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Story by Brad Meltzer
Art by Rags Morales
Inks by Michael Bair
Colors by Alex Sinclair
Letters by Kenny Lopez
Cover Art by Michael Turner

Published by DC Comics | $3.95

Last month in this very section I predicted that the person who was revealed to be the killer in Identity Crisis #5 wasn’t actually the killer at all, rather one of many killers hired by a mastermind serial killer.

At the comic book store today some geek was talking to one of the store employees about this book — which apparently they had both already read — right in front of where it was stacked on the shelves! I had to run away to the other part of the store lest they reveal too much. I wanted to punch them both in the mouth, but then I like that place way too much to get banned for life.

Before I made my escape I heard one of them say “well, they said that the DC Universe would never be the same after this, and boy were they right…” This sentence played over and over in my head the rest of the day until I got home. What did it mean? Obviously the true killer’s identity was going to be revealed and it wasn’t going to be someone minor. Oh, no! Is it really going to be Nightwing like all the internet rumors are saying?!? My usual comic book reading routine is to read the indies first, then the Marvels, then the DCs, all of which are broken down from least anticipated to most anticipated, which for the last six months has meant that Identity Crisis has been the last book of the night to be read. Not this time. This time as soon as I got in the door I sat down and read Identity Crisis #6 right away.

And now the mastermind is revealed, and I am absolutely floored. I am in complete and utter shock. It has been a long time since a comic book has effected me this much. I felt both excitement and dread as the clues were revealed until realization hit me just as Dr. Mid-Nite and Batman (separately) figured out the identity of the serial killer, and I was stunned beyond belief.

Wow.

I will say this — it’s not Nightwing.

It’s going to be very interesting how the motivations for the killer are going to be revealed and explained. I imagine that the uproar over the identity of the killer will be only slightly less comparable to when Hal Jordan went psycho killer all those years ago. This is a major, established DC hero, folks. One who has shown no previous murderous tendencies (then again, most serial killers seem very nice on the outside). People are probably going to freak out and claim that DC has “ruined” yet another beloved character.

I’m not sure how to feel, personally. I need to mull it over some more in my head. On the one hand, this is a totally unexpected and shocking twist in a book that has heretofore delivered everything that it has promised at a very high level of craft by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales. On the other hand, the killer is one of my favorite second tier (some might argue first tier) heroes in the DCU.

Wow.

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