Don’t hold back. Tell us what you really thought.
“…an event book like Identity Crisis points to an identity crisis at work at DC itself—one that it would do well to resolve before it alienates everyone by promising everything and satisfactorily delivering nothing.” Jeff Lester, The Savage Critic.
“On the Savage Critic Scale, it gets a CRAP, as well as the PICK OF THE WEAK for this week. In fact, though we have 2 more ship weeks to go, I think I can safely take the position that IDENTITY CRISIS was the worst comic of the entire year.” Brian Hibbs, The Savage Critic.
“This, combined with recent events in JSA has tainted the DCU for me as a reader. It’s so dark with no sense of wonder or joy. Outside of the silver-age throwback New Frontier, I can’t think of a wholly positive experience I’ve had with the any of the superhero titles.” BeaucoupKevin.
“I’ve read comics series that started promisingly, then devolved into sludge before they were over. I’ve read some that got better as the series progressed, and ended satisfactorily. I’ve read some that were just bad from start to finish. But I can’t recall very many that started so promisingly, kept my interest throughout, then completely crashed and burned like this one.” Johnny Bacardi.
“This is absurd. This is obscene. And the much ballyhooed “darkening of the DC Universe” that will follow this (because Christ knows we need to make mainstream comics less fun these days) is being predicated on an essential lie.” Websnark.com.
“It took me less than ten mintues to pull out each issue and do a quick check to see how well the versions of the incident matched up—or, I wondered, if they even did in their significant particulars (this being a mystery, and that being our key crime scene). They don’t. They differ in key elements—that’s CRAP WRITING for a murder mystery.” George Grattan, rec.arts.comics.dc.universe.
“There are strong character-driven bits to be found here as well that make me want to see past the weaknesses in the plot, but I just don’t get all of the way there.” Don MacPherson, The Fourth Rail.
“A flurry of milksop emotional scenes doesn’t make up for an empty and aimless exercise in sullying the reputations of DC’s premier super friends.” Shawn Hill, Silver Bullet Comics.
Lengthy discussions are underway at Howling Curmudgeons and The V, too.