One dead, another secret, a dangerous villain than anyone ever thought, a horrible act, hundreds of suspects, guilty one .... Here are the elements that have made Identity Crisis (Crisis Identity) one of the most impressive series of DC Universe, the series that the network did release smoke for months, the series that got the lay press, the so-called serious press, to speak of her, the series say that the road leading causes Infinite Crisis. The series, therefore, we generated a single, logical question: It really is worth or are we to another crossover with a lot of noise and pocas nueces? Una historia pequeña que se hizo muy, muy grande
Si he de ser sincero pienso que Crisis de identidad está sobredimensionada. No por su nivel de calidad, sino porque sinmplemente Crisis de Identidad es en realidad una historia pequeña, casi intimista si atendemos a su conclusión. Su vinculación con la Crisis Infinita es, prácticamente tangencial, y su influencia, a priori, sólo se nota en la trama que se desarrolla en la limited Villains United , una trama que, si bien tiene un potencial más que envidiable, no es más que un argumento secundario de todos los que se entremezclan to create Infinite Crisis. But they come with the same confidence with which I can say that I can ensure that Identity Crisis miniseries is that has influenced the DC Universe from Crisis on Infinite Earths . "Contradictory? No, rather paradoxical.
Identity Crisis is not just a story of police led to the comic book superhero, change the layers and the powers of plates and guns and the result is practically the same. It's a small story where superheroes suffer a decline that affects them emotionally and rush in droves to the streets to ask questions, to press sources, and find the culprit pay what he has done, just like when black genre novels kill a cop in a troubled neighborhood. In fact, the miniseries operates mainly as police series, the human side of heroes, like the death of a member of the superhero community reminiscent of some of their own mortality, and how their work affects their relations with their loved ones. Even the pace of the series is itself a detective serial, the plot moves to the beat of disclosures that left the tracks are encountered by researchers, as readers are eliminated suspects.
The formula for success
Take the aforementioned scheme, a scheme that has repeatedly demonstrated its effectiveness in literature, film and television. And now replaced by superheroes protagonists change to Grissom on duty for Batman, Green Arrow put where the cop used to traipsing the streets and break the rules if necessary, put Superman where are the honest cop who believes in the system and can not see beyond what the rules dictate. Do you see the potential? For now shifts to the suspects (the drug addict who was passing by, the cop informer, the evil criminal) and put in place all you can think villains of the DCU. Put Deathstroke, Captain Boomerang, You understand ....¿ Luthor now why the network did not stop for months to develop twisted theories to explain what was happening there? Identity Crisis
was at its premiere in the U.S. on a whole serial of intrigue, which made you want to read the next issue as soon as possible, quite an achievement in an era in which the stories are lengthened or shortened to fit into a TPB. A serial that managed to keep the plot for a long time and created high expectations, so how it usually happens in these cases, the resolution was not to everyone's taste, is that if you have all the pantheon of heroes and villains of the Universe DC makes history to earn interest and original sound, too makes people expect things from you like a big final confrontation or be angry about how you have treated their favorite characters.
The real strength of Identity Crisis
But we said before Identity Crisis is probably one of the series has greater impact in regard to the DC Universe, and do not say both The most surprising revelation in the series (a blur, and importance, until now the immaculate record of the Justice League of America), but the change brought the series to see how the heroes and villains the UDC.
We said in our first article DC Universe is the product of a simpler time, heroes who are almost gods not uncombed, and brightly colored uniforms would be ridiculous in real life. UDC is also full of villains absurd names, go to the blog of Jotace if not believe me, garish costumes and powers seem more ridiculous still. Many fans liked Marvel radicals to joke with people like Mr. Banjo, Captain Nazi, Crazy Quilt (literally crazy quilt or blanket) or Mr. Mind and Monster Society of Evil. But that changed after Identity Crisis and the real contribution of the miniseries, Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales is to convert DC Universe in a hinóspito, where the heroes suffer and die for doing their job, and where it is clear that if someone is dumb enough to wear a yellow uniform and become a supervillain is because most likely have a mental disorder it becomes a more dangerous psychopath.
The upside is that this has been achieved in an almost masterful, avoiding the characters turn into violent psychopaths with big guns (to year 90), but with a perfect balance between classic superhero genre and approaches complex developed from the 80's, as if suddenly you found out those simple stories of the Golden Age were the official version of a more complex history of the parts have been removed to the now suddenly you have access.
The downside is that this approach has been progressively extended to the entire DC Universe, which has cost not only the elimination of lines of humorous cartoons that were part of the tradition of the UDC, but a kind of cruelty with a lot of these comics to which they seem to deny the work of not only its value but its very existence (itself and the legacy they left the DC Universe.)
A brief note on the issue
Identity Crisis is not a crossover to use, in fact not even officially a crossover , but a mini-series whose success led to DC to try to get everything out that could tie-ins with they played, or extended, tangential issues the main plot of the series, which are also essential in understanding the story (in any case the other way around as it is easier for the buyer of a series affected by these tie in be forced to buy identity crisis a DVD of the miniseries to be forced to buy the tie in ).
Spain has announced its publication in three issues (two doubles and one triple expected edited formats Ultimate magazine, or at least its size) that removes part of the fun of the series (the anguish every month to find out who the murderer). But if we consider that when we follow the USA series would have paid more because the pace was faster, and that the Internet is full of spoilers of this series that came out in 2004 in the USA, does not seem bad decision by Metro for publication (about the size and utter when they see me.)
