xhonzi said:
and it's the beginning of the whole Emerald Twilight > Rebirh storyline with Green Lantern
Really? I never knew that. How does Death/Rebirth of Superman tie into Emerald Twilight?
Coast City was destroyed by the Mongul and the Cyborg Superman, and afterwards, while trying to rebuild the city with his ring, he had a mental breakdown that lead to that storyline. I always thought it was awesome that two great storylines came together like that.
In fact, I think part of the collected edition of The Return of Superman has part of a Green Lantern book in it. Yep, part of Green Lantern #46, where Hal fights Mongul, is in there. Right after that is where the breakdown starts.
They were the first to do this, and they did it right. The art was amazing, some of my favorite.
Who else has done anything like it? The closest comparison (company wide event in the mid 80s) that I can think of is Marvel's Secret Wars, but that wasn't a retcon of any parallel universes or alternate histories. And I've often seen it go unchallenged that Secret Wars was a pale imitation of CoIE, but Secret Wars started in May 1984 and CoIE didn't start until April 1985. So... huh?
Marvel recently retconned a huge chunk of stuff in the Spider-Man books. Is that what you mean? Or when the original Avengers series ended and was replaced with New Avengers... but those don't quite seem like the same thing. ?
I was just thinking of a big, crossover comic event in general, not necesarily rewriting comic history. But now that you mention it, I guess Secret Wars did come first. I've just always been a DC man myself. Mostly I was thinking how nowadays it seems like everything that happens in comics is a huge event and you have to buy like 4 books every week that all tie in to each other somehow. I'm not saying they're not good, I'm just saying it's a lot of work to keep up with what's going on, and it wasn't until the mid 80's that that trend really caught on.
Another book I forgot about (that was also one of those 'big events') is Identity Crisis. This is one of my absolute favorite storylines in all of the comics I've read - the mystery! True, it's probably better if you know all the players, but nothing a quick googling can't help.
CP3S said:
I have Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns in my trunk along with some medical and philosophy text books, as well an as espresso maker. Started on Year One a while back, but never finished it. I don't have a very good attention span for comic books; have a really hard time getting into them.
The Dark Knight Strikes Again is awesome too, and really different from his first two. The art is something else. If you're attention span lasts, read all three, they're great!