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Identity Crisis #4 - Heap your praise here!!!!!

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deathlok

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This issue wasn't as jaw-dropping as the first 3 issues. Yet it needed to keep the story rolling, so it was a good read.

 

Still the best title out right now. thumbsup2.gif

 

Spoiler question: I thought they said in the first issue that the killer didn't teleport into the homes. Yet in issue 4 they mention teleportation as a possible means of entry. ?

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Darthdiesel

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Who indeed. No spoiler yet, but man is that last pannel ominous.

 

Yeah but you had a feeling Lois would be next and isn't she dead in one of the superman issues this month (Action?) - she's out on assignment covering the war in Umec, some generic MiddleEastern country, and she gets shot...I still have to read if she's dead or not confused-smiley-013.gif

 

although Identity Crisis 'continutiy' places her back in Metropolis? WTF? Is Identity crisis tying into any recent storylines of current DC titles? JLA? Action? My head hurts...

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Yeah but you had a feeling Lois would be next and isn't she dead in one of the superman issues this month (Action?) - she's out on assignment covering the war in Umec, some generic MiddleEastern country, and she gets shot...I still have to read if she's dead or not

 

although Identity Crisis 'continutiy' places her back in Metropolis? WTF? Is Identity crisis tying into any recent storylines of current DC titles? JLA? Action? My head hurts...

 

Continuity in all of the Superman books is currently SNAFU'd. Each has it's own timeline and appear to be grounded in different realities. For example, she's been dead a year in SUPERMAN.

 

So I don't think what's happening in any of those books has any real bearing on the events portrayed in Identity Crisis.

 

Gee, I wonder who that is crying over his dead loved one on the cover of IC #5?

 

Who benefits? Well the League is looking at the Suicide Squad, right? But Batman says they are barking up the wrong tree, the Squad doesn't benefit.

 

What's all the stuff with Digger (Boomerang) about? Well he was a mainstay of the old Suicide Squad team. He just seems to want to know his son, but there has to be a connection unless his son is also a target. So far the killer hasn't been after villains and their families... yet.

 

Remember Luthor's armor in #1? Remember Luthor saying something about a Crisis at the end of Superman/Batman?

 

Could be Lex... but that would be kind of obvious.

 

Recall that the shadow of the killer hiding behind Jean Loring's door was pretty big.

 

Based on what we've seen so far, the killer would have to know the modus operandi of the villains (such as Dr. Light, Slipknot, etc.) to fake their methods, as well as know where they are, and what they've been up to and be able to throw the heroes on the wrong trails.

 

This person also has to have ties to the heroic community to know their history and be able to find out their secrets, which means access to their systems and intelligence, as well as the confidence of certain members as well. Perhaps even to the information collected by the DEO, which is still led by Mr. Bones (formerly of Infinity, Inc.).

 

 

MY CANDIDATE FOR THE KILLER IS:

(SWIPE THE SPACE BELOW TO SEE WHO I THINK IT IS)

 

 

 

AMANDA WALLER

 

She has seen all the ups and downs of government, beginning her rise with the original Suicide Squad and growing to vast power before being thrown in jail. She made her recovery, though, and was a member of Luthor's presidential cabinet while he was in power. According to the information I found online she's still a member of President Peter Ross' cabinet.

 

Think about it:

 

She has access to the intelligence community, to government agencies, and has ties within the villain community.

 

Waller has snapped before.

 

She has been working with Lex Luthor in the past, and may be still working with him. This may be part of a plan they hatched back when she was invited to join his cabinet and she may have been told (or suggested) to find a way to destroy the morale of the heroic community by hitting them where it hurts: at home.

 

There are ties to the killings with the Suicide Squad, but Batman doesn't see any specific ties between any of it's members as none of them benefit. Waller isn't connected to the Squad any longer, or the DEO, or Checkmate - except as Secretary for Meta-Human affairs she has access to all of their resources. She's an intelligent player and a key power player.

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I think it may have been hatched by someone else, but this person is using their connections to put things into play while they still can (remember an election is looming in the DCU this year as well).

Speaking of elections, who is the current president in the DCU. After that whole thing in Superman/Batman where Lex goes crazy, did someone take over for him?

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Yeah but you had a feeling Lois would be next and isn't she dead in one of the superman issues this month (Action?) - she's out on assignment covering the war in Umec, some generic MiddleEastern country, and she gets shot...I still have to read if she's dead or not confused-smiley-013.gif

 

although Identity Crisis 'continutiy' places her back in Metropolis? WTF? Is Identity crisis tying into any recent storylines of current DC titles? JLA? Action? My head hurts...

 

It's just DC trying to be more like Marvel. insane.gif

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Yeah but you had a feeling Lois would be next and isn't she dead in one of the superman issues this month (Action?) - she's out on assignment covering the war in Umec, some generic MiddleEastern country, and she gets shot...I still have to read if she's dead or not

 

although Identity Crisis 'continutiy' places her back in Metropolis? WTF? Is Identity crisis tying into any recent storylines of current DC titles? JLA? Action? My head hurts...

 

Continuity in all of the Superman books is currently SNAFU'd. Each has it's own timeline and appear to be grounded in different realities. For example, she's been dead a year in SUPERMAN.

 

The Azz/Lee story is set a year in the future, and is being told in flashback so theoretically they can get away with the fact that in the other books she's not yet missing.

 

It still makes my head hurt.

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"Suicide Watch" from Superman Secret Files 2004 starts by filling in the backstory on how it is that Pete Ross came to be selected by Lex Luthor as the Vice President. Now a full President after Luthor's decent into insanity (see Superman/Batman #1-6) Ross has the support of a lot of the country. At least among the voters. But there are those in shadowy places that now feel Pete needs to learn his actual place. As two Secret Service agents escort President Ross to the Oval Office, Ross is taken aback to find someone already at his desk--Sarge Steel, of Checkmate. He wants Ross to back off the witch hunts--i.e., to stop digging into the black ops that his agency carries out, no doubt. He leaves behind a chess pawn, with Amanda Waller's fingerprints all over it.

 

Ross gives the pawn to Superman, he meets Lois on a rooftop and identifies the pawn with Amanda Waller's fingertips. Superman surmises that Sarge Steel wants Superman to be led to Waller, because she's become a pawn. And pawns, Superman notes, are expendable.

 

Waller is behind bars, in protective custody, pending charges of treason in the wake of the Luthor scandal.

 

At the jail, a man in a suit advises Amanda Waller to take a deal. A group of villains bust in, members of her Suicide Squad--Killer Shark, Killer Frost, Double Down and Captain Boomerang--show up in full force at Belle Reve, you're not really certain if they are there to break her out or kill her: They freeze and kill two cops, and attack Waller.

 

Capt. Boomerang: "This is a real ripper, eh? Usually we're all gazin' at you on the other side of these bars. You tell us we can make a deal in exchange for a few services. In exchange for damnin' our souls so you blokes don't have to damn your own."

 

Waller: "Don't try to intimidate me, Boomer-Butt. You're a Grade A loser and you'll always be a loser. From what I hear, even the Rogues aren't returning your phone calls."

 

Capt. Boomerang: "They've been busy."

 

Superman arrives on the scene and takes them all out, despite Double Down's magical card tricks.

 

Waller kicks Captain Boomerang in the crotch.

 

Meanwhile, a blond man sets a Sarge Steel mask and glove on a table, talking to shadowy figures. Steel has been removed, they rejoice, and Waller will rejoin them when they find out what they're up against.

 

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