The Crisis crisis: At Ninth Art, Paul O'Brien looks at the rape and murder of Sue Dibny in Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis:
 
"Still, that rape scene -- it really does have problems. To be fair, it certainly isn't gratuitous. On the contrary, it's clearly a central motivation for the heroes' actions, and therefore key to the plot. But it seems ridiculously out of place for these characters. It's the Elongated Man and his wife, for heaven's sake. Even by DC standards, these are nice, shiny happy characters. There are a few second-tier characters where it would be vaguely believable to insert something like this into their back story, but this just seems absurdly out of place."