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The ones that follow up most directly are Flash 217 (Rogues funeral for Captain Boomerang), JLA 115-119 (Crisis of Conscience), The OMAC Project miniseries, and Countdown to Infinite Crisis. When you grow up with an identity crisis, because as a child you want to be. Over the course of the story, the heroes would learn to trust each other and work together again, but not without tremendous cost. The direct ramifications of Identity Crisis are 'Trust Issues', but everything here is highly recommended. in Corazn Rural n.p.) I feared that my comics would be. After realizing Zatanna and the Justice League had erased his memories, Batman created the surveillance system Brother Eye to monitor the superhero community only to have it seized from him by Maxwell Lord.Īll of these threads would collide in the 2005 crossover event Infinite Crisis, opening with Light and Deathstroke becoming founding members of the latest Secret Society of Super-Villains while the superhero community remained deeply divided from the revelations of Identity Crisis. While imprisoned in Arkham Asylum, Jean would receive a mysterious crystal to transform into the next Eclipso and broke out to bend the Spectre to her evil will. Identity Crisis established both Light and Deathstroke as threats for even the most veteran superheroes in the DCU, no longer simply recurring antagonists for the Titans. Similarly, the plot twist that Jean had been the mastermind of Sue's murder as a desperate ploy to be reunited with Ray Palmer was criticized as was the overall somber tone and demystification of the iconic superheroes, performing actions that were decidedly unheroic - including the shocking erasure of Batman's memories when he protested what had happened to Doctor Light. Part of my interest in comics comes from a private identity crisis I wrestle with. It was created by writer Brad Meltzer and the artistic team of penciler Rags Morales and inker Michael Bair. experiment and as a launch pad to the beginning of my comics career.
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As the League battled Deathstroke and other villains working with Light, other figures close to the League were targeted, with Robin's father murdered and Jean Loring nearly hanged.Ĭontroversy arose over the overly dark manner in which Sue Dibney had been retconned as a rape and murder victim, with the character reduced to little more than a plot device for shock value. Identity Crisis is a seven-issue comic book limited series published by DC Comics from June to December in 2004. The subsequent investigation revealed that Sue had previously been raped by Doctor Light, with Zatanna and the League voting to erase the villain's memories of their secret identities, making him the more incompetent adversary for the Titans. The seven-issue miniseries had Elongated Man discover that someone had murdered his wife, leaving her burned beyond recognition, with the tragedy compounded by the fact that she had just become pregnant with their first child.
