Late 80s. If you're interested, it's collected in one of the volumes of "Superman: The Man of Steel."

My biggset issue as a comics reader is that I tend to float towards comics with big casts like Superman or the X-Men and then whine incessantly when my favorite characters are ignored or used poorly. It's a great way to develop friendships and not repulse everyone you know!

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I'm not a big She-Hulk guy, predominantly because I'm not really an Avengers fan at all but the way she's been sexualized over the years has always been one of my biggest barriers of entry for the character. Creators spend a lot of time claiming that it isn't a part of the character but when it shows up over and over…

Instead he's easily written two of the worst of the last decade, the first half of Grounded that he shit out before standing up and not wiping his ass and all three bits of Earth One.

To me, alien space bug just makes concrete the fanciful, goofy Green Lantern weakness into something big, dumb and punchable. It turns genuine character growth and Green Lanterns' kryptonite into something that can just be wished away and forgotten. I think making Parallax into a being works for the story Johns…

Yeah, the best issues of the series have been where he just absolutely cuts loose, headbutting guns to pieces, beating up monsters and just absolutely breaking Prometheus.

Yeah he did. It's more of a bad idea than a bad comic, because it's clear he was trying to do a Silver Age "What's Superman doing?!?" kind of story with '80s aesthetics, but it's really odd to actually see in practice.

Yeah, he's never written a good Superman story which is impressive because he's scribbled out a ton of terrible Superman stories.

Every part of that scene is the grossest thing possible.

I mean, they keep Sayd and Ganthet's relationship with Kyle kind of and I guess they sort of acknowledge that he was "The Keeper of the Light" while Hal was away, which is shitty.

I also like Hal but I particularly liked the way he was built up in the '90s as a guy who was maybe past his prime, a relic in the Corps that might not need him anymore. I would have liked to see them explore that role and in a way, I think Parallax was the way they chose to address that. It didn't work super well but…

Slott basically has to address a lot of the damage she does and violence she commits but he doesn't really go back on the sex appeal stuff, which feels like it was more of a Johns obsession anyway.

That's sort of the thing. GL Rebirth is a great comic if you've never read a Green Lantern book before. If you have, it's so obvious the disregard and genuine hatred Johns has for any comic that even implied that Hal Jordan was anything less than Space Jesus.

GL Rebirth leads to a lot of good things but it is a bad comic in every sense of the way, breaking continuity in characters to set up the idea that Hal Jordan is THE ONE TRUE LANTERN, something that the last 30 years of continuity had set up as patently untrue.

Obviously, I'm just a real big JMS fan, oh yeah, for sure.

He just really sexes her up and sort of just turns her into the regular Hulk. She's super violent and also super sexualized in a way that sort of implies he just sees her as a gender-swapped Banner. It's more uncomfortable than permanently ruinous but it clearly had an impact on the character going forward.

I think the guy in the hood is Green Arrow.

See, I think Kingdom Come has aged really poorly for the reasons you mentioned. The Easter Eggs are just an endless game of "Spot the Not Particularly Clever Reference" and I think the response to X-Force and Rob Liefeld has aged about as poorly as, well X-Force and Rob Liefeld. It's such a weirdly bitter comic, like…

This. The main thing that separates them for me is that Barry dies doing the most heroic thing he could, racing to the end of existence to save the multiverse. Hal dies keeping the sun alive in a crossover no one fucking remembers after murdering a bunch of characters everyone loves. Neither of them needed to come…