Meltzer Brings About DC's Latest "Crisis"

Brad Meltzer gets profiled (briefly) in the Forward for his latest comic book, Identity Crisis, about which more here. I read the first issue when it came out last month, and was impressed by how completely Meltzer had carried over his book-writing style to the comics medium, as well as the levels of fanboy geekdom--I mean, it takes some doing to launch a series your publisher says will shake up the entire "universe" and center the first issue around Ralph "Elongated Man" Dibny.

I admit I am a little bit curious about just how canonical the series will actually turn out to be, as it seems to take place in a DCU that's both post-Crisis (all the heroes exist in one timeline on one Earth) and pre-Crisis (all sorts of heroes know Superman as "Clark," which I'm pretty sure hasn't been the case for years). But maybe that's just a sign of how out of the loop I ordinarily am, that the rules have changed and I haven't kept track. Though the notes in that last link indicate there's room for a lot of questions and I'm not the only one asking...