Alright class. Raise your hand if you've heard the name Brad Meltzer. Yes, Bobby that's good. Alyssa, fantastic. Frank? You didn't raise your hand...why?!?!
Ok, ok. I'll give you stalwarts a break, sort of. You see, Brad Meltzer penned what some might consider the single greatest Justice League story ever comitted to page. That story is entitled 'Identity Crisis'. If you've not read it, you should consider yourself a slacker by comicdoms standards. Please go read that trade before continuing...
Done? No...really...read that fucker before you attempt this... We'll wait.
Alright...here goes...
In chapter four of the bible, Cain slays his brother Abel. However, the bible has nary a mention of the weapon used by Cain to kill Abel...
In 1932 Mitchell Siegel is slain by three gunshots to the chest. After Mitchell's death, his son Jerry dreamed of a man stronger than a locomotive. A man who could leap buildings in a single bound. A man faster than (and completely impervious to) a speeding bullet...a Superman!
The gun used to kill Mitchell remains undiscovered until a man named Cal Harper discovers his long lost father shot and left for dead in a park. The bullet matching the ones left in Mitchell Siegels body nearly 75 years earlier...
These three fragments...partially fact, partially fiction, start off the tremendous work of Brad Meltzer's novel The Book Of Lies.
If that lead-in isn't enough to get you interested in the book...you probably need someone to change your diapers.
Now that you've been wiped...go read this book. It reads like a crime thriller-family drama-conspiracy theory-spiritual explorarion mixed with the origin of the greatest super-hero ever concieved.
Tyler
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