Damn, Emerald Dawn was great. They were some of the first views I ever got of Hal Jordan, and they're a major reason I still twitch in irritation whenever someone calls Hal boring. Yeah he's boring now. He wasn't then. Same with Supes — you want to retcon out all the things that rub the wrong way and make your characters flat and boring? Fine see if I care — this is still personal canon for me. Anyway, my pull list has dwindled alarmingly and will stay that way until the fallout of Blackest Night and Brightest Day has passed, and I'm perfectly happy living in obliviousness while collecting what feels like every mainstream non-sucky DC superhero Dark Age comic in existence.
Speaking of the Dark Age — another thing that has always confused me is the vitriol people spew at the Dark Age. Because really, while independent comics were horrific then, and Marvel got slammed really hard, and pretty much all new characters introduced were made of fail, a lot of the mainstream superhero comics, at least at DC and especially fairly early post-Crisis, were actually usually damn good as long as you hammered a certain measure of cognitive dissonance into your head to factor out the variable of random intrusions of '90s excess. They were often on par with Bronze Age Marvel in depth, and didn't have the random idiocy of modern comics — even their godawful screwups *cough* Hal Jordan *cough* were whole-hog and deliberate and thought-out. Come on, am I being crazy here or is there anyone who agrees?
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Speaking of the Dark Age — another thing that has always confused me is the vitriol people spew at the Dark Age. Because really, while independent comics were horrific then, and Marvel got slammed really hard, and pretty much all new characters introduced were made of fail, a lot of the mainstream superhero comics, at least at DC and especially fairly early post-Crisis, were actually usually damn good as long as you hammered a certain measure of cognitive dissonance into your head to factor out the variable of random intrusions of '90s excess. They were often on par with Bronze Age Marvel in depth, and didn't have the random idiocy of modern comics — even their godawful screwups *cough* Hal Jordan *cough* were whole-hog and deliberate and thought-out. Come on, am I being crazy here or is there anyone who agrees?