DC's downward spiral within a decade
1 Comments Published by Avi Green on Wednesday, December 31, 2014 at 7:15 AM.
CBR contributor Augie deBlieck is one guy from the site who seems to realize why Identity Crisis was truly awful, and he said:
I would say more like VERY downhill since, but this'll do for now. I think the downward spiral of DC's quality began with Armageddon in 1991, because that's when Hank Hall of the Hawk & Dove duo was sacrificed for the sake of sales, along with the second Dove, Dawn Granger. Then, we had Emerald Twilight and Zero Hour foisted upon us, along with a few more embarrassments. But yes, Identity Crisis was what really pushed DC superhero comics into the abyss of disaster. I recently found an old post from a now inactive blog telling something I hadn't thought of before about the panels where Dr. Light rapes Sue Dibny, because the scene was already repulsive enough: it's set up with a 1st-person perspective that makes it look like a video game (Doom, Quake, Heretic and Hexen). And that only makes it look all the more skin-crawling. I wouldn't be surprised if there'd been some computer influence in Meltzer's scripting, and the contrived fight with Deathstroke - who's only in there based on image value - has traces of this too.
What DC went through in the span of more than a decade is something very grimy that'll be very hard to wash away.
It was ten years ago already that DC decided Doctor Light had to rape Sue Dibny. And it's been mostly downhill since.
— Augie De Blieck Jr. (@augiedb) December 28, 2014
I would say more like VERY downhill since, but this'll do for now. I think the downward spiral of DC's quality began with Armageddon in 1991, because that's when Hank Hall of the Hawk & Dove duo was sacrificed for the sake of sales, along with the second Dove, Dawn Granger. Then, we had Emerald Twilight and Zero Hour foisted upon us, along with a few more embarrassments. But yes, Identity Crisis was what really pushed DC superhero comics into the abyss of disaster. I recently found an old post from a now inactive blog telling something I hadn't thought of before about the panels where Dr. Light rapes Sue Dibny, because the scene was already repulsive enough: it's set up with a 1st-person perspective that makes it look like a video game (Doom, Quake, Heretic and Hexen). And that only makes it look all the more skin-crawling. I wouldn't be surprised if there'd been some computer influence in Meltzer's scripting, and the contrived fight with Deathstroke - who's only in there based on image value - has traces of this too.
What DC went through in the span of more than a decade is something very grimy that'll be very hard to wash away.
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Wasn't the Armageddon ending fiasco because somebody leaked who was originally behind/beneath Monarch's armor?