Source: goodcomics.comicbookresources.com

4. ‘Storm chasers

Before I go on to another criticism, I want to call out something I really like. The creepy notes sent to the families of superheroes are really well done. Lois’s note is particularly great.

But on to the negatives.

Here, we get a scene that couldn’t be a better representation of Identity Crisis if it tried. In a pointless, mostly meaningless fight, Firestorm, alias Ronnie Raymond, and sometimes Martin Stein, but not in this case, is stabbed and explodes.

Firestorm is the quintessential ‘80s Justice Leaguer, so to see him literally cast aside like the spirit of the stories he represents is disheartening at best.

Identity Crisis is about forcibly murdering the joy of bronze age Justice League stories and replacing them with pseudo-serious “realistic” drama, and murdering Firestorm is the best way to go about doing that.

The only good thing to come out of Firestorm’s death was the introduction of Jason Rusch, but that wasn’t even in Identity Crisis.