RedFive said:
xhonzi said:
I was really enjoying Green Lantern from Reborn -> the start of Blackest Night. Can't say I really enjoyed Blackest Night, though I did read almost all of it. I read Brightest Day 0-8 and determined to give up on it.
Do you mean Green Lantern: Rebirth?
Probably.
Cause if so I've read it too and I thought it was awesome.
I enjoyed Rebirth. As far as Green Lantern goes, I think I enjoyed the stuff betwixt the events moreso than the events themselves. Sinestro War was pretty good, but the stuff (Rage of the Red, Agent Orange, etc. storylines) that came between that and Blackest Night was most enjoyable to me.
I read it from the Death of Superman storyline, which I can't recommend highly enough. The Death of Superman graphic novel is pretty good, but The Return of Superman/Reign of the Supermen is one of my favorite graphic Novels of all time,
I quite enjoy this event myself. I didn't read any Superman for a long time after the event was over... so it didn't really make me a long time reader, but I collected some of the issues as they came out and have the trades.
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?
Of course, if you're reading DC, you should definitely read Crisis on Infinite Earths. In the late 80's DC decided to clean up their convoluted, confusing comics history with one huge, overarching storyline.
Just to offer a differing opinion: I read this a couple years back and found it pretty unwieldly for a casual DC fan. I'm not sure how convoluted and confusing DC universe was before this came out, but I found this product to be convoluted and confusing all on its own.
Of course, they ruined their cleaned up universe very shortly,
Aint that the truth. Supergirl is dead. Long live Supergirl! And Comet, her Superhorse! (That she made out with)
On a positive not, I forgot though that Barry Allen was dead from CoIE until recently. That's got to go down in the books as one of the longest sabbaticals for a major name like that. However, there doesn't seem to have been any Flash shortages in that time, so I'm not sure how much it really counts.
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. ?
But if you're interested in X-Men, then do I have a comic for you. Astonishing X-Men. [snip] it's brilliant, won some Eisner awards even. Read Whedon's run, #1-24, if you get the chance.
This I can agree on. Whedon's X-Men are really fun and aren't steeped in that much continuity- usually the barrier to reading any X-books. Parts of this run were used for the basis for X-Men 3 as well.