I'm loving this Infinite Crisis thing. I recently read the collected storyline where Blue Beetle dies...and I liked it. It was appropriate, it was sad, and it did affect people. (Possibly is still affecting people; I'm not sure.) Wonder Woman's murder of Maxell Lord, again with the appropriate, again with teh ramifications, again with teh having to deal with it.
But before this...Jason Todd was the big black hole in the Bat-family. Everyone knew about his death, everyone had feelings about it, and it's still affecting them years upon years down the line. Bats is still screwed up about it, Tim still has it in the back of his head, and I'm fairly certain Nightwing still feels occassionally that if he hadn't given up being Robin, Jason wouldn't have died. But no one else (except maybe, just maybe, Hal Jordan) had that kind of effect in the DC universe. Which is why I'm kind of ticked that Jason and Hal are back; their deaths changed people, like deaths do. That shouldn't be screwed with.
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Date: 2006-01-22 05:46 pm (UTC)But before this...Jason Todd was the big black hole in the Bat-family. Everyone knew about his death, everyone had feelings about it, and it's still affecting them years upon years down the line. Bats is still screwed up about it, Tim still has it in the back of his head, and I'm fairly certain Nightwing still feels occassionally that if he hadn't given up being Robin, Jason wouldn't have died. But no one else (except maybe, just maybe, Hal Jordan) had that kind of effect in the DC universe. Which is why I'm kind of ticked that Jason and Hal are back; their deaths changed people, like deaths do. That shouldn't be screwed with.