The Case Against Identity Crisis
Until a few days ago, I was pretty sold on Idenity Crisis' brilliance. But after reading this, I'm having seconds thoughts. I'll wait until the arc ends, however, before I come to a complete verdict on it.
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January 2007: Sweet fancy Moses, Alex got engaged! Also, alphabet.
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Grrr. See my response to Asa's post about Spider-Man for my basic reaction.
My favorite bit was where he bemoaned the end of comedy in comics with the events of Identity Crisis. As if the only comical detective that could ever exist in comics is Ralph Dibny. Clearly he perceives the entire sandbox to be Marvel and DC's current existing characters and that's it. Oooh, I hate that.
I'm sorry, folks, but if you have this sort of slavish devotion to corporate-owned characters who exist for 50-plus years, you're going to have to accept that sooner or later they're going to do something that will piss you off. I've yet to read a criticism of Identity Crisis that takes issue with it as a story unto itself. "Oh, it's too dark for me. I don't want to see my characters handled this way." Yeah, but is it good?
I think his most interesting point is in the first IC column where he asks if this is perhaps the death knell of superhero comics. We can only hope. Kill All Superheroes is my new motto. If I ran the world, any title that wasn't started within the last five years would be cancelled. We'd all be better off, I promise.
I just don't understand why there can't be both. Silver age-y superheros and gritty superheroes. Comics for kids and comics for adults. And some for all ages. What's so fucking hard to understand?
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