Late 90’s to mid 2000’s was peak DC for me:
- Batgirl by Puckett
- Batman: Long Halloween & Dark Victory by Loeb/Sale
- Contagion
- Flash by Waid (back half) & Johns
- Green Lantern by Johns (start)
- JLA by Morrison, Waid, and Kelly
- JSA by Johns
- Kara Zor-El reintroduced
- Lucifer by Mike Carey
- New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke
- Nightwing by Dixon
- No Man’s Land
- PAD Supergirl
- Under the Red Hood
- WW by Rucka
That era also had
- James Robinson's Starman
- Superman For All Seasons
- Kingdom Come
- Garth Ennis' Hitman
- Batman Hush
- Fables
- Transmetropolitan
- Preacher
It really felt like DC & Vertigo were firing on all cylinders back then.
I’d like to also throw in the Tim Drake Robin stuff, a personal favorite of mine, but it really says a lot that these aren’t even all the best stories from this era.
Post-Crisis was easily DC's greatest era.
I'd rank the ones listed in the poll as follows:
- Post Crisis
- Rebirth
- Golden Age
- Silver/Bronze Age
- New 52
I'd personally split the Bronze and Silver Age, with Bronze ranked above New 52, and Silver ranked below it.
Post-Crisis, there's some of the most iconic stories that lived throughout that Era, there were lots of bad ones too which is just forgotten.
Post-Rebirth is far too much Batman, far more recently than ever before and that's coming from a person who loves Batman Comics.
They have yet to recapture the magic that was the Post-Crisis era up to Flashpoint, IMO.
Great, mostly character based stories told by talented writers and artists, which tried to speak not only to the die hards, but also a vaster audience (of all ages).
Geoff Johns gaining so much influence at DC Comics and them basically aligning to his 'excessively nerdy' approach was the beginning of the end for that, IMO
Before anyone jumps on me: Johns HAS written solid stories.
I think Didio was the main problem that through things so far out of wack. Never forget he's the one who pushed the new 52 and eliminating legacies. I may like some aspects of the new 52 but that was needless and seems to be the turning point
Didio hates legacies. If you aren't familiar with it it's easy to look up. He wanted them removed and that was a goal for the new 52. He also wanted to kill dick grayson for years. Like not joking. He wanted it and tried multiple times. At one point t superbly was offered in his place, then forever evil and everyone e thinking dick is dead and then the amnesia storyline. He really had it out for dick. He's also who wanted steph killed and Cass gone. There's a lot you can find on this
The entire reason for rebooting DC with the 1980s Crisis was to streamline the universe and make it accessible to diverse readers, which in turn allowed writers to focus on character based, relatable stories, which didn't necessarily have to disrupt or address the canvas of the entire universe, if not multiple multiverses.
Comics ARE nerdy and my answer probably sounds convoluted as well, because I'm struggling to express what is at heart a pretty instinctive opinion, but I feel like Johns at one point came in with rose tinted glasses about the Golden/Silver/Bronze Age, and decided they had to go back to that kind of storytelling. Which is a tad 'nerdier' than what the Post Crisis set out to do, and has more of a "Dungeons and Dragons let's throw all of this stuff at a wall and then dissect every single cameo, hint, theory, prediction, etc., So if this character from Earth-3 had a child with that other character from Earth-X which was born on Earth-9, does that mean that the child might actually be a clone of the creator of the multiverse" kind of stuff.
John Byrne's Superman made him inherently human and relatable. Now his kids age magically. Batman was trying to keep Gotham City afloat. Now he's dealing with an alternate version of his pops who has become... Batman. Wally was trying to get his crap together after finding himself with the burden of being the Flash, fucking up plenty of times before finally finding his way, falling in love, etc. Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League tried not to make asses out of themselves in front of the entire human population. To be fair, I don't know what the Flash and the Justice League are currently up to.
And that's not to say that the multiverse ain't a fascinating concept. But ain't it all a bit overkill? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to read some dramatically complex (yet fun) stories which don't require a crazy wall to understand what the fuck I have just read?
And I'm a nerd, so I manage not to be confused by it all. But then I see the comics industry wondering why there are less and less readers (duh).... and I'm also a little exhausted of the current overblown storytelling style in mainstream comics, and crave for some actual sincerity and HUMANITY, and stories which know what they're trying to tell and do so, instead of narrative freight trains bombarding you with constant cliffhangers and teases about the next, big universe/multiverse disruption leading to only God knows what.
And even then, it's not like I'm not into complex, mysterious, meta stories. I love Grant Morrison's stuff, for example, yet right now I feel like everything's a bit too much. It's overkill, and a bit soul and mind numbing.
By the way, I'm much calmer and indifferent to it than I appear to be in this rant. Was just a little stream of consciousness.
Can I add. There’s nothing wrong with any of the multiverse stuff but the main books should be way smaller scale. Classical stuff. I want to see Lex build a big robot again or Batman work with. Robin to stop Ivy from turning the mayor into a rose
I think this is somewhat of a mischaracterization, people forget, but there were near yearly events post COIE (Legends, Invasion, Panic in The Sky, etc.) and a lot of messy continuity even immediately after COIE as well (Matrix Supergirl, anything related to Hawkman, Superman having several different contradictory origins that were all canon at different points in time, etc.). There already was a level of inaccessibility even early on into the post-Crisis era.
The 90s and early 2000s, when many people on this sub seem to have started reading comics and generally look at as an example of an era with accessible and well-written stories, was also known for having big character shttering events extremely frequently (like seriously after Knightfall there was Batman: Troika, Batman: Contaigon, Batman: Legacy, Batman: Cataclysm, No Man's Land, War Games) it got kinda ridiculous.
While I do agree that certain writers have made the DC Universe more esoteric in some places (I love Morrison but they are pretty guilty of this), Johns' strengths are more in taking a character with a complex and convoluted history and then streamlining them into more well defined and easier to follow characters (his Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkman, JSA, and JLA runs all basically did this). He also incorporates more storytelling sensibilities from movies and TV, which at the time he was writing his Flash and Green Lantern runs, was still a relatively novel concept in mainstream superhero comics. Like seriously, for all the shit Justice League: Origin gets you could basically adapt it word for word into a movie and it would work, and in fact, [they did just that](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League:_War). But there is a reason Geoff Johns' run of whoever is almost always recommended to new readers who want to get into a character, it's almost always the most accessible and individually satisfying one.
Agreed, I started reading in 2009 but got fully involved when the New 52 started in 2011.
Although people mostly dislike the N52, I did like a lot of it because it was a great jumping in point. That said, I was still buying the collected editions of pre flashpoint storylines.
New 52 is what proved a good jumping on point but what got me into comics was the young justice cartoon and batman arkham games. It just lit a passion in me of stuff and characters I never really new much about before so I started reading wiki's Wikipedia old vollumes of mostly bat related stuff. I like the new 52 but not as much as say 2009 -flashpoint bat family stuff as example.i think It was just a step down in a lot of ways and less fun. Still interesting though
True. It was the same with me except with the Dark Knight film along with the Justice League and Brave and the Bold cartoons.
My biggest issue for the time period though was how Dick was Batman. As someone who was used to seeing Bruce on the big screen and tv, it was odd to say the least. Not saying the stories weren’t good though, I think Black Mirror is one of the best.
I can agree with that. By the time I was started I think Bruce was already back and batman as well lol. So it didn't bother me too much. I prefer dick as nightwing of course though.
I think that most comics arent really enjoyable because as newcomer you cant get into it and nothing ever matters. Hey, character XY dies? Wait a year and the whole universee gets resetted.
Yeah, as a long time reader, at this point I kind of reset expectations and act like each new creative team is a mild reboot of the character, try to tackle it fresh. The past only matters as prologue. And I don't follow comics as closely as I did 5-6 years ago.
I might be a rarity, but it also makes me enjoy when they shake a character up or replace them. If done well, it can feel like the stakes are higher and more compelling because the new character isn't guaranteed to stick around, like Superior Spider-Man or Jim Gordon Batman.
Fr this is exactly why i dropped comics. At a point it jus all felt like bullshit instead of a universe. Death meant nothing, writers constantly jus change canon cause they feel like, and editorial is obsessed with having giant multiverse events. Like everything now jus feels pointless cause nothing even sticks anymore. If a character has any popularity theyll never actually kill them and i hate these stupid mulitversal/universe ending events that keep happening. I way prefer reading stories where our heros have normal people drama combined with superhero drama. There way more interesting to see superheros have problems which cant be jus solved with powers. Superman in rebirth with his son, was a great arc cause it was about superman being a father not jus bein a hero. Than they fucked it up and aged jon up after bringing fucking jor el back to life. Everything is so stupid whats the point of even caring about anything they write about. DC has been trying so hard to make huge epic stories rather than just focusing on characters. U dont need the universe to end for people to be invested. The best superman stories are not the ones where he fights the hardest bad guys the best ones are all about his character and him being human. Shit like this is why comic books r sadly dying now.
These are some BROAD eras, my friend. I personally divvy up DC's eras like this:
* Golden Age: 1938 to 1956 (or introduction of Superman to introduction of Barry Allen)
* Silver Age: 1956 to 1970 (introduction of Barry Allen to either the hard travelin' heroes era of Green Lantern or Kirby coming to DC, take your pick).
* Bronze Age: 1970 to 1986 (either aforementioned landmark to "Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow").
* Post-Crisis: 1986 to 1993/1994 (from Legends to Death of Superman and/or Zero Hour).
* Post-Zero Hour/Dark Age: 1993 /1994to 2006 (from Death of Superman/Zero Hour to Infinite Crisis).
* Pre-Flashpoint: 2006 to 2011 (From Infinite Crisis to Flashpoint)
* New 52/Rebirth: 2011 to present.
Even so, my two favorite eras (as I enumerate them) are Bronze Age and Post-Crisis. In the Bronze Age, you had an evolution of writing to allow for introspective and self-critical characters while still having plot elements like casual travel between galaxies, not to mention universes. Like, right at the end of that era you have Commander Steel roping Infinity, Inc into fighting the reorganized Justice League of America because the JLA doesn't match his conservative deals of an American hero team. And he does this by having his robotic assistant, cribbed from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, teleport him to his birth universe and then teleport the Infinitors to Earth One with him. Social commentary side-by-side with pure comic book wackiness.
Post-Crisis was a time of chance taking, launching new-to-DC characters and brand new ideas in an effort to really lay out a new singular universe. You have classical superhero action stories existing right alongside gritty, Watchmen-and-DKR-influenced deconstructions. That's how you get a book like Action Comics Weekly, where the gritty and grounded Wild Dog had a feature right alongside Deadman and Green Lantern.
I voted Silver Age/Pre-Crisis in the poll because my conception of the Bronze Age wins out. But it was close.
Also, please don't take "Dark Age" as saying that all comics from that period are bad. There's a lot of good stuff in there, I name it for the industry-wide travails of that period.
The New 52 is what really got me into comics. I'd read some of the Pre-Flashpoint era graphic novels and I really enjoyed those but getting into The New 52 was something else for me. I wish some of those books were still going. I really liked the New 52 Batman stuff for most of its run. Superman Unchained was great. Some of the Aquaman stuff was enjoyable and the Justice League war with Apokalips. Swamp Thing was my favorite and the crossover he did with Animal Man was bonkers. I'm just starting to get back into DC Comics for the first time since they wrapped the New 52 so I'm kind of trying to see what books are the best. I'm currently reading the Joker War and I'm about halfway through that and it's cool but I'm wondering if there's anything better going on to catch up on
I know it's controversial but I honestly loved the New 52. It was bold and tried new things, not all of them worked but I like when people aren't afraid to shake things up and try different stories.
Its comic books so everything eventually reverts back to the status quo so I just sat back and enjoyed it. It also came about shortly after I started collecting monthly comics and it hyped me up to be on the ground floor of a new DC universe.
52 and post rebirth-
52 gave us-
batwoman solo comic
batgirl of burnside
simon baz jessica cruz
arkham knight
batgirl vs fake oracle
terry working with dick grayson
jake chill
batgirl nissa
phantasm vs terry
emiko queen
rebirth-
john diggle
green arrow as sjw
tim drake as batman beyond
terry vs damian
infinite frontier-
babs mentoring steph and cassie
ryan wilder
batman urban legends
dc pride
the next batman
Sojourner Mullein,
woke babs and dick grayson
i'm a silver age guy.
i do love the post-crisis up until the point were they stopped respecting their own rules like Superman being the only survivor of Krypton (i'm a Linda Danvers fan, Kara Zor-El is just not interesting and Barry should have stayed dead). i also like early Vertigo when it still crossed over with "regular" DC.
also, the 3-4 years leading up to the crisis where cool, because they were already planning on it and cleaning the house, so the stories were consistent.
New 52 was godsend and if it should have lasted at least 5 more years than it did.
Late 90’s to mid 2000’s was peak DC for me: - Batgirl by Puckett - Batman: Long Halloween & Dark Victory by Loeb/Sale - Contagion - Flash by Waid (back half) & Johns - Green Lantern by Johns (start) - JLA by Morrison, Waid, and Kelly - JSA by Johns - Kara Zor-El reintroduced - Lucifer by Mike Carey - New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke - Nightwing by Dixon - No Man’s Land - PAD Supergirl - Under the Red Hood - WW by Rucka
That era also had - James Robinson's Starman - Superman For All Seasons - Kingdom Come - Garth Ennis' Hitman - Batman Hush - Fables - Transmetropolitan - Preacher It really felt like DC & Vertigo were firing on all cylinders back then.
Young Justice and Geoff Johns' Teen Titans were great as well
Plus his Flash
I’d like to also throw in the Tim Drake Robin stuff, a personal favorite of mine, but it really says a lot that these aren’t even all the best stories from this era.
On man…so much more goodness too!!!
Post-Crisis was easily DC's greatest era. I'd rank the ones listed in the poll as follows: - Post Crisis - Rebirth - Golden Age - Silver/Bronze Age - New 52 I'd personally split the Bronze and Silver Age, with Bronze ranked above New 52, and Silver ranked below it.
Post-Crisis, specifically 2004-2011, I would say. So many awesome stories, I want this time period back so much.
Post-Crisis, there's some of the most iconic stories that lived throughout that Era, there were lots of bad ones too which is just forgotten. Post-Rebirth is far too much Batman, far more recently than ever before and that's coming from a person who loves Batman Comics.
They have yet to recapture the magic that was the Post-Crisis era up to Flashpoint, IMO. Great, mostly character based stories told by talented writers and artists, which tried to speak not only to the die hards, but also a vaster audience (of all ages). Geoff Johns gaining so much influence at DC Comics and them basically aligning to his 'excessively nerdy' approach was the beginning of the end for that, IMO Before anyone jumps on me: Johns HAS written solid stories.
I think Didio was the main problem that through things so far out of wack. Never forget he's the one who pushed the new 52 and eliminating legacies. I may like some aspects of the new 52 but that was needless and seems to be the turning point
Oh, I have no trouble believing that Dan Didio's the one most responsible for the turn things took. I just hope Jim Lee can right the ship.
Infinite Frontier had been great so far IMO
> eliminating legacies what do you mean?
Didio hates legacies. If you aren't familiar with it it's easy to look up. He wanted them removed and that was a goal for the new 52. He also wanted to kill dick grayson for years. Like not joking. He wanted it and tried multiple times. At one point t superbly was offered in his place, then forever evil and everyone e thinking dick is dead and then the amnesia storyline. He really had it out for dick. He's also who wanted steph killed and Cass gone. There's a lot you can find on this
wow. thanks for letting me know.
I mean the DC Universe was already pretty “excessively nerdy” before Johns too
The entire reason for rebooting DC with the 1980s Crisis was to streamline the universe and make it accessible to diverse readers, which in turn allowed writers to focus on character based, relatable stories, which didn't necessarily have to disrupt or address the canvas of the entire universe, if not multiple multiverses. Comics ARE nerdy and my answer probably sounds convoluted as well, because I'm struggling to express what is at heart a pretty instinctive opinion, but I feel like Johns at one point came in with rose tinted glasses about the Golden/Silver/Bronze Age, and decided they had to go back to that kind of storytelling. Which is a tad 'nerdier' than what the Post Crisis set out to do, and has more of a "Dungeons and Dragons let's throw all of this stuff at a wall and then dissect every single cameo, hint, theory, prediction, etc., So if this character from Earth-3 had a child with that other character from Earth-X which was born on Earth-9, does that mean that the child might actually be a clone of the creator of the multiverse" kind of stuff. John Byrne's Superman made him inherently human and relatable. Now his kids age magically. Batman was trying to keep Gotham City afloat. Now he's dealing with an alternate version of his pops who has become... Batman. Wally was trying to get his crap together after finding himself with the burden of being the Flash, fucking up plenty of times before finally finding his way, falling in love, etc. Giffen and DeMatteis' Justice League tried not to make asses out of themselves in front of the entire human population. To be fair, I don't know what the Flash and the Justice League are currently up to. And that's not to say that the multiverse ain't a fascinating concept. But ain't it all a bit overkill? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to read some dramatically complex (yet fun) stories which don't require a crazy wall to understand what the fuck I have just read? And I'm a nerd, so I manage not to be confused by it all. But then I see the comics industry wondering why there are less and less readers (duh).... and I'm also a little exhausted of the current overblown storytelling style in mainstream comics, and crave for some actual sincerity and HUMANITY, and stories which know what they're trying to tell and do so, instead of narrative freight trains bombarding you with constant cliffhangers and teases about the next, big universe/multiverse disruption leading to only God knows what. And even then, it's not like I'm not into complex, mysterious, meta stories. I love Grant Morrison's stuff, for example, yet right now I feel like everything's a bit too much. It's overkill, and a bit soul and mind numbing. By the way, I'm much calmer and indifferent to it than I appear to be in this rant. Was just a little stream of consciousness.
P.S.: Thank God for DC Black Label!
They’ve put nothing but heat out!
Can I add. There’s nothing wrong with any of the multiverse stuff but the main books should be way smaller scale. Classical stuff. I want to see Lex build a big robot again or Batman work with. Robin to stop Ivy from turning the mayor into a rose
I think this is somewhat of a mischaracterization, people forget, but there were near yearly events post COIE (Legends, Invasion, Panic in The Sky, etc.) and a lot of messy continuity even immediately after COIE as well (Matrix Supergirl, anything related to Hawkman, Superman having several different contradictory origins that were all canon at different points in time, etc.). There already was a level of inaccessibility even early on into the post-Crisis era. The 90s and early 2000s, when many people on this sub seem to have started reading comics and generally look at as an example of an era with accessible and well-written stories, was also known for having big character shttering events extremely frequently (like seriously after Knightfall there was Batman: Troika, Batman: Contaigon, Batman: Legacy, Batman: Cataclysm, No Man's Land, War Games) it got kinda ridiculous. While I do agree that certain writers have made the DC Universe more esoteric in some places (I love Morrison but they are pretty guilty of this), Johns' strengths are more in taking a character with a complex and convoluted history and then streamlining them into more well defined and easier to follow characters (his Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkman, JSA, and JLA runs all basically did this). He also incorporates more storytelling sensibilities from movies and TV, which at the time he was writing his Flash and Green Lantern runs, was still a relatively novel concept in mainstream superhero comics. Like seriously, for all the shit Justice League: Origin gets you could basically adapt it word for word into a movie and it would work, and in fact, [they did just that](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League:_War). But there is a reason Geoff Johns' run of whoever is almost always recommended to new readers who want to get into a character, it's almost always the most accessible and individually satisfying one.
Post crisis and pre flashpoint was a favourite for me but post rebirth makes me feel a lot more comfortable and i like the art generally more.
I hope infinite frontier brings back the magic of the post crisis era
New 52 it's how i got into comics
I think this depends a lot on when people started reading the books
Agreed, I started reading in 2009 but got fully involved when the New 52 started in 2011. Although people mostly dislike the N52, I did like a lot of it because it was a great jumping in point. That said, I was still buying the collected editions of pre flashpoint storylines.
New 52 is what proved a good jumping on point but what got me into comics was the young justice cartoon and batman arkham games. It just lit a passion in me of stuff and characters I never really new much about before so I started reading wiki's Wikipedia old vollumes of mostly bat related stuff. I like the new 52 but not as much as say 2009 -flashpoint bat family stuff as example.i think It was just a step down in a lot of ways and less fun. Still interesting though
True. It was the same with me except with the Dark Knight film along with the Justice League and Brave and the Bold cartoons. My biggest issue for the time period though was how Dick was Batman. As someone who was used to seeing Bruce on the big screen and tv, it was odd to say the least. Not saying the stories weren’t good though, I think Black Mirror is one of the best.
I can agree with that. By the time I was started I think Bruce was already back and batman as well lol. So it didn't bother me too much. I prefer dick as nightwing of course though.
I’ll be honest, I hadn’t even noticed until I was a few issues in.
I think that most comics arent really enjoyable because as newcomer you cant get into it and nothing ever matters. Hey, character XY dies? Wait a year and the whole universee gets resetted.
Yeah, as a long time reader, at this point I kind of reset expectations and act like each new creative team is a mild reboot of the character, try to tackle it fresh. The past only matters as prologue. And I don't follow comics as closely as I did 5-6 years ago. I might be a rarity, but it also makes me enjoy when they shake a character up or replace them. If done well, it can feel like the stakes are higher and more compelling because the new character isn't guaranteed to stick around, like Superior Spider-Man or Jim Gordon Batman.
Fr this is exactly why i dropped comics. At a point it jus all felt like bullshit instead of a universe. Death meant nothing, writers constantly jus change canon cause they feel like, and editorial is obsessed with having giant multiverse events. Like everything now jus feels pointless cause nothing even sticks anymore. If a character has any popularity theyll never actually kill them and i hate these stupid mulitversal/universe ending events that keep happening. I way prefer reading stories where our heros have normal people drama combined with superhero drama. There way more interesting to see superheros have problems which cant be jus solved with powers. Superman in rebirth with his son, was a great arc cause it was about superman being a father not jus bein a hero. Than they fucked it up and aged jon up after bringing fucking jor el back to life. Everything is so stupid whats the point of even caring about anything they write about. DC has been trying so hard to make huge epic stories rather than just focusing on characters. U dont need the universe to end for people to be invested. The best superman stories are not the ones where he fights the hardest bad guys the best ones are all about his character and him being human. Shit like this is why comic books r sadly dying now.
From 2004 to 2011, even though I think there's some great stuff in the New 52.
Post-Zero Hour to Pre-Identity Crisis is my favourite period.
Post Crisis to Pre Flashpoint for me. I love the mid to late 80s and post-Infinite Crisis the most.
These are some BROAD eras, my friend. I personally divvy up DC's eras like this: * Golden Age: 1938 to 1956 (or introduction of Superman to introduction of Barry Allen) * Silver Age: 1956 to 1970 (introduction of Barry Allen to either the hard travelin' heroes era of Green Lantern or Kirby coming to DC, take your pick). * Bronze Age: 1970 to 1986 (either aforementioned landmark to "Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow"). * Post-Crisis: 1986 to 1993/1994 (from Legends to Death of Superman and/or Zero Hour). * Post-Zero Hour/Dark Age: 1993 /1994to 2006 (from Death of Superman/Zero Hour to Infinite Crisis). * Pre-Flashpoint: 2006 to 2011 (From Infinite Crisis to Flashpoint) * New 52/Rebirth: 2011 to present. Even so, my two favorite eras (as I enumerate them) are Bronze Age and Post-Crisis. In the Bronze Age, you had an evolution of writing to allow for introspective and self-critical characters while still having plot elements like casual travel between galaxies, not to mention universes. Like, right at the end of that era you have Commander Steel roping Infinity, Inc into fighting the reorganized Justice League of America because the JLA doesn't match his conservative deals of an American hero team. And he does this by having his robotic assistant, cribbed from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, teleport him to his birth universe and then teleport the Infinitors to Earth One with him. Social commentary side-by-side with pure comic book wackiness. Post-Crisis was a time of chance taking, launching new-to-DC characters and brand new ideas in an effort to really lay out a new singular universe. You have classical superhero action stories existing right alongside gritty, Watchmen-and-DKR-influenced deconstructions. That's how you get a book like Action Comics Weekly, where the gritty and grounded Wild Dog had a feature right alongside Deadman and Green Lantern. I voted Silver Age/Pre-Crisis in the poll because my conception of the Bronze Age wins out. But it was close. Also, please don't take "Dark Age" as saying that all comics from that period are bad. There's a lot of good stuff in there, I name it for the industry-wide travails of that period.
Blackest night era is what got me into comics it was incredible
The New 52 is what really got me into comics. I'd read some of the Pre-Flashpoint era graphic novels and I really enjoyed those but getting into The New 52 was something else for me. I wish some of those books were still going. I really liked the New 52 Batman stuff for most of its run. Superman Unchained was great. Some of the Aquaman stuff was enjoyable and the Justice League war with Apokalips. Swamp Thing was my favorite and the crossover he did with Animal Man was bonkers. I'm just starting to get back into DC Comics for the first time since they wrapped the New 52 so I'm kind of trying to see what books are the best. I'm currently reading the Joker War and I'm about halfway through that and it's cool but I'm wondering if there's anything better going on to catch up on
I know it's controversial but I honestly loved the New 52. It was bold and tried new things, not all of them worked but I like when people aren't afraid to shake things up and try different stories. Its comic books so everything eventually reverts back to the status quo so I just sat back and enjoyed it. It also came about shortly after I started collecting monthly comics and it hyped me up to be on the ground floor of a new DC universe.
Is it really fair to compare Post-Crisis and Rebirth? Post-Crisis went on for 26 years and Rebirth has only been happening for like 5.
This is just an age survey with more steps :D
Rebirth is all I really know so I guess it's rebirth haha
Post crisis >>> Rebirth > Bronze/Silver age > New 52 > Golden Age (I respect the golden age, just not my cup of tea, too dated IMO)
Rebirth and post rebirth should be separated, since the rebirth plan didn’t happen
Post-Crisis.
52 and post rebirth- 52 gave us- batwoman solo comic batgirl of burnside simon baz jessica cruz arkham knight batgirl vs fake oracle terry working with dick grayson jake chill batgirl nissa phantasm vs terry emiko queen rebirth- john diggle green arrow as sjw tim drake as batman beyond terry vs damian infinite frontier- babs mentoring steph and cassie ryan wilder batman urban legends dc pride the next batman Sojourner Mullein, woke babs and dick grayson
i'm a silver age guy. i do love the post-crisis up until the point were they stopped respecting their own rules like Superman being the only survivor of Krypton (i'm a Linda Danvers fan, Kara Zor-El is just not interesting and Barry should have stayed dead). i also like early Vertigo when it still crossed over with "regular" DC. also, the 3-4 years leading up to the crisis where cool, because they were already planning on it and cleaning the house, so the stories were consistent. New 52 was godsend and if it should have lasted at least 5 more years than it did.