I agree about IDENTITY CRISIS, but I will say parts of it were exceedingly well written, even moving.
Really, I suspect that many murder mysteries are like this, bending logic and riddling the plot with holes for the sake of twists, turns, misdirection, and shocks.
As for HUSH, that back story might have come in handy considering, uh, what the hell was Tommy's motivation?! "I hate you because your father failed to save my parents lives!" What a twist! "And guess what? I always hated my parents!" Whoa, what a double-twi-- wait, what...?
And I agree, the art is chilling in that ending, which probably kept people from thinking about how the reveal made absolutely no sense and was a shitty treatment of the character. Much like IC, "I did it all for my husband, so he could have more time and attention for me" which is such crap... are we to believe that this woman could be so proactive, skilled, and cold-blooded to murder FUCKING GANGSTERS once a month on holidays, then inexplicably stop on New Year's for Alberto to conveniently fake his death even though she wasn't at all involved with Alberto's faked death, and just assume that Harvey took over even though Alberto confessed later to the rest of the killings which he did commit? WHAT THE FUCK?!
Not to mention the fact that this same Gilda who did all these things would sit for two months, crying and moping about Harvey being missing? Hell no. Makes no fucking sense.
I'm really proud of how I'm actually making Gilda more interesting and complex than she's ever been, even taking Loeb's ideas and turning them around on their ear.
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Really, I suspect that many murder mysteries are like this, bending logic and riddling the plot with holes for the sake of twists, turns, misdirection, and shocks.
As for HUSH, that back story might have come in handy considering, uh, what the hell was Tommy's motivation?! "I hate you because your father failed to save my parents lives!" What a twist! "And guess what? I always hated my parents!" Whoa, what a double-twi-- wait, what...?
And I agree, the art is chilling in that ending, which probably kept people from thinking about how the reveal made absolutely no sense and was a shitty treatment of the character. Much like IC, "I did it all for my husband, so he could have more time and attention for me" which is such crap... are we to believe that this woman could be so proactive, skilled, and cold-blooded to murder FUCKING GANGSTERS once a month on holidays, then inexplicably stop on New Year's for Alberto to conveniently fake his death even though she wasn't at all involved with Alberto's faked death, and just assume that Harvey took over even though Alberto confessed later to the rest of the killings which he did commit? WHAT THE FUCK?!
Not to mention the fact that this same Gilda who did all these things would sit for two months, crying and moping about Harvey being missing? Hell no. Makes no fucking sense.
I'm really proud of how I'm actually making Gilda more interesting and complex than she's ever been, even taking Loeb's ideas and turning them around on their ear.
Ugh, sorry, ranting, forgive me.