More spoiler-free talk about Identity Crisis (the who-bites-it, not the whodunit)

[buggery]

Back on Wednesday, I posted a guess I hoped was wrong about who might die in Identity Crisis, on my way out to the comixshop to pick up my copy of #1. There's only speculation in it, but it IS of a (remotely) possibly spoilery nature, so it's not for those avoiding all semblance of spoilers. (Me, I just don't want the hard spoilers; the ones that give me just enough to make me wonder, like what's in the solicit copy, are something else again.) Anyway, that post is here. People have been good so far about not spoiling anything in the comments, and I'll try to screen any that are spoilery as soon as possible after they go up.

There's no concrete spoilers in this post, either, but as it contains quotes from an interview with IC's author, Brad Meltzer, I'm cutting for spoilers again.

I know now who died in the first issue. Not anyone I would've guessed. (And I hopelessly misidentified the guy at the far left on the cover, but I see now that that was probably intentional on Michael Turner's part.)

My guess may not have been that far wrong, though...

From this PULSE.com interview with Brad Meltzer (no more spoilers in the interview itself than in this post, but the comments on the interview are rife with loud, bald spoilers) -- thanks to miss_porcupine for pointing me to the interview:

THE PULSE: How did you decide which characters would live or die?

MELTZER: I just asked. Can I kill Kyle? No? Okay, what about J'onn? Once they knew what I was up to, Dan and Mike gave me the list of "expendable" characters. It's longer than you think.

...So his head may not be off the chopping block, after all.

::resumes nail-biting::

Not my pretty green alien woobie...

Thanks to everyone who's refrained from posting spoilery comments on these deliberately spoiler-free entries, and please, keep that up.

Comments

[chicago-h.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction when I saw the interview. Where's the "no" after J'onn? DC doesn't give a fig for what I think, but all the same, I will be VERY upset if they off my green guy.

[miss-porcupine.livejournal.com]

I took that as an implied "no". Just from Meltzer's semantics, it felt like a "no" even before he said that he didn't want to touch the big names. The additional 'even if they kill [those two "huge" characters] off, they're not staying dead'... I didn't think J'onn was one of them.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

I hope you're right.