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Post by brutalis on Nov 17, 2016 7:53:53 GMT -5
Gimme the bronze! That was what i grew up with and my exposure to the DCU so it remains the best of times in mine old crusty eyes.
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 17, 2016 8:31:17 GMT -5
Is anyone really surprised that I chose the Original Universe (which, I should point out, is NOT synonymous with Earth-Two)?
Cei-U!
I summon my raison d'etre!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 9:07:29 GMT -5
Is anyone really surprised that I chose the Original Universe (which, I should point out, is NOT synonymous with Earth-Two)? Cei-U! I summon my raison d'etre! You've got good taste Cei-U! ... I chose that too!  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 9:15:15 GMT -5
Silver and Bronze age for me! I started reading comics in 1977, so the Bronze age shaped my love of the characters. My Dad shared his memories from reading Silver Age comics, so those eras are my favorites!
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 17, 2016 11:02:26 GMT -5
The first two categories are the same thing. That was the beauty of it. All the characters of the 1940s existed more or less intact and interacted with the characters of the Silver and Bronze ages. So you had almost 50 years with a single major continuity (with a number of weird anomalies like Bob Haney's Wildcat). So it's all the same continuity.
Nowadays, you're frequently in the position of not knowing if a favorite story from a few years ago (or even a few months ago) is part of continuity. (On the plus side, you can more easily discount awful stories like The Widening Gyre and Identity Crisis.)
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Post by berkley on Nov 17, 2016 17:42:48 GMT -5
One thing many of my favourite DC and Marvel series have in common with is that they largely operated within their own separate fictional worlds and were connected only loosely with the DCU or MU. At DC, Kirby's Fourth World, even though it first appeared in the pages of Jimmy Olsen and guest-starred Superman, was really its own thing and could have been published anywhere without any drastic alteration to the concept. Ditko's Shade the Changing Man seemed to take place in its own universe. Even the Wein/Wrightson Swamp Thing, in spite of a memorable issue featuring Batman, kept aloof from the DCU superheroics for the most part.
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Post by Pharozonk on Nov 17, 2016 17:59:05 GMT -5
I voted 1956-1985. Most of my favorite DC runs are from that time (Levitz/Giffen on Legion, Wein and Englehart on Green Lantern, Bates on Flash, the Superman team of the early 80's, etc.).
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Post by Confessor on Nov 17, 2016 19:06:19 GMT -5
I'm really not much of a DC fan, but I voted for the pre-Crisis, Bronze Age continuity because that was the era when I first encountered DC characters like Suoerman and Batman, so I have a nostalgic attachment to it. I also love the Jonah Hex comics from that period.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2016 21:40:07 GMT -5
The Silver and Bronze Age / Earth One (1956 to 1985)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 14:35:37 GMT -5
I'm really not much of a DC fan, but I voted for the pre-Crisis, Bronze Age continuity Ditto - I don't have a huge fondness for any DC era, but that the last time their continuity made any sense to me, and probably the last period where I could pick up a DC comic and not feel like they were writing it to deliberately repel me. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 18, 2016 16:33:16 GMT -5
... and probably the last period where I could pick up a DC comic and not feel like they were writing it to deliberately repel me. Hee hee. I've bought quite a few DC comics since the Crisis, but I've also put quite a few DC comics back on the rack after flipping through them or reading a few pages for reasons much like this. A few weeks ago I put the latest issue of the new Harley Quinn series back because it was repellently stupid. And I wish I had read Green Arrow #1 before buying it! The opening scene with the Black Canary was good but most of it was really bad. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 18, 2016 19:54:11 GMT -5
It's close for me between pre and post crisis, but I went with post. For all that the silver age is great fun, it's not exactly high quality alot of the time. OTOH, Most of the Wolfman/Perez Titans and alot of the best Legion stuff is before Crisis. I think if I was honest, I'd pick very mixed period era of 1978-1990 or so as my favorite  . |
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Post by Gene on Nov 19, 2016 8:12:53 GMT -5
Gotta go Post-Crisis for a few reasons.
1. Nostalgia. It's the DC I grew up reading. John Byrne's Superman was my proper introduction to the character in comics form and I'll always associate him with the characters and stories of the Triangle Era. As far as I knew, Wally West was THE Flash. Barry and Jay were just the "old guys."
2. Legacy. Combining Earths 1 and 2 (and to a lesser extent 4 and S) during Crisis gave the DCU a feeling of legacy that wasn't there before. There weren't two Flashes because two guys on two separate worlds had the same powers and came up with the same name. There were two Flashes because one generation passed the honor to the next, and the third generation of Flash took up the name when the previous died. These heroes were immortal, not because they couldn't die (they could and did), but because their names and legacies would live on forever.
3. Vertigo: The Early Years. The books that eventually became Vertigo had their roots in the Post-Crisis DCU. Animal Man. Doom Patrol. Swamp Thing (at least some of it). Even Sandman had a Martian Manhunter cameo early on. Post-Crisis DC wasn't afraid to be weird, and the result was one of the most enduring and celebrated publishing lines in comics history.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 19, 2016 22:05:02 GMT -5
Gotta go Post-Crisis for a few reasons. 1. Nostalgia. It's the DC I grew up reading. John Byrne's Superman was my proper introduction to the character in comics form and I'll always associate him with the characters and stories of the Triangle Era. As far as I knew, Wally West was THE Flash. Barry and Jay were just the "old guys." 2. Legacy. Combining Earths 1 and 2 (and to a lesser extent 4 and S) during Crisis gave the DCU a feeling of legacy that wasn't there before. There weren't two Flashes because two guys on two separate world's had the same powers and came up with the same name. There were two Flashes because one generation passed the honor to the next, and the third generation of Flash took up the name when the previous died. These heroes were immortal, not because they couldn't die (they could and did), but because their names and legacies would live on forever. 3. Vertigo: The Early Years. The books that eventually became Vertigo had their roots in the Post-Crisis DCU. Animal Man. Doom Patrol. Swamp Thing (at least some of it). Even Sandman had a Martian Manhunter cameo early on. Post-Crisis DC wasn't afraid to be weird, and the result was one of the most enduring and celebrated publishing lines in comics history. You make some good points but there was something cool about the yearly JLA/JSA meeting that vanished when everything got combined. |
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Post by Trevor on Nov 20, 2016 9:16:24 GMT -5
Haven't read the thread, so forgive me if others have said this or argued that it's nonsense, but I look at it as all one big continuity (or non-continuity, depending on my mood).
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