IDENTITY CRISIS: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Hardcover Overview | Tragedy Strikes DC's Heroes!
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Today I do an overview of the series that launched the Infinite Crisis era of DC: Identity Crisis: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Hardcover from DC Comics. Let me know if you read this series.
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The buzz when this was coming out monthly was amazing. I’ve never thought the murderer reveal worked, but the story is fun to read and the artwork is great.
Agreed. People could not wait to read the next issue each month.
This sold incredibly well, too, to the point where DC had to keep reprinting until they decided on "Final Printing" editions.
Even the subsequent printings had wonderful covers, and I was all in!
DC needs to do a Justice league omnibus by Brad Meltzer and include this story in it.
Just get the 2 deluxe editions
I'm currently reading back in the 1970s and it's wild to see how comics evolved.
As a crime story, this book is a grim masterpiec;, raw, and real.
Best Deathstroke scene ever in this
Out of continuity, I like his brief appearance more in injustice. But yeah here is pretty cool.
This story REALLY Hit hard. Just Omar's initial overview made me have to make sure no one was cutting onions in the room. Have never understood the people that thought this was "edgy" This was an incredible moment in comics history as it was so, so moving.
It’s kind of hard to remember but outside a little Batman and a little Spider-man this might have been the first comic event I read from start to finish. I loved it then, and love it now
This event affected the dc universe for almost a decade. Villains would be talking about what happened in almost every book. People may not like this story but it’s very important to all the stories afterwards.
Jajaja This is the guy slammin' Dark Web! That will have impact for years to come.
@@elvaquerovaquero5243 dark web sucked, poorly written all the way through and will have little effect on the marvel universe in 6 months from now let alone years.
One day I walked into a comic book shop and asked the guy what would he recommend. He showed me this book. It was in a hardcover. When I started to read it I couldn’t put it down. Great artwork and and an amazing story.
Loved the story because I grew up with the satellite years JLA and seeing them again was really nostalgic. Really dark but cool and story and art were both amazing. Brad did borrow a lot from Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme story with the memory wipe stuff and other things.
Still got the comics. Still read them now and again. Love the story. One of those ideas that was so obvious but no one ever did it before. I didn't like what happened with Ray Palmer's wife being a crazy killer but I don't think I was supposed to. It shook things up!
This was my first comic. I love this story so much
Great book. This got me back into DC comics. Like reading Watchman or the boys. This book has a lot of emotion and great art. Set the stage for infinite crisis. A book that really moved dc comics focuses for the adult reader.
It is like disassembled for marvel. Sets the stage for so many good comics over the next 10 years.
This is de facto DC’s civil war. It definitely aged very well than many other stories.
I totally get the controversy here and I do think that almost definitely we don't need storylines revolving around superhero r*pe in main line DC comics.
Basically it's just a massive can of worms. If you open it once, they're all going to come wriggling out. Why wouldn't this r*pe concern feature in nearly every comic book? Next thing you know DC Comics is going to read like The Boys. We can't have that.
All that being said (besides the overall conception of this story being questionable, and the sexual politics being questionable) I think it was actually *written well* in terms of the fact that it's exciting, the dialogue is sharp, the action is good, and you want to know what's going to happen next. Most of the art is great.
You're not alone there. DC went too far. Ralph and Sue were a happily married couple in DC for at least 40 years. Why do so many modern writers think they have to "shake things up?" If you want edgy stories, go to read the modern comics.
@@earlsmith7428 🤝 I might disagree with you a bit there, with no disrespect intended to you...
I don't have a problem with shaking things up, it's boring to have everything stay the same in comics all the time. You want to break up the Dibnys, go ahead. And overall I appreciated the modern tone of this book.
I'm specifically questioning the use of r*pe as a plot device in superhero stories.
It's too big a can of worms, I mean let's face it, If there were super villains in the real world, of course many would constantly be committing r*pe.
But too much of that would just get absolutely horrific and disgusting to the audience very quickly. Once one supervillains start r*ping, why wouldn't every other story involve that? We don't want to read about Wonder Woman getting r*ped by Dr Psycho, and I don't need to get into the billion reasons why that's a bad road to start down.
I give the editors at DC a lot of credit for refusing to allow this same plot element to be used again.
@@xposhboyx I understand what you're saying. "Identity Crisis" started us further down a slippery slope that I really wish DC hadn't started. It may have been a success financially, but it continued a trend towards realism that bothers me. I understand what you're saying about "its' boring to have everything stay the same in comics all the time." But I . . . . . . I guess I don't like change. Didn't care for John Byrne's re-interpretation of Superman (though I read it), didn't care for Batman getting darker and darker over the years. I prefer the Adam West version. It seems to me that the easy thing for entertainment writers to do these days when it comes to couples (is to break em up). And it gets tiresome. Look what happened to Sue and Ralph, the seventies Katar Holl and Hawkgirl, Ray and Jean Loring Aquaman and Mera (for awhile). When I read Identity Crisis twenty years, I loved the art, and references to the satellite era, but I hated the tragedies which happened to Ralph and Ray. It was just too much. OK. those are my opinions.
Thank you for the great overview, Omar, especially being fair about it although other videos gave me the distinct impression that this is one of your least favorite DC events. I haven't read the story yet, but from what I've heard from all kinds of sources, including you now, this is a really good preparation for Infinite Crisis, which I haven't read yet either, although the omnibus sits on my shelf ready to rumble.
So yes, I've pre-ordered this Deluxe Edition, and I'm looking forward to receiving it this month.
Identity Crisis is one of the greatest series by DC. That panel depicting Elongated Man melting when he sees his dead wife is a tear jerker.
If it was an out of continuity Elseworlds story, i would mind it less. Oh sure, even in isolation, this story has some major issues but it would be less damaging if it outside of the main continuity.
This was the first series where I discovered how dangerous Deathstroke is.
Idk, personally I like this story. There's FAR worse in my opinion. It reminds me of the days when good writers were allowed to be creative and go kinda nutz. As opposed to most comics now that seem way too safe and repetitive as hell.
The JLA and Flash follow-ups lifted this event in my mind
GLAD I HAVE IT ORDERED!!!
I know that this gets a lot of hate, but I quite enjoyed Identity Crisis.
It is ok I think they had one interesting idea but did not quite nail the execution😊
@@BLACKLODGEREVIEWSit’s definitely a good book when you’re a teenager.
Same here. Recently did a re- read and it is still as awesome as it was back then
I never heard of this event. I want to buy this one. Thank Omar for your overview!
I would not say I am a fan of the story but not for the quality and as it was coming out I did think it was exciting. The ending was heart breaking.💔 and I bought the absolute.
Nope. Never liked it. Especially the Encyclopaedia Brown style reveal. "How could you know that? Unless YOU'RE the murderer?" Disappointing to say the least. Honestly it was the beginning of the end of DC for me.
Omar you should do an old reader new reader on Identity Crisis. I'm curious of others thoughts on the mini series.
We did about five years ago. :) I still feel the same: :)
The first comic event I read and could not wait for each issue. Still my favorite and I think the best comics story I have read. For me, that is down to the emotion of the story. It seemed so sophisticated compared to other comics. Brad Meltzer is always who I have credited for that, him being a novelist. I wished he would have done more comics work, esp for DC.
nice plug voice
Damn good looking book.
Ok. Can anybody tell me if some of the events of Identity Crisis were reconnect afterwards? Didn't Ralph die afterwards? And weren't both deaths undone? Three
Sorry, I meant to say "retconned" rather than "reconnect."
I'm not sure why I hear so much hate about this story. I thought it was great.
Glued binding?! BLASPHEMOUS!!!!
I remember Wizard pushing this series hard which compelled me to try it out. I was relatively new to the DC universe at the time, so at first I didn’t mind this story. But when I started reading more of the silver and Bronze Age DC books, I came to understand how terrible this series is. It’s the DC version of Avengers Disassembled.
Identity spices
Oh right, this is that horrible rape story. Definitely should have lead with a trigger warning 💜
I HATE this story. What a miserable, mean-spirited waste of ink and paper.
It's aged badly and it was absolute fucking dogshit when it came out
Not as much as you
If I could wipe any comic from existence it would be Identity Crisis. Arguably I've read worse but none of those are as cancerous to an entire publishing line as this book. DC has never really recovered from it's bad influence. It's just a deeply vile book with no actual substance. It's emotional manipulations are cheap and clumsy. The big mystery is stupid. It's attempt at shock are adolescent and eye rolling. It's drenched in crass misogyny. It's insistence that actually the silly/funny old dc comics were actually grim serious business is cringe. And that deathstroke fight is embarrassing fanboy nonsense. Everyone involved or talking about how great it is should be embarrassed.
In your opinion
@@Zolerous what a dumb response to real critique for stupid toxic comic
@@jamesmoore1278 what’s really dumb is making blanket statements like ‘everybody talking about how great this is should be embarrassed’. Speak for yourself not others.
It’s edge lord fan fiction trash. The book absolutely hates women and the ending even doubles down on that. They removed the intro by Joss Whedon which is a shame since he was the perfect guy to write the intro for a book that hates women as much as Identity Crisis does. It’s like they took women in refrigerators and doubled down.
The worst comic DC has ever released.