IDENTITY CRISIS MYCOMICS SERIES

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. When the spouse of a JLA member is brutally murdered, the entire super-hero community searches for the killer, fearing their own.

IDENTITY CRISIS MYCOMICS SERIES

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. as a top-notch name in science fiction comics with an electrifying tale of big tech, intrigue, clones and identity crises. The events from this issue or series are related to Identity Crisis, a crisis in themes of morality and identity for the Justice League of America, beginning when a mysterious killer starts targeting the families of heroes.

Flash, Green Arrow, Kyle Rayner (New Earth Identity Crisis 5 is an issue of the series Identity Crisis (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 2004. 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. The one thing I learned is that I'm never taking my comics anywhere near that classroom ever again. 'Chapter Five: Father's Day': In reaction to Lois Lane's death threat, the superhero community becomes significantly more aggressive in their efforts to find the killer.

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