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| | Identity Crisis - PopMatters Comic Book Review |
 | | When you pick up a comic from the '70s, '80s, or even '90s, the periods when the vast majority of today's audiences grew up on Superman, et. |
 | | Originally released as a seven-issue mini-series last year, Identity Crisis weaves together a tale of rape, violence, murder, lies, and deceit in with fantastic ideas, such as "mindwipes" and the very concept of the "superhero", into a taut, engaging, and affective tale that answers two fundamental questions of superheroes specifically and comic books generally. |
 | | With those two events, Identity Crisis brings an honest-to-God danger back into the ranks of the jokey villains of DC's Silver Age, while brining to the fore the notion of identity itself, both of the secret variety as well as what the identity is of this league of supposed heroes. |
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