[ SECRET POST #2828 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2828 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Wakfu]


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03.
[rupaul's drag race]


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04.
[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]


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05.
[3-2-1 Contact: The Time Team]


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06.
[Anna Popplewell, Reign]


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07.
[The Strain]


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08.
[Justice League]


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09.
[Louisa May Alcott's Little Women]

















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 034 secrets from Secret Submission Post #404.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[dethtoll]

The sad irony of this is that there were a LOT of good comics in that era and some of those changes I think are for the better.

I know a lot of people were angry with DC for turning Hal Jordan into a villain and disappearing him for a few years, but let's be real here -- he was NEVER interesting prior to Emerald Twilight. Apparently Parallax gave him a personality. I like him much, much more now -- he's flawed, human, prone to hubris and major mistakes, and is not well-liked by a lot of people, but he keeps going.

A lot of people like to hold up 1990s Batman as an example of the Dork Age so let me counter that with some good stories: Cataclysm/No Man's Land, Knightfall*, Contagion and Legacy, several arcs in Legends of the Dark Knight (Grant Morrison's Gothic is a good example,) the list goes on.

* Yes, yes, I know, Azrael's costume is ridiculous, but I still hold to the theory that Azrael's raison d'etre as psychopathic 90s anti-hero was to make a point to readers who were asking for a more contemporary, post-Miller version of Batman.

Other good things from the "Dark Age" -- Ron Marz' run on Green Lantern (the Kyle era) is either really awesome or really awful depending on how butthurt you were over Emerald Twilight. I personally think it's great, and I like to cite issue #95 in particular as a great single-issue story that reminds me of the best in 1960s/70s sci-fi. Grant Morrison's JLA is just amazing -- especially "Rock of Ages" which feels like practice for one of my favourite DC events ever, Final Crisis. And Garth Ennis' Hitman is, from start to finish, one of the best, funniest, most goofily violent but incredibly heartwarming and heartbreaking comics I've ever read.

It's not all bad. A lot of those changes you mentioned were reverted or tweaked long before the 2011 reboot. (Does anyone remember Bloodlines? No? That's because every single character created by that early-90s shitshow is dead, and other than a couple good ones that stuck around for a while, like Tommy Monaghan, they often only showed up to get killed off. I think Infinite Crisis cleaned the last of them out.)