Ooooooh.

[lithera]

Identity Crisis #1 was great. The cover for three has Deathstroke on it.

The cover for four.... is here.

Mmmmmmmm.

And I'm reading solicitations for War Games. Can I mention once more that I hate Tarantula? Can I say that? Can I add in that I hope she's the character that bites it? *mutter mutter*

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[archeon.livejournal.com]

Identity Crisis... OMG... I cried for a half hour after reading that...

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I know. I know. I cried on the bus on the way home.

[c-jyd.livejournal.com]

I'm still mixed on this, and keep trying to figure out my thoughts enough to post in my own journal.
The story is amazing. Just... amazing. Very powerful, very moving. I don't cry really... over much of anything. It had me in tears. The characters are very much themselves, hard to do.

But some things /should/ be sacred, at least to me. He ruined not just Sue, but Ralph for me for all time after this story. Period.
They've been the single, one and only happy couple in comics for decades, both current continuity and otherwise. Now that's gone. Everyone else has fallen apart, had deaths, had this or that... or just had the relationship aspect never touch on their character when it was inconvenient. Ralph and Sue, for that purpose, were one character. You didn't write one without the other.
And Ralph was unique and groundbreaking in so many ways. He was the first character to not have a secret identity, and to let the super hero life really blend into who he was. And he was witty, smart, funny and a little off the wall without going overboard in a time when everyone was square-jawed solid citizens, or else written purely for comedy. In ways that he never gets credit for, he was a groundbreaking and classic character.
I want to read this story. I want to see one of DC's greatest detectives solve this mystery. And then I don't think I can ever read one of my favorite characters again. Ever. I'm not sure I'm going to want to read any more DC for a while. What has distinguished them to me for some time is that they cherished their history. They knew it, they acknowledged it, and it shaped the now.
Almost thirty fucking years of a relationship actually working in a comic book should be sacred, even if they're minor characters. And it wasn't enough.

Damn you Meltzer for writing an amazing story I can't just be upset at with any kind of consistency. I feel like they acheived their goal, and sold a story to me, beginning to end. But I think somehow DC may have just lost a lot of my long term business.

[leiden.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're reading Secret War right now but if not...oh my god. So good.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

So far I am really impressed with it, I must say.