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Identity crisis mycomics8/19/2023 Wonder Woman aka Diana Prince, Part Time Private Eye, Full Time Martial. I'm giving you a complete answer because I'm following this list myself right now, and this is how I would want the question answered. ago Honestly, that's a loaded question because Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, and 52 indirectly instigate most of the major 2000s storylines. Things like Dr.Light's behavior or Jean's behavior are what I think a valid complaint, although, I simply didn't care at the time, because I barely knew these characters or. 9 comments Best Add a Comment Vinootils 6 yr. Either way you slice it, the following fifteen comic book superheroes have suffered from some serious identity crises. Family has been consistently one thing that will get superheroes doing things they would normally never do, Identity Crisis didn't invent that nor will be the last using it. Other times it is a result of writers trying to shake things up (aka increase sales). Now that it's out in bookshelf-ready format, I'm just here to let you know if it's any good or not. Sometimes it is a warning sign to something much more serious. The book began as a Kickstarter, crowd-funded endeavor, and has been serialized digitally, but its now finally available in a graphic novel format from NBM Publishing, which is how I first encountered and read it, because despite having shared a hometown with Naraghi and Bowman for about 10 years - the same town that Minoo is headed to for grad school in the story, by the way - and always wanting to support the local (or, in my case, the formerly local) scene, I am old-fashioned and prefer to read my comics on paper.įellow Robot 6 contributor Brigid Alverson interviewed Naraghi about the book in December, so if you'd like to read more about its genesis, you can check out the article. Is modern Minoo dreaming of ancient Minoo? Does one become the other? Are Naraghi and Bowman merely dramatizing the tension of a daily identity crisis in a place like Iran in the 21st century by literalizing it?īoth storylines are engaging and well-executed, but the broad appeal of sword fights, magic and monsters is almost always a welcome addition to a comic book, even that half seems so much less relevant than the story of a young woman trying to be a young woman in a country where that can seem almost impossible, a country always in the news now, and, like so much of the region around it, perhaps poised for a massive, generational change. The other Minoo is a college student making her way through modern-day Iran, her only companion her liberal but protective college-professor father, who's been struggling for years to change his country's repressive culture from within, while his family has longed to escape it for a better life.īoth set out on very different quests by book's end the ancient Minoo to the capital Persepolis at the words of a dying priest to play a role in the battle against Ahriman, the modern Minoo to graduate school in the United States.Īs for their relationship, the modern Minoo delighted in adventure stories as a little girl, and her father is a professor of history, trying to preserve Persian culture from the ruling class trying to "Islamicize" portions of it away with religious propaganda.
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