Identity Crisis #5 Spoilers!

Er, make that Identity Crisis #5

IT IS DONE

thank you!

o boy o boy o boy

So make with the spoilers. Those six pages amuse and annoy me with the way that Kyle continues to be a fuck-up. "There's no way that a fully-alert Kyle Rayner will.. oh bollocks".

Well, the cover says it all, doesn't it? Robin's papa gets it, I guess.

Also revealed this issue! Martian Manhunter is a woman!

Captain Boomerang, dead!

Where are there Manhunter tits?

SPOILERS AHEAD; SLIPPERY WHEN READ

I'm such a sucker - reading the last few pages, I fucking KNEW what was happening. That bastard Meltzer, suckering me in w/ all the Papa Boomerang stuff, getting together w/ his long lost son, turning a corner, while Robin & his pop have "a moment" re: what Tim needs to do. And then Tim's dad gets the gun in the shoebox, & the phone message from Boomerang, and for fuck's sake my heart started racing! DAMN YOU MELTZER! (PS - I'm really enjoying this series, Silver Age revisionary / reclamatory hoohah be damned.)

Somewhat of a crossover / foreshadowing thing - in this week's Teen Titans, the team, having gotten misplaced in time following a run-in w/ The Legion & The Fearsome Five(hundred), they find themselves up against their counterparts (of course). In THIS world (ten years in the future of the current one), however, Tim Drake is actually Batman, which of course is an alien concept to Tim, given his hesitancy or reluctance or simply his inability to grasp wanting to stew in the seedy psychological dystopia that would birth a freak like you-know-who - "What would have to happen to make me want to become Batman?" he asks himself. DAMN YOU GEOFF JOHNS! (PS - This issue of Teen Titans was pretty solid, if not very good.)

S'Alright. Captain Boomerang always comes back.

Oh god, Pete, I am laughing like a stoned hyena.

OMG I just got that! I R Stupid-Head!

It's all right, Captain Boomerang just needs to get to a hospital - quickly! DAMN YOU DRAMATIC IRONY!

Who is young Boomer's mother? Could it be... Wally West?

And goodbye to Firestorm, due to an event that will be startling to the three people reading this who've never read Kingdom Come.

It's a shame that the leaked pages are the most interesting.

David: Surely "I am / am not going to end up like that" is the driving force for every Robin. Tim pretty much admitted that he would in Young Justice five years back (I was reading it... on a dare, yeah)

Yeah, true, but it never crossed my mind.

I filled out an online survey DC sent to my inbox. It was about the Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow ads they stuffed the comics with, and I answered very harshly so as not to encourage MORE ads. If I win the autographed whatever from Brad Meltzer and whoever, one of you guys can have it.

re Firestorm: i've read Kingdom Come and have no clue what that comment meant - KC kinda went in one ear and out the other (or should that be one eye and out the other?)

The critical event in the first issue of KC, the bit which is supposed to signify "things have got out of hand" is that someone cuts a hole in an atomic super hero, and ohfuckBANG. It won't be treated as as big a deal here, obviously.

At this stage I'm perversely hoping that all these deaths are flatly ignored after the series ends.

Arrgggghhh!
So I hit the comic shop two blocks away from my apt, and they're still selling last week's comics as new releases, then I went to the big lame store downtown, and they were all out, and I fucking hate them anyway, so I came home. Made supper, did some work, watched the last half hour of an episode of the Incredible Hulk on TV (Banner was on a 747 with the King Tut exhibit and someone drugged the crew, so Banner had to land the plane himself, but the hydraulics were busted, so he need to change into the Hulk to pull the stick to keep the plane from crashing, only, once he was the Hulk, he couldn't read the dials anymore and he forgot how to stop the plane once it was on the runway! I was impresssed at how little stock footage was used) and then went way down to the south end of town to my favourite comic shop where I knew they'd still have copies, because they're not fucking morons. Except they closed at 8! Who closes at 8 on a Thursday? You're supposed to close at 9! I got there at 8:15. Damn you Incredible Hulk and your flying machine!

Got it.