And just last month, I bought this book. I was attracted by Brad Meltzer's name on the spine. I like the guy's thrillers. They're usually mindless fun, perfect for a quick read. I thumbed through the book and liked what I saw of the art. I bought it.
And I'm glad I did.
This is one of the best graphic novels I have ever read, and it will hold a place of honor on my bookshelf, next to my Dark Knight Returns and Ultimate Spider-Man collection. This will be reread time and time again, and I'm glad I got around my aversion to buying comics again.
Engima and Mystery January 27, 2009
Patrick M. Carroll (Shanghai, China)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really, really good book. This is such a human yet mysterious story that it is tough to put down. There is everything you really want out of a book: character development, a sense of moving the DC Universe forward, great action scenes, plenty of protagonists and antagonists, great artwork, and a mystery that no one figures out until the very end. A+
Entertainment at its Best May 5, 2009
Jacob Cowell (Waterloo, IA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'll start out by letting you know that I'm huge comic fan, but not really into the DC guys that much. In fact, I don't read any of them if they don't have ties to Gotham City. However, a buddy of mine told me that if I really wanted to read a good murder mystery that I needed to check out Identity Crisis. Some of the best advice that I've ever taken (thanks to Gary, Eric, and Mike). I loved the fact that there were characters in the book who I knew (Bats, Zatana, Supes, Robin) and others that I didn't (Elongated Man, Red Tornado, Dr. Midnight etc.), but no matter what you grew to know how they interacted with each other, and grew to even feel for certain characters. Meltzer is one heck of a writer. This is the first thing that I have ever read by him, by I will have to check out some of his novels. Rags is one of my favorite artists in the industry, having grown to love his work from reading Nightwing. And of course, there are the wonderful covers by the late Michael Turner. RIP. This book is one not to miss. I would even go so far as to call it a must have.
Peace and Love,
Jake
Are heroes always heroic? January 21, 2010
Joseph P. Menta, Jr. (Philadelphia, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales' "Identity Crisis" collects the original seven-part DC Comics mini-series into an extremely engaging and entertaining superhero epic, which interestingly doesn't have all that much to do with superheroics.
What we have here is a clever and well-crafted mystery story revolving around the death of Sue Dibny, wife of Ralph Dibny, the DC hero known as The Elongated Man. The usually gentle Ralph is both devastated and angered by his wife's murder, and soon enlists the aid of his many (and better known) superhero friends to solve her murder and bring the killer to justice. Soon, the likes of the Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, etc. are on the case.
What's interesting here is that the various heroes are portrayed as flawed humans, not moral paragons. Indeed, the story purports that maybe these heroes were never all that innocent to begin with, even back in the early days when their comic book adventures were bright and cartoony and fairly kid-oriented. Maybe in this post-Watchmen comics era it isn't all that unusual to see a little darkness in our comics heroes, but true moral compromise by a big company's flagship heroes is still a pretty rare thing, and made me sit up and take notice in "Identity Crisis".
In particular, there's a flashback to an early Justice League adventure (an actual comic book story published decades ago) where a team of super villains switches minds with the Justice League, effectively taking over the bodies of the League's members. Even then, many kids must have asked, "Hey, when the bad guys were inside the bodies of the heroes, why didn't they unmask them and see who they really were?" Well, "Identity Crisis" purports that the villains did indeed do that, and that the heroes, once the villains were defeated, engaged in some pretty controversial activities (somewhat reminding me of the memorable, chilling close of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") to restore things to normal and protect their identities. Further, the story demonstrates that those activities, and similar past practices (most would say, abuses), are now tainting the way the heroes are now operating, and are maybe indirectly responsible for the murder now laid at their feet.
I didn't mind the controversial, often negative portrayal of the heroes in "Identity Crisis". This approach made them more complex and interesting to me. In any event, nothing they did was as unsavory as say, the sight of King Arthur drowning babies in the early chapters of DC's "Camelot 3000". Now THAT kept me from enjoying the rest of the book, no matter that the king later regretted his actions.
I hope that Brad Meltzer, who usually earns his living as a bestselling mystery writer, will occasionally return to the world of comics and write more stories as good as "Identity Crisis". In fact, I'm off to search Amazon to see if he already has.
In the end, if you like comics or you like mysteries, "Identity Crisis" should be quite enjoyable to you; and if you like mysteries AND comics, you should especially run right out and get it.
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