Just Who You'd Want Writing A Line Of Children's Books About Heroes!

Lest we ever forget, it's the 10th anniversary of Identity Crisis...

And I know what you're thinking: "Hey, why don't we have the same guy who wrote that tale of 'Deadly Secrets! Private Hells!' write a series of children's books about heroes?"

Well, apparently that's what some publishing executives thought:

To be fair, I haven't read any of these. But really, would we be surprised to find that they portray Mary Todd Lincoln killing Elsa Einstein in an insane bid to win back Honest Abe's love, while having Amelia Earhart brain-wipe everyone before her disappearance so they'd never know the truth about how Nikita Khrushchev raped...nah, can't go there.

I'm just saying that, based on previous experience, Brad Meltzer really doesn't know dick about heroes.

Of course, if they are good books, I can imagine some parent saying, "Jasmine really liked those books, and here's a collection of super-hero stories the same man wrote, I'll bet she'd like that OMG WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!"

So that could be fun, after all!


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Krusty of the Week Award--Brad Meltzer!!

Pretty much nothing makes my day more than seeing someone in a position of acclaim hired very specifically to create something (and usually to much publicity and fanfare), and when it turns out that people hate it, they proceed to blame somebody else. "Don't look at me--I didn't do it!!"

From JMS, who has publicly stated that every controversial Spider-Man story he did was really Marvel ediors' faults; to Bendis, who said it was the artist's fault that anyone might perceive the multiple violent S&M-tinged beatdowns of Tigra as misogynist; to the apologists for Will Pfeiffer, who excuse the dreck that was Amazons Attack as not damning becuase it was "editorially mandated." Everyone's got an excuse.

Well, this week, we've got another fine candidate. After ravishing the foundations of the DC Universe in Identity Crisis, author Brad Meltzer is coming back to script a one-shot tie-in to Final Crisis. And, 3 years later, this is what he had to say about Identity Crisis:

"Identity Crisis, for whatever it became and whatever it turned into - so much of it out of my control – is something that I think Dan ran well with it, and I’m still very proud of."

Yup, Brad...it was all DiDio's fault that the DC Universe became a hotbed for rape, brainwashing, spousal murder, etc. It was "out of your control" when you made DC heroes stop being heroes. "Dan ran well with it," you had no impact at all. Hell, you were merely standing around the DC offices one day, and they slapped your name on someone else's script. Yup.

So, for valor above and beyond in avoiding responsibility for what you've created, Brad Meltzer is the winner of this week's Krusty Award!!

Tune in next week, when he blames someone else for that JLA run...