*Sharon Osbourne insures this comment is out of print forever*

I rather think I covered that given the through line I established, but, hey, you want to ignore what I actually wrote in favor of using reductivist over and over again, knock yourself out.

Do lots of coke and put out albums with Mahavishnu Orchestra influenced instrumentals. Those first three Journey albums are from another planet.

Pointing out weaknesses is how criticism works, isn't it?

Not really, his work beyond those two runs-and even in Green Lantern-was constantly filled with jarring violence for the sake of having violence. I loved the hell out of the Sinestro Corps War, but by Blackest Night, a lot of his worst tendencies had taken over and the shocking violence had become a feature.

All the shit people hate now, I grew up with. 70s hard rock is my jam. Fuck the haters.

Journey was helped in the early days of MTV by a few things: first, they had music videos to play.

Billy Squier was pretty close to his sell by date when that video came along anyway. The era of solo acts in hard rock-which by the way was how Michael Bolton started-was coming to a close by then, so he was likely headed down anyway. That video, though…might as well have been a death knell.

Around here, the classic rock station actually has a healthy amount of Journey on it: most of the hits from "Wheel In The Sky" to "Separate Ways" get airplay here.

"People aren't buying these edgy, grimdark movies we're making. We need a change. What do we have?"

To each their own, lol.

I watch SHIELD with my mom-she loves the damn show, I like it despite some flaws-and we both went "YES!" in unison when the Shotgun Axe came out. Forget the who is dying arc, that was our payoff moment.

My sister used to have the same complaint about "Turn The Page" until I pointed out that it was written before Seger broke big, when he was basically a nobody outside of Michigan.

Boston's debut is damn near timeless. It took rock production a decade to catch up to what Tom Scholz was doing in his basement.

Lighten up, Francis.

I love the first one, completely unironically. The second, nothing could help, and the third, well, it was supposed to be the big finish, so everything being turned to 11 and it being long made sense.

You know, every now and again-like how beautifully the small town scenes are shot in Age of Extinction-you can see a decent film maker in Michael Bay.

I'll take one for *counts money* 30 silver!

A lot of the late 90s "This is edgy because it's Vertigo!" stuff doesn't hold up in the least. Really the only arc I've re-read that I didn't wince through most of was Until The End Of The World-that's still pretty magnificent.

I started reading Preacher around issue 18 or so, and read it without missing an issue until the Odin Quincannon arc, where, once it was done, I just got tired of it and eventually finished the book in trades. Not sure why he was not only kept in it, but moved massively forward.