The crowning achievement of Identity Crisis is, again, how it changes the tone of the DC Universe and creates situations and developments for the other DC on-going titles to address, elaborate and resolve. As a murder mystery, Identity Crisis is disappointing. But as an event that impacts the DC Universe, Identity Crisis was both necessary and notable. Read Full Review

While Ive seen the cover image for months in advance of its actual arrival, the image is still an undeniably powerful image that effectively conveys the loss of innocence that has fallen over the Justice League as a result of this miniseries. As for the interior art, Rags Morales does a solid enough job of telling the story, as while I found some of the panels were a bit overly melodramatic, with the killers Joker like smile as she explains how successful her plan was coming across as being a little too deliberate in its attempt to sell the characters madness. However, the art does an amazing job on the aftermath scenes, from the page where The Atom reacts to the enormity of what had been done in his name, to the final sequence where the Elongated Man has found a somewhat unsettling means of dealing with his loss. Read Full Review

The The crisis is over and the guilty have been caught. While the killers identity could have been more satisfying, the journey from issue #1 to issue #7 was a hell of a ride. It will be interesting to see the consequences of this play out over the next year. Read Full Review

For all this, the final issue of Identity Crisis is effective in establishing the new status quo of the DC superhero community. It is clear how the events of this series will reverberate through these heroes lives, as fundamental relationships are tested to the point of breaking. There were no big deaths, as some fans had predicted and clamored for, but the victims of this series have the potential to disrupt things to a far greater degree than the death of, say, a Green Lantern or Wonder Woman. Because Sue Dibny and Jack Drake will not return in any six-part miniseries, because they did not put their lives on the line fighting crime, because there was no sidekick waiting to fill their boots. The power of Identity Crisis was the very human sense of loss, permanent loss, in a world of gods where nothing is forever. Read Full Review

I dont want to sound too down on Identity Crisis as a whole, because the series has done some great things with the super-hero genre, remaining a classily-produced act all the way through (with it being a particular pleasure to watch Morales and Bairs artwork consistently improve by the issue) and never being less than entertaining. Unfortunately, this cant be said for the lacklustre finale. As a new DC reader, this final issue had all the potential to open me up to new characters and ongoing series, and get me interested in the DCU as a whole. Unfortunately, Meltzers conclusion hits far wide of the mark, succeeding only in wrapping up the book in name alone, leaving too much by the wayside and reverting to the status quo as much as the titles premise would let him. Having set up such an easy final punch, this final floundering can only be said to be a sorely missed opportunity. Read Full Review

I fear were supposed to see Ralph as at peace and resolved to his loss at the end of the issue. No way. What we witness instead is the mad rambling of a shock-damaged victim, woefully losing touch with reality. Meltzers jarring attempts to intrude realistic crime drama upon the meta-hero world falls flat once again, because in the DCU, we know ghosts are real. What Ralph needs is a medium, not kindly advice to just hurry his impending senility along. Calling Madame Xanadu! Save Ralph from existential despair! Conjure up the ghost of Sue before he morphs into a villain himself! Read Full Review

I don't think anyone could predict this conclusion.It is known that love can make you to do crazy things but the actions here had been a bit over the top.Anyway, this was a special story, written in realistic way and didn't follow the common superhero formula, also constitutes evidence that B-List characters can become interesting and have depth if you treat them right.Everyone played their roles and had their own journey to cross.

Such a sad and depressing comic; DC’s equivalent to Avengers Disassembled. Identity Crisis was very realistic, if there we’re superheroes in the real world I feel like something like this could happen. Jean’s motives were kind of iffy though. I find it hard to believe Brad Meltzer couldn’t come up with a better motive for Jean killing Sue and Jack.