My first reaction after finishing "Identity Crisis" was "I paid 28 bucks for THAT?!" It was supposedly a much more human and realistic storyline. Sure, all down-to-earth stories involve someone shrinking down to microscopic size then burning the body with a confiscated gun from a supervillain.

My biggest complaint stems from the retconning of the JLA. Stick with me on this for awhile...

Pre-Crisis, it was established that pretty much everybody in the sateltie JLA knew all the other members' secret identities. For instance, there's that old "Brave & the Bold" where Bruce Wayne invites Barry and Iris Allen to Gotham City for a weekend of disco dancing. After the Crisis, it was established that things were..."fuzzy". Batman was portrayed as being more secretive, and not everybody in the old JLA knew who he was. You could retcon this and say "well, everybody in the old JLA knew Bruce was Batman" and I could handle that. But then we hit a problem with Tim Drake.

Obviously, Tim was NOT in the old JLA. Tim came onboard the Bat-family about 3 years after the Crisis, or roughly 1 year in comic time. The exact comic time may be fuzzy, but it's important to note that Tim WAS NOT Robin while Batman was a part of the satellite era JLA.

Also, Tim has not held a public profile of being playboy Bruce Wayne's "ward", like Dick Grayson was. Dick would often accompany Bruce to parties and was well-known around Gotham. I can't think of any public appearances where Bruce brought Tim along. Tim Drake is basically an unknown to Gotham's populace. Thus, it makes no sense why Atom, Elongated Man and all the other heroes would talk about "Tim's dad", as if they knew Tim Drake was Robin. Batman's been much more secretive since the mid 80's and it seems especially stupid that Batman would show up at a superhero picnic sometime in the last few years and say "oh yeah, ya' know that Robin kid I hang out with sometimes? His name's Tim Drake. Look him up!" Incredibly out of character for Bruce to jeopardize Tim's identity.

I thought that perhaps only the Calculator knew Tim's secret identity. I could buy that. But.. Ray Palmer and Jean Loring drop Tim's name in private, as if it's common knowledge between them.

Or...did I miss sometime really BIG recently? Did Robin unmask and announce to everybody that he's really Tim Drake? Am I being too ignorant? It seems retarded that a big plotpoint of a much-hyped series would have such a gaping hole in it. If the answer to this gripe is "ES, you douchebag...all will be revealed in Countdown and Rogue War: two new upcoming series that will re-define the DCU and everyone in it!!"..then you can imagine how pissed off I am.