shameless plea

[buggery]

My comixshop sold out of JSA #67, this week's IDENTITY CRISIS tie-in, which I hear is better read before IC #6. I can't download the JSA issue, because my computer sucks, I'm still on dialup, and also my computer sucks.

Could somebody who has read the tie-in issue summarise (or detail) the parts relevant to Identity Crisis? From my experience reading the FLASH tie-in last month, I expect it to be significant...



P.S. Thank you, DC, for failing to mention the tie-in soon enough for shops to order, or fans to request, extra copies of the issue. We all love waiting three to six weeks for those reprints.



edited to add: Also, I dreamt last night about a "Big Bang" (a la STATIC SHOCK) type event happening in Gotham, resulting in a flood of new metahumans, mass chaos, and an especially grim and unhappy Batman, who of course framed the event and its fallout in terms more like the just-ended "War Games" crossover, or Dr Benway's 23h35 24/12/14 (aka this is how you ought to've done it, DC, if you were going to fuck Gotham all up, and also your story concept bears a suspicious familiarity to somethong else I've seen...); it was fun, even if Bruce's grumpiness cast a pall over everything the others and I were accomplishing. Alas, I did not have sex with Dick.

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not a lot of plot relevance

[typhoid-mary.livejournal.com]

The whole thing is IC #1 reaction, leading up to the autopsy discovery of who murdered Sue, or at least how. In the frame of Dr. Mid-nite and Mr. Terrific doing the autopsy, Mid-nite describes how every hero is running home to family and worrying about everyone they've ever told. The Garricks are extra cute, Superman's a bit creepy with the "angry protector" shtick, and Mid-nite can't talk to Hawkman, which clues him in to Trouble in the JLA. Blackcat and Mirror Master fought, then MM assured them he wasn't responsible and mocked non-Flash villains. The follow up was the JSA after WW2, being persecuted as Un-American for refusing to take off their masks to Congress. Atom was the star, and someone with D in red on his coat was hunting him. If there ane any clues, they run pretty for under the surface.

Just in case, mentioned as seeing family are:
Green Lantern Alan
Obsidian Todd
Hourmen Rick and Rex
Hawkgirl
Sand
Speed Saunders
Powergirl? Someone who used to be Supergirl, anyway.
Flash Garrick
Star, S.T.R.I.P.E.

-Mari